Doug Decants: Nord-Sud, Adelaide Hills
Totally radelaide Eric Narioo, who is somehow and somewhat familiar to us, and Anna Martens, made their first wine together on Mount Etna, Sicily in 2008. Since then, their small…
Cara Sur, Mon Amour
...Or how we learned to love criollas A Q&A Argentinean wines and Les Caves de Pyrene? Don’t look so surprised! What’s the deal with Cara Sur? Cara Sur is a…
Tasting fatigue
We are not machines. Our palates are not perfectly calibrated to taste sensitively all the time. We are too tired to taste well sometimes and become aware of tasting less…
176 Short Essays (who’s counting?) About the World of Wine
-Once upon a time we were able to put people on the moon, but we have never found a sensible solution for recycling and reusing glass wine bottles. -Weather…
The common and garden wine buyer
Just as “a policeman’s lot is not a happy one,” the life of the common and garden wine buyer is not all glad-handing and vineyard-hopping in exotic locations and quaffing…
Doug Decants: Makaridze Winery – Imereti, Georgia
The Makaridze family has a long history of viticulture in the village of Terjola in Georgia’s central western Imereti region. Grapes had always been cultivated, but mostly to sell as…