Fourth of our five-part Grape Study in Feb/Mar
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Wines of 2021
Nine drinks that moved me last year.
Like a wine list
Wines poured Jan 2021-Jan 2022.
Welcome patrons!
A lil link roundup of stuff I like that’s live on the site if you’re looking for a cheat sheet.
“A gnostic history of wine color”
This piece was originally published winter 2021 in Disgorgeous Zine Volume 2: Color.
“If Not Burgundy, Then Where?”
Show notes for an in-person tasting at Rule of Thirds in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on Monday, 11.8.2021.
Class Recap: “Crossing the Rhine”
Alsace may be in France, but it faces Germany. There is sausage, and coq au vin made with riesling, and grape varieties named on the labels of your tall, fluted wine bottles. Across the Rhine, Baden grows a bunch of grape varieties whose names mean “from Burgundy”. Württemberg drinks juicy, glou-glou red from a grapeContinue reading “Class Recap: “Crossing the Rhine””
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!”