When I talk about wine tasting to people who seldom drink wine, they often say they just don’t have the sensitive palate required to enjoy
Drinking Barolo is Like Reading Joyce
Last night I had the opportunity to taste, side by side, a wine sourced from the famed Cannubi Vineyard in Barolo and a Barolo Normale,
Wine Review: Dow’s Late Bottled Vintage Porto 2016
If you think of Ruby Port as a sweetish, dense, unpleasantly heavy wine, this LBV from Dow will disabuse you of that notion. This is
Great Wines and Transcendence
I greatly admire Eric Asimov’s wine writing, but his recent column in the New York Times about what makes a great wine badly misses the
Terroir Reflects Culture as Well as Geography
Andrew Jefford’s recent post reports on his disorientation at encountering a Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux from Chateau Le Rey sold in a slope-shouldered bottle instead
You’ll Taste Raspberry and Vanilla with Just a Hint of Arrogance
Is it weird or helpful when servers and sommeliers tell you what a wine tastes like? Norm Roby thinks it’s creepy: I also found it
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 