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David White is the founder and editor of Terroirist.com, which was named "Best Overall Wine Blog" at the 2013 Wine Blog Awards. His columns are housed at Palate Press: The Online Wine Magazine.

Kermit Lynch’s Journey of Wine Discovery

David White
Features
3 min read
"When I wrote the book," explained wine merchant Kermit Lynch, "I thought the oenologists were going to take over." We were chatting about Adventures on the Wine Route, Lynch's seminal tour of France that can be found on every wine enthusiast's bookshelf. When the book was released in 1988, Lynch

A Consumer Revolution in Wine

David White
Features
2 min read
"This democratization of wine is great," asserted Jancis Robinson, one of the world's leading wine authorities, over coffee one recent morning. Robinson was in Washington, D.C., to promote the seventh edition of The World Atlas of Wine, the indispensable reference book co-authored with Hugh Johnson. Robinson has spent the last

Toss Those Tasting Notes

David White
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2 min read
Ever tasted a boysenberry? What about cat pee? Can you easily discern Irish breakfast tea from English breakfast tea? And do you ever drink kirsch, the brandy made from sour cherries? If you're anything like me, your answer to all these questions is "no." Yet descriptors like these fill the

Wondering What To Drink? Ask a Winemaker

David White
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2 min read
Imagine if BMW’s design chief admitted that Ford produces some of his favorite cars. Or if the CEO of Coca-Cola confessed that every now and then, he craves a Pepsi. Pure fantasy, of course. But with wine, such admissions happen daily. And now, a website has launched -- WinemakersRecommend.com --

With Wine, Emotion Matters

David White
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2 min read
Wine enthusiasts are always looking for an experience that’s completely arresting -- a wine that stops you in your tracks, makes the room go silent, and just pulls you into the glass. Sometimes, those wines are expensive -- perhaps opened at an extravagant wine dinner where everyone brings a bottle

Intimidated by wine? Start drinking.

David White
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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 .