Wine

Strong vines for the festive season

Some bottles to be thankful for

Look at the color in the glass

Pinot Noir ‘should be approached like a beautiful woman — with respect, some knowledge, and great hopes’

What bubbles up must go down

I have some good advice about some things you might want to drink after you have gathered with one or two appropriate friends

A Healdsburg symposium

We tasted six or seven maturing wines straight from the barrel. It was a little like watching some young ballerinas

Wine may have been born in Virginia, but it matured elsewhere

Homer spoke of the ‘wine-dark sea’. He could not, but should, have had a Syrah like this in mind

American drink writing tends to be self-flagellating: the recovering alcoholic’s remembrance of sins past