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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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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On 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…
ByThe wine co-operative: The poetry of co-operation
Looking for the poetry in wine, I’ve tended to overlook the wine co-operative movement which has probably done more…
ByIn praise of alcohol
To write a paean in praise of alcohol in relation to wine might seem both wrong-headed and ill-timed. Even…
BySteven Spurrier and lightness of touch
Steven Spurrier disappeared from the wine world, and from this vale of tears, rather as he had inhabited it:…
ByThe classical essence of Napa Cab
While 2020 will undoubtedly go down in history as the year of Covid-19 (or, alas, the first year…
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