All posts in November 2023

Planet wine is a heavily regulated old orb. Few people, I think, are aware that in addition to being subject to laws that govern the sale and consumption of alcohol, there are very detailed rules about what names can be attached to a bottle of wine. These are mostly rules associated with protected geographic appellations that link…

Is wine good for your complexion? Can it adjust your temperament? Balance your humors? Don’t be embarrased If you haven’t asked yourself these questions recently.  Most people haven’t, at least for the last hundred and fifty years or so. But before that, it was a different story.  Here’s how it goes. For most of literate…

Wine has many faces. If it didn’t, how would we write a fresh essay about it every week (not counting the chestnuts from the archive  we twitch a feather duster over, spruce up a bit and republish from time to time)?  Considering the richness of the subject, its hard to imagine one would ever run…