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.
Category: Wine Culture
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
Fraud in Bordeaux
It just may be that the most storied wines in the history of civilization are about to take a tragic fall worthy of Shakespeare. I”m
Does Two-Buck Chuck Suck?
Jeff Siegel, The Wine Curmudgeon, is incensed. Two-Buck Chuck, the wine that Trader Joe’s sells for $2.49, won three Gold Medals last week in California
San Diego Wine Society: A Study of Aged Wines
The most pleasurable aspect of wine is unknown to most consumers—the extraordinary complexity and beauty of wine that has been aged to maturity. Wines that
Wine Talk is About Communication, Not Objectivity or Accuracy
When wine is mentioned in the news (outside the columns of regularly-featured wine writers) the topic is all too often the unreliability of wine reviews.
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 