Tracy Kennard wrote this important piece for the TFL this summer. In honor of her beautiful soul and spirit, I'm making this free for all. Her memory will be... read more →
Is wine essential? In times like these, hell yeah, more than ever. Okay, so is scotch, gin, mezcal, chacha, tequila and vodka (even if only as a disinfectant).... read more →
A young and almost angelic man, with sandy-hued hair that perches between rasta and just unbrushed, who travels with a sharp knife, left my couch the morning after I finished up... read more →
There he was, a kid on the Lyon Part Dieu platform, eating a bag of Lays Nature. That’s when it hit me, in that pimply boys hands was the answer... read more →
“The Joys of Processed Wine and Ignore the Snobs, Drink the Cheap, Delicious Wine” was the two-titled opinion piece from writer Bianca Bosker. It appeared in last week’s New York Times.... read more →
When the wine writer emeritus Hugh Johnson told Washington Post wine writer David McIntyre that “orange” wines were a sideshow and a waste of time, fur raised on Facebook and... read more →
Last week there was a weed conference in New York City. I put a request into my publicist friend attending, “Edibles!” Instead she invited me to an after-party, complete with... read more →
I came to caring about Jews and wine early in life but I came to Aszu, the great botrytized wine of Hungary late. I was working for VOS, trying to... read more →
A few years ago my friend Becky said to me, “You’ll have to find a new battle to fight.” The wine world had changed so much since I wrote The... read more →
Addendum: This post was first published in March 2014. On June 4th 2014, the verdict on the Olivier Cousin case came through: guilty of putting the name Anjou on the... read more →