Manseng – Children's Atlas of Wine

Wines of [2018]

A year-in-review wine post from a long defunct personal blog, originally published in January 2019. I have left almost everything unedited, even when I would prefer to have written differently. As I worked through it became impossible not to thread in some retrospect, so you’ll see some notations from the future scattered here and thereContinue reading “Wines of [2018]”

’13 Ways of Looking at a Wine List’

Notes on a four-course wine dinner hosted at Chambers TriBeCa on Thursday, July 18.

“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.

Green Spain

Verdant, and green, and mild, we’re a long way away, literally and figuratively, from the sangría/bullfight/flamenco/paella Spain that lives in a lot of our imaginations. From the French border on the Bay of Biscay to the fractal Atlantic-facing coastline of Galicia, this is a land of cod fisheries and sidrerías, bagpipes and runes carved inContinue reading “Green Spain”