This is going to be a very exciting week. PALATE PRESS: The online wine magazine will be loaded with the sort of stories you will want to email to your friends and link at your website. Our Monday Feature is so big-read more-
Can social media affect human behavior? This was a question posed to me at the Social Media Cafe in Barcelona by Steve Lawson. Steve promotes Amplified, which is a project, co-funded by NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and-read more-
Acidity. That's a pretty caustic word. It conjures up visions of car batteries gone bad or way too much vinegar on the chips. And it's a word I avoid (like, well, battery acid) when I talk about wine simply because of the-read more-
À votre santé. Drink to your health, the French say. If you are a food lover or a wine lover, you've almost certainly heard of the famous "French paradox." That the French can eat such rich foods and have better-read more-
You won’t find it in the US, but I was curious: How could England possibly produce decent sparkling wines? For starters, they have the same vein of chalk subsoil as in Champagne. It runs across the English Channel and comes-read more-
Many of us dream of moving to California, buying some property, planting some vines, and turning our grapes into fabulous wine. But if you aren't quite ready to invest a small fortune, there are a variety of alternatives for the-read more-
I love Pinot Noir. And I don’t toss this word about flippantly. Our relationship blossomed in graduate school: late star-lit nights, candles burning by my laptop, a pile of books and a split of Pinot Noir. Last October I shared-read more-
After just two weeks, PALATE PRESS: The online wine magazine is the number two wine site on the Internet, according to PostRank, a site whose analytic metrics account for audience engagement as well as pure page views. Here, look for-read more-