Month: August 2018

Wine ‘splainin is surely as old as wine itself, or, if not quite, then at least as old as wine whose source could not be taken for granted by the person … <span class="entry-title-primary">Wine ‘Splainin</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">Must wine always have a spokesperson?</span>Read more

What do an ideal cup of coffee and an ideal glass of wine have in common?  To answer that question allow me to introduce Giorgio Milos (above), master barista for the … <span class="entry-title-primary">The Right Beans</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">What wine drinkers can learn from a proper cup of joe</span>Read more

Emile Zola’s 1873 novel Le Ventre de Paris (The Belly of Paris) opens with a pre-dawn parade of horse-drawn carts laden with produce making their way into the city’s public food … <span class="entry-title-primary">Wine and the City</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">What makes connoisseurship possible?</span>Read more