Mallorca: the Galápagos of grapes

W. Blake Gray
Features
7 min read
This might be the first serious wine article about Mallorcan wine in English since the advent of the Internet. In the pre-html era, Pliny the Elder praised it. Food & Wine's Ray Isle visited Mallorca in 2005, but his article was – duh! – about food AND wine. So I'm the guy to

Eat on the street (and drink!) in Italy

Elisabetta Tosi
Features
4 min read
One of the best parts of traveling in Italy is, without a doubt, the food and drink (mainly wine) that you find there. There are so many good restaurants everywhere in Italy you can choose where to go according to your taste – and your wallet of course. However, the

Comté and the terroir of cheese

Mary Cressler
Features
9 min read
I’d only been in the region a few hours. I was tired and jetlagged after twenty hours of travel and a nine-hour time difference. But our guide at the museum, our first stop, decided to wake us all up by giving us a playful quiz – an activity to awaken our

For the love of peat: 200 years of Laphroaig

Michelle Locke
Features
3 min read
There are whiskies that seduce, whiskies that inflame, whiskies that captivate. And then there are whiskies like Laphroaig, a big, briny, smoky punch in the gullet that has been winning friends, or not, for 200 years. Peat is the secret to the distinctive, love-it-or-hate-it medicinal, seaweedy character of Laphroaig (la-FRYOG,

Any color you like as long as it’s orange

Simon J Woolf
Feature Stories
4 min read
Picture this: a postcard perfect seaside town in Slovenia, blue skies, fresh seafood and a wine festival. But not just any wine festival – in Slovene and Italian (the two most encountered languages in this part of the world) the description is rendered as “white wines with long maceration”. But