Drink Your Words Archives

In its centuries-old history, the term has come to mean more than just the last drink before bed.

The two wine terms are separated by more than just a single letter.

Originally borrowed from weed culture, the term to describe palate-wrecking, resinous IPAs is back on the rise.

A term that dates back to the 1600s has come to define not just a style of wine, but, some would argue, the whole natural wine aesthetic.

The thrill of finding a “whale” amid commonplace beer and whiskey prevails only because the “shelf turd” dares to exist.

“Round” once sparked a raft of sensuous terms to describe wine. Now that rough edges are de rigueur, is the term a relic of the past?

At once modern and antiquated, humorous and self-serious, the term’s contradictions form the very DNA of bartending.

A staple of the modern sommelier lexicon, the term captures the difficulty of articulating the convergence of taste and texture.

The term emerged in the mid-2010s as sommelier shorthand for a faddish rarity. Is it a dying breed?

Equal parts virtuous compliment and backhanded dig, the ambiguous wine term may have to die for its true tenets to survive.

How a vaguely violent word co-opted from bro culture became a catchall for carefree drinking.

How do we navigate the line between love and revulsion in natural wine?