The recent stunning report that Cheval Blanc and Ausone will no longer bother with the Saint-Emilion classification system is good news. As Don Kavanagh exclaims
Tag: wine business
A Tragedy in the Making
If the threat of fire isn’t enough to put you off winemaking, how about the threat of fire and no insurance? Esther Mobley reports that,
Natural Wine and the Exploitation of Labor
In general, it’s complicated to mix aesthetics and ethics. Some great works of art were created by assholes and worse. Caravaggio was a murderer. Gaugin
The Wine Bots are Coming for Your Subjectivity
In the wine world we love our categories. We divide wines by varietal or region. We distinguish conventional wines from natural wines, alcoholic fruit bombs
Buyer Beware!
Veteran blogger Alder Yarrow recently completed a survey of wines from Napa’s new blood–producers who joined the Napa Valley Vintner’s Association during the past 5
Why Wine Lovers Are Not an Elite
Tom Wark’s post “Time to Embrace the Elitist Character of the Wine Drinker” makes several crucial points that I wholeheartedly endorse: I want to suggest
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 