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
Category: Wine Culture
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
In Praise of the Wandering Palate
This essay entitled “The Wine Drinker as Flâneur” by Jason Wilson is the most pleasurable piece of wine writing I’ve encountered in quite a while.
Jefford’s Stinker about Minerality
I have great admiration for Andrew Jefford. His columns are invariably insightful, thoughtful, and well written. Or at least that used to be the case.
Wine Without Context is Wine Half-Tasted
In wine circles, blind tasting is treated as a kind of moral high ground. You conceal the label, obscure the origin, hide the grape and
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 