Five Experiences of Portugal, with a Side of Wine

Cathy Huyghe
Features
3 min read
Today, Portugal's extremely photogenic wine regions are being affected by a dizzying whirr of circumstances beyond their control, both political and financial. Currently, vineyards and winemaking exist in the midst of hundreds of years of fine traditions from music to horse breeding, with amazing gardens and upscale hotels punctuating the

MAN Vintners 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon

Remy Charest
Wine Reviews
1 min read
From a dry-farmed vineyard and using a laid-back, relatively low-intervention approach, a very nicely structured cabernet sauvignon, with a good tannin structure and freshness - in particular for this price category, where residual sugar and excessive jamminess too often rule. Old World wine lovers will like this New World wine

Intimidated by wine? Start drinking.

David White
Features
2 min read
Intimidated by wine? You're not alone. Consider the prototypical wine connoisseur -- swirling his glass, sniffing his wine, and blabbering on about some French chateau. He's insufferable. Or consider a representative tasting note. Wine Spectator recently praised a wine for offering notes of "creamy boysenberry, plum skin and cassis .

Amphora Attack

Simon J Woolf
Feature Stories
3 min read
Despite repeated attempts at coercion, I can't get Franz Landauer-Gisperg to tell me how he acquired his amphorae. “If the other winemakers round here knew where I got mine, they'd all want one” is his rather cryptic comment. A better question might be “what the hell is an amphora doing

Martian Wine and Other Futuristic Ideas

Erika Szymanski
Features
6 min read
Now that we know that Mars is capable of holding an atmosphere, it’s only a matter of time until we put one up there again. When we do, I hope that the citizens of Earth have it together enough to make a joint decision about what to do with it