Blake Gray wonders why Americans don’t drink wine with food: Yesterday I had lunch in St. Helena, in the heart of Napa Valley. A couple
Tag: wine tasting
Sweet Reason
Here is a little mental misdirection for a Thursday. If you drink aged dessert wines you’ve probably noticed that as a wine ages it seems
In Defense of Tasting Notes
Every summer, it seems, the wine blogosphere contracts a case of morose self-reflection and finds some esoteric issue to endlessly fret about—the objectivity of wine
The Taste of Words
I found this intriguing question from Jonell Galloway of The Rambling Epicure in my facebook feed recently: “Can words truly express all the sensations you
Bored With Fruit
Patrick Comiskey at Lucky Peach is reporting an incipient revolution in California winemaking. No doubt, in California we love our fruit: In modern winemaking, fussily
First Prize: Dumbest Wine Article Ever
People say a lot of inane things about wine on the Internets, most of which I just try to ignore. This one is just so
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 