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
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Wine Econ for Dummies
If you’re not one to stay up on forecasting trends and the technical jargon of macroeconomics well maybe you should be! Just kidding. Life is
On Cheap Chianti Culture
For those who think wine doesn’t express meanings or function as a symbol, Maggie Hennessy’s article in VinePair “The Timeless Charm of Cheap Chianti” will
The Right Way to Describe a Wine
Robert Joseph asks Can We Ever Develop a Universal Language of Wine? The short answer is no. The language needed to convey what a wine
Saving Time
In The Art of Eating, celebrated food writer M.F.K. Fisher wrote “an evening killed is murder of a kind, criminal like any disease, and like
French Wine: The New Culture
For anyone interested in French wine or French culture, Jon Bonné’s new book “The New French Wine: Redefining the World’s Greatest Wine Culture,” sounds like
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 