Dies Ira
This bottle poses three questions. Glasses drained, the questions remain, flexing themselves like expiring fish — though partly answered, and…
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What Now Matters Most
The anti-alcohol lobby hasn’t won yet, thank God. We still drink wine in France — not as much as we…
2015 Bordeaux En Primeur: A Door Half Open?
I attended a conference in Bordeaux last November on the future of en primeur. It was fascinating to hear, in…
Clonakilla Shiraz/Viognier 1992–2011
Wine and politics should never mix. Perhaps that is why the wineries from the Canberra region in New South Wales…
Jura: Cotes of Many Colors
Well… This was an unusual and rewarding tasting of wines from France’s most singular wine region. The results follow; first,…
Glimmers from the Year in Wine
It was a short stroll across the village to meet with Heidi Schröck and taste her new vintage. Heidi makes…
Oh precious liquor. What can one do without you?
Reviewed by Stuart Walton The only radical intoxicant still permitted to the mass of humanity, other than where religious interdiction…
Does the Answer Lie in the Soil?
The word “terroir” comes from soil, and I have always assumed that the dominant influence on terroir (insofar as influences…
