Wine is not just a beverage; it is a powerful literary metaphor used for centuries to refer to everything from love to blood to prosperity.
Author: Dwight Furrow
Wine, food, and travel writing, philosophy, aesthetics
Marchetti Verdecchio Dei Castelli di Jesi Classico 2011
Some wines are easy to fall in love with; others require a little getting used to. This Verdecchio from Marches on the Eastern coast of
Amuse Bouche
News from the world of food and wine that you might have missed this week. Even booze loses freshness when kept too long. Fusion food
Who’s Buying Expensive Wine?
Joe Roberts, AKA 1WineDude, and ultra-premium wine marketers everywhere, want to know. The question is prompted by some interesting statistics from Thomas Stanley’s Stop Acting
The Beauty of Edible Things
Last week I linked to Michael Rosen’s brief discussion of beauty at Guilded Birds. Rosen writes that beauty is the promise of happiness. GB So
2005 Tormaresca Masseria Maìme Negroamaro Salento
Sometimes a wine is just a beverage. Sometimes it is a world. This wine plunges me into the world of a Hemingway novel, a world
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 