All posts in July 2023

It may be the most viewed, most talked about, the most influential medical-related segment the long-running CBS newsmagazine show 60 Minutes ever produced. It was 1991 and host Morley Safer brought Americans some almost too-good-to-be-true news, wrapped in a mystery. His guest that Sunday night was a French doctor who had a theory about why it might be that…

There was a time when the tasting note was a wine insider’s tool. Sommeliers, cellar masters and wine brokers, whose job it was to make purchasing decisions made use of them to note the character and quality of what they tasted. For these folks, a hastily-scribbled note in an old leather pocket book was a…

One of the things we learn as we become more acquainted with the wide world of wine is that there’s almost no end to its variety — that it can be made in a myriad of styles from dry to sweet, fruity to savory. We all know that some red wines are big in body,…

The twentieth may have been the American century, but it was during the eighteenth that we made the transition from an ethnically uniform but marginally viable colony of the British Empire clinging tenaciously to the East Coast of North America to a fully independent polity taking its place and its chances among the nations of…