This is not your standard bottom shelf Chianti. It’s a riper, darker-fruited Chianti, with some raisin notes and a layer of milk chocolate–but also plenty
Author: Dwight Furrow
Wine, food, and travel writing, philosophy, aesthetics
Misleading Headline Case #692
NPR that bastion of objective reporting published the following headline on the Salt for a story that ran on All Things Considered as well: “How
Wine Review: Engracia Saint Laurent Carneros 2014
Saint Laurent is a grape you probably have never heard of unless you travel to Eastern Europe. I first encountered it in Prague last summer
Wine Aesthetics and Commerce: An Uneasy Blend
Wine is an aesthetic object as worthy of our sustained attention as works of art or the wonders of nature. Yet wine aesthetics occupies a
Budget Wine: Mulderbosch Chenin Blanc Steen Op Hout 2015
A shy nose if you’re looking for fruit. There is passion fruit and some apple but the intensity comes from matchstick and grass aromas. The
A Vision for Our Times
Was the Nobel committee prescient, their choice as apt as Patti Smith’s wordlessness? Oh, what did you see, my darling young one? I saw a
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 