A new, very old world to explore
I feel some reverence for this bottle; unusually so. Let me explain. At a superficial level, the wine is a…
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The role
of the critic
an untimely assessment
The unwieldy diversity and confusing complexity of wines available to consumers compounds rather than alleviates a cacophony of variously well-…
A Search for RadianceVarner and Neely
It’s evening in March. We’ve just finished barrel-tasting 2011 Chardonnay and Pinot Noir with Jim Varner. The conversation has focused…
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.…
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes:
The New Old Cheeses of the English-Speaking World
Wallace & Gromit make endearing symbols of Great Britain. The heroes of Nick Park’s Oscarwinning claymation films, the absent-minded inventor…
Living the dream part one : The Search for a vineyard
Where does an idea start? How does it ferment? I have been looking back, rather self-indulgently, to a time when…
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…
Beyond dreams in Burgundy
The hunting horns were braying. The crowd was clapping; the choir of vignerons, clowning about on the stage. After the…
