Carnival in Italy, a Festival of Wine...
Carnival is a festival which is noted especially in traditionally Catholic countries, because it is the period from Epiphany (January 6) to the beginning of Lent, and these celebrations have roots far back in time: they probably derive from Greek parties as the Dionysian (feasts in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine!).
2012 Redux: Exploding Onto the Scene,...
Palate Press has selected our top ten stories from 2012 and will publish a 2012 Redux article each weekday until...
2012 Redux: Corkage, What Restaurants...
Editor's Note: $50 to open a bottle of wine? Monthly columnist Evan Dawson tries to broker a deal between restaurants and consumers, and elicits some interesting comments from both sides of the debate. –Tom Mansell, Science Editor
The Electric White Wines of Italy
Too many consumers disregard Italy's white wines thanks to the flood of cheap Pinot Grigio that's come ashore. They shouldn't. Italy's whites are electric.
Exploding Onto the Scene: Realizing t...
When Ciro Biondi announced that he was going to abandon his career as an architect, in order to revive the generations-old family wine business, his father was not impressed. In fact he was so unimpressed, he refused to even taste a bottle of the estate's wine when it was put in front of him.
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