The first time a wine chemist isolated the molecule responsible for the green-pepper aroma in Cabernet Franc, the gas chromatograph…
Loire Valley
Clipped to a board on the wall of a small Loire cellar, the addition log for a single cuvée of…
On a Tuesday morning in November, in the small print-out of the by-the-glass list that lives on a clipboard behind…
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.
The crown cap is the tell. Lift a bottle of pétillant naturel out of an ice bucket and what stares…
The white soils of Chablis are not soil in any ordinary sense. Pick up a handful of the chalky marl…