Real journalism isn’t created in newsrooms, but in the places where news actually happens. That’s why from time to time your intrepid correspondent dons trench coat and fedora and leaves the confines of his cozy garret to get the story. And so, when, earlier this week, the rare opportunity arose to cop an interview with (HELLO!!)…
All posts in May 2019
When Wine Went Dutch
The golden age of Dutch art coincided with that nation’s high water mark as a commercial powerhouse. In the first half of the seventeenth century, its merchant navy dwarfed England’s. The French, at that point, weren’t even in the running – though they saw the danger and began frantically planting the oak forests they would…
Big Noses
You have a nose and so do we. Some have more nose than others: Cyrano (permanently, above) and Pinocchio (episodically, not shown) come to mind. Wine also has a nose — at least that’s how we often refer to the aromatic profile it presents to us. Both kinds of noses prove to be frightfully complicated things…
All in Your Head? Wine may be less tangible than you think
It is a curious yet widely unremarked-upon thing that the world of wine is considered to exist entirely in the physical spaces where vines grow, fruit is harvested and wine is vatted and bottled. The notion that wine is inextricably linked with tangible terrain is reinforced by atlases that plot areas of wine activity on…
Spell Check
It’s only four letters, and not likely to make any sixth grader slap his forehead in frustration. But not all spelling challenges involve bees, Scrabble games, or even letters. Musicians are said to spell chords when they analyze them into their constituent tones, for example. Someone seeking the details of how something happened may ask…