Month: August 2013

I suppose that when the people I once worked for — Nick, Maureen, David and Liz — were traveling together in Italy and noodling the idea of opening a wineshop together … <span class="entry-title-primary">Containing ourselves</br></span> <span class="entry-subtitle">The ceramic revolution and the invention of moderation</span>Read more

For wine’s chattering classes no subject is more captivating than the elements that make one varietally-similar wine distinguishable from another. Plant a chardonnay vine in the Sierra Foothills of California and … It’s the little things that count</br>Read more

THE GREAT RUBE GOLDBERG wasn’t an inventor, he was a cartoonist. The insanely clever, laughably complicated chain-of-events machines (string, J, fires pistol, K.  Shot scares monkey, L, forcing razor, N, onto egg, O)  that … Shot scares monkey</br>Read more