My Twitter feed has been lit up for several days since Oliver Styles posted his rant against the Wine Spectator’s James Molesworth—the topic of course
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Ego Bodegas is a relatively new winery founded in 2011, with few resources but a burning desire to make money. Their marketing story is refreshingly
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At Wine Searcher, winemaker and writer Oliver Styles eviscerates the Wine Spectator’s Senior Editor James Molesworth for his apparent dogmatic attitude towards natural wine. There
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I have just arrived in Michigan for my first taste of Michigan wine. While provisioning from the local supermarket I came across this bottle as
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New York Times wine columnist Eric Asimov has been rolling out the advice lately for how wine reviewing ought to change. In a series of
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Wine is about continuous variation–differences between regions, varietals, vineyards, winemaking styles, weather and climate variation, soil variation, bottle variation. Wine enthusiasts devote most of their
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