The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Harry Eyres enlists the help of an Austrian novelist and a Roman poet as he attempts to explain the value of wine to a skeptical young…
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Harry Eyres
Harry Eyres is a poet, theater critic, columnist, and wine writer. His books include Wine Dynasties of Europe and the memoir Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet.
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Wine and multiple identities
In a world where the trend is for ever ever greater focus on single sites, Harry Eyres considers the…
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Past lives
Looking back on a 37-year relationship with Burgundy.
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Thoughts after abstinence
What happens when a wine lover takes a break from drinking?
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Minerality: Learning to live with undefinability
Minerality has become ubiquitous as a wine-tasting term, but does anyone know what it really means? Harry Eyres searches…
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Sacré nom
Gualtallary in Mendoza's Uco Valley is a terroir to watch in Argentinian fine wine.
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Ecologies of wine
Harry Eyres on the similar green philosophies of two very different Frenchmen.
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Château Haut-Bailly: Quietly powerful
With Bordeaux in the midst of the 2022 en primeur campaign, we are posting online for the first time…
ByOn inheriting a wine library
One of my regrets is that I couldn’t keep my wine merchant father’s wine library intact. It wasn’t a…
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