Wine tannins are the little girl with the curl. When they are good, they are very good indeed. But when they are bad they are horrid. Continue reading
Category: Recent Columns
Coronavirus impact
Coronavirus disrupts life worldwide. For wine world, however, the situation has meant boom rather than bust. Continue reading
Wine and sex
There is an old saying about lovemaking—a little wine increases the opportunity, too much wine decreases the performance. Continue reading
Buying wine #2
Week two of wine acquisition strategies: Continue reading
Buying wine #1
Reviewing wine is vexing when your words appear in newspapers and the internet around the world. Continue reading
Wine world notes
Wine world notes: Continue reading
Grape quantity per bottle
How many grapes does it take to make a bottle of wine? Depends, as it so often does in wine. Ballpark: 600 to 800 grape berries. Continue reading
Old wine
The vast majority of the wine you are likely to purchase is ready to drink when you get home from the store. What happens when you put a bottle in the back of your wine fridge or dark closet and forget about it? What happens with really old wine? Continue reading
Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is Friday. Monster moment for chocolatiers, florists, and greeting card makers. Is there a place for wine in all this? This is a wine column, of course there is. Continue reading
Australian fires
Australia burns. A billion animals killed. Apocalyptic trailer to what happens if we do not address global warming. Continue reading