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 →
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 →
You name it, these wines dish it up: stale choucroute, old cheese rind, rancid butter, moldy dough and other malodorous flavors all spawned by the sexual antics of the wold... read more →
Forget down-to-earth, I'm a radical! I can live with that. At first I thought it was an April Fool’s present, and it was kind of cool. Someone broke down the... read more →
This is the last segment of the interview I did with Joe, in October of 2010, just after the death of Marcel Lapierre. Listen on and you will hear a... read more →
This is the second of three posts of my last recorded conversation—interview—with the late, great, wine importer, Joe Dressner. The setting was a noisy 2nd Avenue at the Altas Café.... read more →
Back in 2010 I was just about to deliver my manuscript of Naked Wine. At the time... read more →