Sharp disagreements among wine experts about the virtues of a particular wine are common. One critic thinks a wine is flabby and disjoint; the other thinks
Category: Wine Culture
What Can Music Tell Us about Wine?
Now that food and wine pairings have become standard fare, we need something else to puzzle and fret over when preparing a dinner—and we scribblers
Buyer Beware
Every wine consumer should read this post by Jeff Siegel, otherwise known as The Wine Curmudgeon. He reviews a wine, Downton Abbey Claret ($17), that
Wine, Enchantment and the Art of Performance
My reconnection with an Artesa Pinot Noir–the wine responsible for my “aha” moment when I recognized wine could be extraordinary–got me thinking about how we
A Sommelier Argues Himself Out of a Job
I feel for the restaurant sommelier. Vilified for being snobbish and condescending, and blamed for making wine too intimidating for the uninitiated, in this world
Stuck in Lodi With Lots of Good Wine
If you think of Lodi at all you probably remember it as that place in which John Fogerty was stuck, again. If you’re a wine
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 