Confessions of a Checklist Drinker
Charles Antin spent the better part of his 20s in the fine and rare wine department at Christie’s. But after nearly a decade mainlining some of the greatest wines of…
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Charles Antin spent the better part of his 20s in the fine and rare wine department at Christie’s. But after nearly a decade mainlining some of the greatest wines of…
Italy, a country with one of the world's winemaking (and drinking) traditions, is increasingly disinterested in consuming their own wines. Newsweek reports that while Italy is now the "world's largest…
No phone, no reservations, no service, a megaphone and its own sovereign currency. La Pointe du Grouin is Paris’s most chaotic—and, inadvertently, its most revolutionary—new drinking experience.
One acre in the Côte de Beaune's storied mecca of chardonnay, Bâtard-Montrachet, will cost you a cool $10 million. That's one acre and less than a half-hectare for the Euros out there.…
In her column for London's Financial Times, wine writer Jancis Robinson finds New York's wine scene to be "faddish," citing the city's apparent disregard for the wines of the Southern…
Welcome to the first installment of "That Certain Something," a dating and entertaining column that Emily Post definitely wouldn't approve of.
San Francisco Chronicle Wine Critic Jon Bonné's long-awaited book, The New California Wine, hits bookstores today. The book is part manifesto, part guidebook weaved together by Bonné's personal experience following…
(n.) A geographic boundary wherein certain winemaking and grape-growing rules must be followed in order for the wine to carry the name of the appellation. Countries set their own regulations…
(n.) The small amount of spirit or wine that evaporates while the liquid is aging in barrels.
Garagiste's Jon Rimmerman gets another round of high-profile ink, this time in GQ, where talks his favorite glassware, the "Next Napa," and why we should be paying a bit more…