I recently came across a YouTube video, How It’s Made or something like that. The story was about a huge wine factory producing millions of bottles of something made from tonnes of grapes.Grapes are grown by some…
Wine and chocolate, two of life’s most decadent pleasures, have long been enjoyed separately. However, when combined in the right way, these two indulgences can create a symphony of flavors that tantalize the taste buds…
Wine has a relationship with time that’s closer to marriage than science: complicated, unpredictable, and occasionally miraculous. We love to talk about “cellar potential,” as if wine were a trust fund maturing under glass. In…
There is a region known as Karst (Kras in Slovene), which is a limestone plateau extending from southwestern Slovenia into northeastern Italy and parts of Croatia. This region is famous for its karst landscape characterized…
Tannins are among the most talked-about, argued-over, and, frankly, misunderstood characters in the wine story. They’re the reason one glass feels like silk brushing your tongue while another leaves your mouth as dry as last…
The difference between Old World and New World wines, people will tell you, is a matter of geography. Europe on one side, everywhere else on the other. But that’s like saying the difference between an…