When it comes to typicity in wine, it's increasingly hard to make generalizations, says David Schildknecht. The diversification that characterizes viticulture and winemaking in our new millennium appears to have developed paradoxically in parallel with consensus concerning

Tom Stevenson on the complex processes involved in the application of liqueur de tirage. I doubt that anyone who is sufficiently into wine to subscribe to The World of Fine Wine will be unaware of the liqueur

Le côté obscur means “the dark side.” Darkness, in these rancorous times, haunts our consciousness and discourse; dark arts have taken public life, of late, to dark places—or so it appears to many. The difficult label of

  It was probably Jack Davies at Schramsberg who told me there was something exciting going on on the other side of the valley. I had already fallen in love with Schramsberg, an improbable white mansion high