A Wine Advent Calendar for 2019
12 days of grapes.
Whether you drink them in the lead up to the holidays or during, here are our 12 wines of Christmas.
Into Wine
The Last Great Gift for Wine Lovers (Besides Wine)
Vino, verso.
If the beneficiary of your giving doesn’t need glasses or an opener, there’s always a good bottle of wine… or a book.
Mouton Cadet: How One French Winemaker Survived the Great Depression
From glut to glam.
It was 1934, and the Great Depression continued to eat at jobs and prosperity. As Bordeaux’s producers flailed around looking for a solution, Baron Philippe de Rothschild found one.
Don’t Overlook Cabernet Franc
The varietal deserves far more attention than it gets.
Which type of red wine will next capture the imagination, hearts, and wallets of wine consumers?
Wine and Thanksgiving
Putting the vin in Thanksgiving.
So as you prepare a meal from this year’s harvest – whether of meat, fish, vegetables, grains, or fruit – complement it with an earlier year’s grape harvests.
The Case for Crown Caps: Why Some Sparkling Wine Makers Are Re-Thinking Dangerous Corks
Losing the Pop! Corks, Crowns, and Fizz.
We now know that the cork should be removed so carefully from a bottle of sparkling wine that the most you hear is a gentle hiss and that it should not become a dangerous projectile. So why seal sparkling wine with a cork at all?
A Statement on Wine: Martin’s Lane Winery
An expression of design in the Okanagan Valley.
The Okanagan Valley has seen a recent wave of acquisitions and new investments in wineries; Martin’s Lane Winery is an impressive new build.
Château La Coste, France
Winery as installation.
The combination of art, architecture, and wine—white, red, and the rosé for which Provence is famous— is what makes Château La Coste different.
The Great Terroir Debate
Wine on the rocks.
Does the physical environment that grapevines grow in, especially the climate and soil, imprint itself the wines they make?
