All posts in December 2024

Note: Discovered during routine morning coffee and celebrity news crawl: the following report of a pair of holiday notables tying the knot. ROVANIEMI, Finland, Dec 18 — In one of the most glamorous and star-studded gatherings ever seen above the Arctic Circle,  Frosty Snowman and Rudolf “Red Nose” Reindeer were wed here yesterday. While wind…

For many people, the notion of how wine is made boils down to something like this: there exists a discrete plot of vines from which an individual winemaker annually harvests a crop of one variety of grapes – Malbec or Chenin Blanc, say. The fruit goes into the winemaker’s own cellar, where it is crushed,…

Why is there something rather than nothing?  Why are you yourself and not someone else?  Where do babies come from? Such good questions! Thanks to all of you who send these, and many like them, to the Wine Corner mailroom every week. They’re potent reminders that from time to time it’s imperative to turn our…