Etna’s wines have earned comparisons to Burgundy — not for their flavor, which belongs entirely to the volcano, but for the precision of a classification system that maps each lava flow to a distinct wine. An introduction to the contrada revolution.
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In November 2010, a small festival opened in Riebeek Kasteel, a wheat-and-wine village ninety minutes north of Cape Town. There…
A geologist with a four-pound rock hammer stands on a south-facing terrace above the Mosel and brings the head down…
At Romanée-Conti, the most-priced vineyard on earth, the cellar team buries cow horns packed with manure across the monopole each…
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…