The patient at the headache clinic could drink a vodka soda without consequence. Whisky was fine. Gin was fine. Two…
Two glasses sit on a tasting bench, both Assyrtiko, both from the 2022 vintage. The one on the left is…
A dry-farmed vine in its third leaf is not, on the surface, a sympathetic object. The canopy is sparser than…
Riedel sells thirty-plus varietal glasses. A 2015 Tokyo sniff-cam study and 2001 research show how many wine glass shapes actually matter.
Whole-cluster fermentation is Pinot Noir’s most consequential cellar decision: stems in or stems out, no third option. What the technique really delivers.
Vin jaune is France’s most misunderstood premium white: Savagnin aged six years under a veil of yeast in the Jura, with the 620ml clavelin proving the loss.
Cover crops in vineyards sequester up to four times the carbon of typical cropland. The science, the trade-offs, and what leading regions now require.
The math is not arbitrary, the multiplier is not uniform, and the second-cheapest bottle is not the trap. How sommeliers actually build restaurant wine markup.
In the autumn of 2001, Michel Chapoutier walked into a concrete workshop on the eastern edge of Burgundy and asked…
In a private cellar somewhere in Southern California, a magnum of Domaine Georges Roumier Bonnes-Mares 1923 sat on a rack…
