In a Kakheti cellar in spring, after the floor has been swept and the room cooled to the year’s working…
Wine Education
On a Tuesday morning in November, in the small print-out of the by-the-glass list that lives on a clipboard behind…
On a morning in early 1961, somebody at the Institut National des Appellations d’Origine opened a copy of Sud Ouest…
Two bottles on a wine-shop shelf in November of 2025, both white Burgundy, both Chardonnay, both bottled by Maison Louis…
A host pours a magnum of Champagne into a wide-bellied crystal decanter and sets it on the table to “let…
Turn a bottle of imported wine over and look at the back, just above the legally required Surgeon General warning.…
On January 11, 2024, Karen MacNeil published a short dispatch on WineSpeed under a deliberately flat headline: Bye Bye Big…
A geologist with a four-pound rock hammer stands on a south-facing terrace above the Mosel and brings the head down…
The ribeye arrives well-marbled and rested, and the diner who has read enough to know better than to default to…
It is nine in the morning at a fine-dining house in a mid-sized American city, and the person who runs…