All posts in April 2023

It’s a question we’re often called upon to answer. It’s true enough that we sometimes move things around a bit to keep the Wine Corner looking fresh, a practice that can leave our clientèle scratching their heads when unable to quickly spot something they’re looking for. But this is a situation that’s quickly put right. More…

We always make room to talk about the romantic side of wine — all the beautiful places and interesting people responsible for bringing it into being. We speak much less about the sometimes punishing, almost always unglamorous labor involved in producing it. Unpredictable weather patterns are not making the work easier. Early flowering makes vines vulnerable to…

The place names Bordeaux and Burgundy may be the most well-known in the wine world. Even people with no wine experience at all know of them and with good reason. Each began its wine-obsessed life shortly after the Roman conquest of what is today France; Each is mainly famous for its red wine; Each is a prime object…

The wine experience is readily sorted into three distinct areas of operations. And, while two of these — the making of wine and its imbibing — draw the bulk of our interest, the third, connected with the keeping, serving and polite consumption of wine, gets far less attention. What constitutes good behavior in this area is admittedly…