La Tâche, Hughes’s Hen, and Vermeer’s Virginal: Andrew Jefford on wine’s transactional flaw
While so much great art and literature is affordable or free, great wine can be prohibitively expensive, making it available…
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Book Review: The Wines of Gala by Salvador Dalí
A surprisingly useful vinous worldview For all that they might debate the merit of his instantly recognizable work—how well his…
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Wine, Kitsch, and the Avant-garde
If wine is not art in the way that, say, painting, music, and poetry are art, it thrives somewhere in…
MUSIC Seven Wines for Seven Symphonies
Wine, wrote Robert Louis Stevenson, is “bottled poetry.” He could equally well have called it bottled music. Wine and music…
Palladio and Prosecco: Parallel Expressions of Bella Figura
The events we call history are like stones skimming over the placid waters of time: each light touch creates a…
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