An Open Heart and Mind
Yes, it’s chauvinism. But there is a deeper explanation. Jean-Robert Pitte spells it out in his masterful Bordeaux/Bourgogne. Certainly wine…
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One Dish, One Wine
Each month we feature one dish with a perfect wine pairing from one of our World’s Best Wine Lists winners.…
Corton Chronicles One: Summer
Standing one afternoon amid the vines on Corton Hill, high above Aloxe-Corton, I watched four workers from Maison Louis Latour…
A Most Cursed Hill: Painshill and the Beginnings of English Wine
An observant traveler taking the main road out of London toward Portsmouth might notice near Cobham the top of a…
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Wine?
It was Italian, from the Val d’Aosta. It was bottle number 401 from a mighty production of 413 bottles. I’d…
Cutting Edge: Innovation and Modern Cooking
There are many ways in which Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking (The Cooking Lab, Bellevue; 2011) goes…
Henri Bonneau Châteauneuf 1989–2004
With the death in 1997 of Jacques Reynaud, owner of Château Rayas, it fell to Henri Bonneau to serve as…
Qualitas Qualitatis
This is not a series of prescriptions for quality in wine today, nor does it pretend to be a ‘scientific’…
