Month: July 2023

It may be the most viewed, most talked about, the most influential medical-related segment the long-running CBS newsmagazine show 60 Minutes ever produced. It was 1991 and host Morley Safer brought Americans some almost … The New French ParadoxRead more

There was a time when the tasting note was a wine insider’s tool. Sommeliers, cellar masters and wine brokers, whose job it was to make purchasing decisions made use of them … Pour Me Another Tasting NoteRead more

One of the things we learn as we become more acquainted with the wide world of wine is that there’s almost no end to its variety — that it can be … Fat and Skinny Had a RaceRead more

The twentieth may have been the American century, but it was during the eighteenth that we made the transition from an ethnically uniform but marginally viable colony of the British Empire … What Yankee Doodle DrankRead more