Previewing the spring CLUB shipment
Tag Archives: Itata
Grape Files: Muscat(s)!
A galaxy of muscats.
TASTING GROUP: ‘Color’
Recapping an afternoon series exploring how wine gets the way it is, and the way we talk about it.
Fringe Spain: CONQUISTA
A monthly class series held at Tin Parlour, a conservas wine bar in the East Village.
‘Inventing Traditional’ @ DEAR ANNIE
A class held at Dear Annie, a wine bar in Cambridge, MA, as part of Lauren Friel’s tasting series UNRULY.
Class Recaps: ‘Wines in Time’
Class recaps for episodes 1-8 of the winter-spring 2023 series.
“The end of an era, the death of an idea”
This piece was originally published in Fall 2022 in Disgorgeous Zine Volume 4: RBRT PRKR.
Like a wine list
Wines poured Jan 2021-Jan 2022.
Chile’s Dark Side of the Moon
The people writing the histories of Chilean wine usually start the clock in the 19th century, in the Central Valley south of Santiago, where titled families who got rich through crown concessions for silver and copper mining went into politics and then retired as gentlemen farmers, on big irrigated haciendas where they planted Bordeaux varietiesContinue reading “Chile’s Dark Side of the Moon”
Languages of Taste
How do we talk about wine, and to what end? Is it to remember what we’ve tasted, or to describe our experiences to others? To give, or receive, recommendations for something that the person asking might like? To to communicate luxury or prestige, to sell a product? To evaluate quality? Here are some (genuine) examplesContinue reading “Languages of Taste”
Children's Atlas of Wine 