Month: February 2019

Though it’s widely assumed that the juice of red grapes is red, and that of white grapes runs clear, in fact, with rare exception, nearly all wine grapes express juice that … <span class="entry-title-primary">You Gotta Have Skin</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">It's what keeps your insides in</span>Read more

Birds gotta fly, vines gotta climb. It’s the way of things, and for most of the history of winemaking, it proved convenient to give domesticated grapevines the opportunity to do what … <span class="entry-title-primary">At the Corner of Elm and Vine</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">Wine doesn't grow on trees. Or does it?</span>Read more

Millions of wine drinkers rely on tasting notes provided by professional critics to guide their wine-buying.  Recently there’s been quite a bit written that’s skeptical about just how reliable such notes … Have We Met?Read more

 Winemakers with property on the steep hillsides that overlook Germany’s Mosel River between Trier and Koblenz enjoy a worldwide market for their cooly aromatic, austerely-structured white wines. The road to success … Marx on WineRead more

The bold adventurers who first landed on the shores of what they thought of as the New World didn’t come alone. The newcomers brought horses and pigs to the Americas, and … <span class="entry-title-primary">The Little Bug That Could . . . and Did</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">Phylloxera and the Great European Vineyard Do-over</span>Read more