All posts in March 2022

You have a nose and so do we. Some have more nose than others. Cyrano de Bergerac, whose prodigious schnoz was a permanent feature (that’s Gerard Depardieu in the role of the celebrated swordsman and poet, above) is a famous case study. Pinocchio, whose wooden nose went to great lengths only episodically is another. Wine…

Here in the wine corner, we spend our days trying put words to what we sell. It’s not unpleasant work, but it is often challenging. All wine can be (and is, by the way) analyzed in someone’s lab to determine its exact composition, but even if we were privy to the numbers, it would scarcely…

  The signature on a document, work of art or other created thing is a mark of origination: a sign that associates the object in some definitive way with the individual responsible for its content, or, more fundamentally, its existence. Although it’s common for a signature to take the form of an autograph — that’s…