Most premium wine is consumed before it hits peak quality. Estimates suggest upward of 90% of wine in the U.S. is opened within a week
Category: Wine Culture
Yarrow vs. Beckett on Wine and Food Pairing
Well, thankfully, it wasn’t exactly the Hatfields and McCoys, but there was some heat generated in the Decanter-hosted debate between wine/food pairing expert Fiona Beckett
Wine and Music: 5 Classic Pairings
The thing I miss most about no longer doing wine reviews on this blog is the wine and music pairing that accompanied each review. The
Will AI Generate the Rebirth of Wine Traditions?
In her article “Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Make French Wine Anymore,” Josephine de La Bruyère chronicles the plight of French winemakers, many of whom
If Wine is Poetry in a Glass, Then Writing About It Must Be Poetry on the Page
Wine resists language. It slips through the mesh of vocabulary, defying even the most finely woven nets of metaphor, reference, and sensory notation. We reach
A Glass Against the Machine
There’s something tragicomic about the fact that wine consumption is declining just as we need it most. Here we are, deep in the decadent delirium