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.

TASTING GROUP: ‘Color’

Recapping an afternoon series exploring how wine gets the way it is, and the way we talk about it.

Taste the Rainbow!

How much do we miss when we reduce wine to a couple of colors? It feels natural to self-describe as “more of a white wine person” or “more into red,” but what we’re actually communicating has less to do with the appearance of the wine in our glass than we think. We say ‘red’, butContinue reading “Taste the Rainbow!”