I have uncovered potentially serious evidence that could possibly refute the recent scientific evidence suggesting that drinking wine makes you smarter. Specifically, I offer my recent experience reading Nicholas Joly’s essay-like treatise on the hot-potato topic of Biodynamic viticulture, Biodynamic Wine, Demystified. If this is the demystified version, I’d hate to see it mystified. I…
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“If I was anywhere but rural Italy, I’d feel like a total scumbag” (Guest Post by Matthew Gavin Frank)
Following is a guest post from Chicago-born poet and food-and-travel writer Matthew Gavin Frank, who is, by the account of any reasonably sane person, a very interesting guy. Frank has, at turns, held the following jobs: proprietor of an Alaskan breakfast joint menu designer for Julia Roberts’s private parties in Taos sommelier for Chefs Rick…
Uncorking “Corked: A Memoir” (The Kathryn Borel Interview)
Reading Corked: A Memoir, you may find that you don’t much like author Kathryn Borel. And it will probably have nothing to do with her being a Canadian (sorry, Canada… just poking fun at you because you won all of those Olympic hockey gold medals…). She is, by her own fearless admission, not the best…
The Best Wine $1 You’ll Ever Spend
This blog probably doesn’t attract as many newbie wine lovers these days as it does ‘intermediate’ wine lovers, other wine bloggers, and wine industry folk. Well, this is a post for those intrepid wine newbies, and the people who love them (or, the people who feel obligated to buy them wine-related gifts, anyway). Because I…