A new Bordeaux—like the new Cité du Vin museum in Bordeaux, an exceedingly modern shrine dedicated to the history of wine culture—is a necessary... Read more →
How delightful! When professional wine critics discuss wines from a serious region like Bordeaux, they have a tendency to take all the fun out of it.... Read more →
Chablis white wine evokes the image of a lonely housewife of the 60s in suburbia, USA, caught between the era of the domesticated, Stepford wife role-model of... Read more →
My pick for a perfect summer red is Beaujolais. The overwhelming amount of wine made in the French Beaujolais area, just south of Burgundy, is from the Gamay... Read more →
The Loire rocks. The white wines they make in this part of France are unlike anywhere else in the world. Once you get used to the names, and they’re not... Read more →
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Does wine have a soul? Some say that a living thing which isn’t human only forms a soul once it establishes a deep connection with a human... Read more →
For insight into the nature of French Malbec, which is the O.G. (original gangsta) Malbec—not Argentinean, although you’d be forgiven for thinking... Read more →
The thing about Côtes du Rhône wine is, you never know what you’re going to get. This can either be a source of fun or frustration. Is it going to be... Read more →
More is more. Wait. Isn’t less more? More drum ‘n’ bass and less bass and drum solos, more or less? Oh. The topic is barrel-aged imperial... Read more →
More is more. Wait. Isn’t less more? More drum ‘n’ bass and less bass and drum solos, more or less? Oh. The topic is barrel-aged imperial... Read more →