On April 7, 2007, I left the town of Pamplona on foot, carrying a pack with clothes, water, and a few other necessities. The words of a friend echoed in my head: Buen Camino. So I walked. El Camino de-read more-
Over the weekend of April 16th to 18th winemakers, sommeliers, restaurateurs, consumers, and many others gathered in New Orleans for one of the biggest showings of champagne and sparkling wine under one roof in the U.S.: the first Independent Champagne-read more-
Jurgen Lijcops and Astrid Fobelets have traveled the globe in search of the very best wine cellars. Fobelets and her co-author Lijcorps—a well-noted chef and sommelier—set out to explore their common passion, and now have shared it with the rest-read more-
“How do you like the wine?” my husband asked me, after pouring a traditionally-styled 2001 Chianti Classico Riserva. “I find it blousy and a bit unfocused,” I replied. “Let’s try it in narrower glass.” Sure enough, the narrower glass reined-read more-
The sign outside the entrance to the winery of Angelo Gaja, in the Piedmontese village of Barbaresco, says volumes in little: Gaja—four letters on a square plaque, gray on gray, like a cornerstone on a civic monument. When Angelo Gaja-read more-
The past week has seen a great deal of conversation—panic really—in the wine corner of the blogosphere about HR 5034. "Call your Congress-critter," you are told, "or the wine wholesalers will eat your children!" What has been lacking is an-read more-
Moving to the Willamette Valley in Oregon, I fully expected to be surrounded by heavenly coffee, fantastic food, killer microbrews, and world-class Pinot noir. Lots of Pinot noir. What I did not expect was to discover a thriving scene of-read more-
Unlike many of his colleagues, Joe Davis, the founder and winemaker of Arcadian Winery, does not come from a long line of winemakers. His people were Monterey fisherman—with first-hand accounts of John Steinbeck’s peccadilloes, no less! But he was not-read more-