All posts in June 2019

Lovers of wine and the wine vine can be found all over the world, in every known clime and on every inhabited continent. Meanwhile, the places where wine can actually be produced are confined to a relatively narrow strip of our dear old Earth, positioned between about 30 and 50 degrees north and south latitudes.…

The prosperous and populous states of the European north continue to put the squeeze on their poorer relations in the south, with the predictable result that the putters upon are heartily resented by those put upon. It’s not clear whether the north will ultimately succeed in imposing its brand of fiscal restraint on the south,…

Climate change is real and our globe is warming at an alarming rate.  In the decades to come, scientists say, the sweet spot for wine grape farming may shift dramatically to the north (south, if you’re in the nether hemisphere).  We’ve seen maps that locate the new U.S. center of wine gravity in latitudes that…

I must have been shifting cases in the deepest, darkest recesses of the Formaggio wine cellar when Isabelle Legeron, Master of Wine (who also chooses to be known as That Crazy French Woman) published her book on natural wine a few years ago. Having read it, I heartily endorse it. One aspect I found particularly…