The 2014 Totally Arbitrary Wine Awards
Everyone seems to be booking their end-of-the-year egoic flight of fancy, so apologies for my boring and opinionated end-of-the-year list of mainly goodies with the odd hiss-boo baddie thrown in,…
The art & nature of wine transformation: Part 2
Continued from Part 1... Something from something Here’s the rub. Nothing can come of nothing. The Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius expressed this principle in his first book of De Rerum Natura…
The art & nature of wine transformation: Part 1
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed ~ Thomas Huxley The subject of wine (not just the wine itself) is sometimes in danger of becoming an intellectual dead-end due…
Natural Resistance: The struggle for the soil and soul of wine. Part 3
Read Parts 1 and 2 here. Natural Resistance – man against machine Jonathan Nossiter's film Natural Resistance presents the struggle of the artisan vigneron for the life and soul of…
Natural Resistance: The struggle for the soil and soul of wine. Part 2
The debasement of appellation DO governance creates sweeping one-size-fits-all policies that ride roughshod over individuals, take no account of tradition, the needs of the land and the rhythms and vagaries…
Natural Resistance: The struggle for the soil and soul of wine. Part 1
During walks through the vineyards and relaxed gatherings with a group of alternative Italian wine growers, he trades experiences and arguments. What looks like a bucolic paradise, where intelligent people…
Wine Clichés of the week
The language of wine commerce is nothing if not redundant, a barely digestible gallimaufry of hollow jargon, euphemism and tautology, infused with self-importance and seasoned with the obsessive desire to…
Wine au Naturel podcast: an audio interview with Jenny Lefcourt of Jenny & Francois Selections
Jenny & Francois have in large part been responsible for introducing America to the wonderful world of natural wine. Their company began in 2000 after Jenny, a native New Yorker,…
Extraction & The Winemaker: Less is more except when the opposite is the case
Extracting sunbeams from cucumbers may be beyond their capabilities, but some oenologists seem to have the alchemical inclination to squeeze base gold out of simple grape juice. Wanting more from…
Wine au Naturel podcast: an audio interview with Joseph Di Blasi of Vinosseur
Joseph Di Blasi is a blogger and natural wine importer now based in Poland. Joseph chats with us about the wine culture in both Poland and Norway (his former stomping…
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