In the spirit of making more to share and learn from together, the Children’s Atlas of Wine now has a Patreon.
Please check that out if you’d like to support this project—and if you’re coming from over there, here is a selected round-up of some of my favorite atlas entries, class recaps, published work, etc that are on the site or lurking in the internet at large. I’ll be updating it periodically as we grow:
Resources
‘What’s a Hybrid?’ from catawba to vidal
‘New World v. Old World’ a list of other, better binaries
Lesson Plan: Wine Language a free wine description game
Champagne In 3 Parts origins, problems, world
Chablis in 6 Layers geological time, human time
Muscat(s) a wine list, a history, a galaxy
Atlas Entries
Jura
“as though it’d gone through the looking-glass. Everything is bent just a little out of shape, just a little strange.”
Northern Rhône
“Clinging to stakes, buffeted by the cold mistral wind from the north, backed by apricot trees” (+ new map and producer profiles)
Gredos
“up mule paths and mountain streams, a treasurehouse of old-vine grenache that tastes like nowhere else”
Newsletters That Were Actually Essays
“Ten Wines For 2024” (December, 2024)
“On Travel” (May 31, 2023)
“A History of Natural Wine Fairs” (June 22, 2022)
“Bubbles for the New Year” (Dec. 31, 2021)
“Memes!” (Nov. 30, 2021)
“Returning from Harvest” (Sep. 10, 2021)
“Newsletter Vol. 6” (Nov. 7, 2020) it was the day they called the election
Published Writing
“Plēb Urban Winery [Wine Right Now],” PUNCH
“Plēb shows what domestic wine could look like if it grew out of what was available locally and in abundance rather than what was imported and scarce, and if the barrier to entry for tasting it were no higher than sticking your head in the door to see what was on tap.”
“The end of an era, the death of an idea,” Disgorgeous Zine Vol. 4: RBRT PRKR
“Clinging to low- to moderate-alcohol—as a singular guarantor of balance, authenticity, terroir—was soon going to be completely beside the point.”
“Twenty Questions about Terroir,” Disgorgeous Zine Vol. 3: Terroir
“Terroir is not a vegetable, and it is not a mineral. Terroir is an animal.”
“A gnostic history of wine color,” Disgorgeous Zine Vol. 2: Color
“Unearth with your brother in the desert a sealed red clay jar that you smash open with a mattock and you will find, among the papyrus that your mother did not burn for fuel in the stove, written in nearly indecipherable script, the following fragments, beginning as abruptly as they end:”
“A Rare Delicacy,” Disgorgeous Zine Vol. 1: Delicacy
“I cannot afford to open this fucking wine”
“The Myth of ‘Old World’ Wine,” PUNCH
“I want to suggest that what we think of as wine ‘tradition’ is more of a selective misremembering than an unbroken chain.”
(Other People’s) Multimedia
“Catalonia: Breath of the Wild Part 2: Air”, Disgorgeous Ep. 192 (Feb 14, 2022)
“Loire-dew Valley Part 7: Burlington Côt Factory”, Disgorgeous Ep. 161 (May 30, 2021)
“Supertasters – James Sligh”, SevenFifty Daily (Oct. 2019)
General Drinking
Wine pairing, i (Eric Bordelet, “Argelette”, Normandy 2017)
Wine pairing, ii (Clos du Rouge Gorge, Côte Catalanes blanc, Roussillon 2014)
Class Recaps: In General
“What Is Natural Wine?” (Jan. 9, 2021)
“Inventing Traditional” @ Dear Annie (spring 2024)
“Wines In Time” (winter 2023 remote class season)
“Tasting Group: Soil” (summer 2024)
“Tasting Group: Color” (summer 2024)
Class Recaps: Wine Regions
“Cava Country” (spring 2024)
“Sailing Like Phoenicians” (Jan. 15, 2022)
“Crossing the Rhine” (Oct. 8, 2021)
“Burgundy Made By Farmers” (July, 2021)
“Catalunya” (Feb. 4, 2021)
Class Recaps: Grape Varieties
“Palomino” (spring 2024)
“Garnatxa” (spring 2024)
“Trousseau” (Feb. 19, 2022)
“Riesling” (Feb. 13, 2022)
“Syrah & Their Cousins” (Feb. 5, 2022)
“B-Sides & Obscurities” (Dec. 13, 2021)
“Aligoté Has Terroir” (Jan. 4, 2021)
“Pinot X” (Feb. 12, 2021)
“Muscat: Not Sweet!” (Mar. 29, 2021)
Art
Cover, Malus (Issue 14 / 2021)
maps, American Cider (Dan Pucci & Craig Cavallo, March 2021)
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