“Drink what you like” is a common refrain among wine professionals giving advice to budding wine enthusiasts. It is advice of questionable value. The problem
Category: Wine Culture
Stories and Social Media Time Wasters
I’ve been banging on about wine stories a lot the last few months, wondering whether they can really be the key to sustaining interest in
A Fight Worth Having?
In a world threatened by climate change and the insidious emergence of fascism within democratic governments, today I came across an issue that certainly “trumps”
Drinking Liquid Poetry
I recently argued that wine writers face a daunting task. Their main job is to describe the individuality and distinctiveness of a wine. These dimensions
Defending the Wine Critics
It’s fashionable to criticize wine critics for a variety of sins: they’re biased, their scores don’t mean anything, and their jargon is unintelligible according to
A $300 Sagrantino?
W. Blake Gray reports that Arnaldo-Caprai, the winery largely responsible for putting the grape Sagrantino and the Umbrian region of Montefalco on the wine map,
