A conversation with Luca Currado on Piedmont's "White Nebbiolo"
Old World and New World. In other words, Europe and Everybody Else: they’re essentially the two kingdoms of wine taste and everybody...
Ahh, the 100-point system for scoring wine. Is there a taller lightning rod in wine circles than its ubiquity and...
As much as we talk about terroir, it is hard to find. Not here.
The Dark Beast of Italian Wine
This past winter, I rediscovered Syrah via the red wines of the Northern Rhône River, most notably the barely-in-my-price-range wines...
A few weeks ago, I had lunch with a former colleague and friend, and the subject of traveling around France...
Some styles of wine have a clear echelon of quality, while others require a bit more triangulation to figure out. The...
Now's the Season to Drink France's Finest Rosé
Weeknights at home seem to be the most fertile ground for experimental pairings. On Tuesday, my wife and I did...
I’ve been ignoring New World wines on Opening a Bottle lately, probably because I’m going through a roots phase with France and Italy...
Recommending wines and writing about them isn’t a new phenomenon. Just ask Pliny the Elder or Leonardo di Vinci about...