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Encyclopedia of Wine Hokumby Jennifer Rosen
Myths about wine don’t just take on a life of their own, they collect disciples. Sommeliers, producers, drinkers and, yup, even wine writers cling to notions that simply ain’t true, not surprising in a field that changes as fast as a lunch-hour shopper at Loehmann’s. Here’s a short guide… |
Behind the Musicby Jennifer Rosen
This week, Biography looks at one of wine’s rising stars – a sensuous white grape, as renowned for her troubled background as for her seductive charm, who triumphed over misfortune and won our hearts. A meteoric rise, struggles with leaf rot, a near-miss with extinction. Exotic, enigmatic, temperamental, long shunned… |
Fred MacMurray's Wine Legacy - My Three Winesby Darryl Beeson
"In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing,"
reads the opening of Norman Maclean's novello, "A River Runs Through It,"
painting an evocative portrait of the sons of a small-town Montana minister.
Actor Fred MacMurray, grandson of a horseback traveling Presbyterian
minister in Scotland could… |
Organic, not Geeky, Wineby Darryl Beeson
The word "organic" on a label of wine has tended to be the kiss of death towards sales. There has been a small, sometimes tie-died, always dedicated audience for all things certified organic. The remaining vastness of the marketplace views such efforts as being more expensive and less full-filling. Lets… |
A Wee Dram-amineby Darryl Beeson
They don’t call the ocean “the drink” for nothing. My mates and I are motivated more by the peat of the malt than by the pelt of the waves. Our team of three boats, nestled in a hundred boat flotilla, proceeds to seek the finest of Scotland’s single malt Scotches.… |
Matias Lecaros Winemakerby MADELYN MILLER
Carmen winemaker Mastias Lecaros is doing all kinds of exciting things. When I was in Chile, I of course tasted his wonderful wines. But it took a trip to Dallas by him for me to be lucky enough to discuss the man behind these exciting wines. I tasted his organic… |
Meet the Pinotsby Jennifer Rosen
Pinot. The word keeps popping up like Paris Hilton in your spam box. Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Grigio. What’s up with that?
Welcome to this brilliant, dysfunctional family of grapes, whose ancestral vault was recently pillaged by DNA-crazed scientists, to reveal some shocking skeletons.
Named for the pinecone that… |
Western Civ 101by Jennifer Rosen
Jesus was not a party animal. The Last Supper was hardly the blowout of the season. So why would he waste his quota of miracles on something so frivolous as turning water into wine.
We use wine to celebrate, relax, pontificate and get drunk. It’s hard to imagine that this… |
