Fining agents like egg white, casein, and isinglass are designed to leave — but new EU rules force the residues onto the label, giving vegan wine a nudge no activist lobbied for.
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In a Jura cellar, no one tops up the barrels. That refusal is why sommeliers worldwide are now pouring Savagnin and Vin Jaune.
Regenerative viticulture is rewriting vineyard economics from the soil up. At Tablas Creek and across California, fewer clusters per vine are delivering higher profits, raising a question the industry cannot ignore.
Wine tells you less about its contents than orange juice. The EU now mandates full ingredient disclosure. The United States has not followed, and the gap is widening.
Clipped to a board on the wall of a small Loire cellar, the addition log for a single cuvée of…
In a Kakheti cellar in spring, after the floor has been swept and the room cooled to the year’s working…
The patient at the headache clinic could drink a vodka soda without consequence. Whisky was fine. Gin was fine. Two…
The crown cap is the tell. Lift a bottle of pétillant naturel out of an ice bucket and what stares…