The Palate Press Advertising Network recently ran the 2011 Cognac Writing Contest, sponsored by The Cognac Board (BNIC) with the support of the EU and France. We received dozens of entries and accepted nine of them as final entries. The winner-read more-
In the last five days of 2010, we are going to count down five of our favorite stories from some of our favorite authors in our first year. Today's edition, Natural Wine: On a Practical Note..., by Rémy Charest, is-read more-
So here I was, last spring, talking away with the recently-departed Marcel Lapierre, the Beaujolais vigneron who was one of the dominant figures of the natural wine movement in its strictest definition—organic in the vineyard, wine made with grape juice-read more-
Så här var jag, förra våren, i full konversation med den nyligen bortgågne vinodlaren från Beaujolais, Marcel Lapierre, som hade varit en de mest framstående personer inom rörelsen för naturlig vinodling på det mest strikta sätt – organiskt i vingården, vin-read more-
The natural wine world lost one of its leading figures, Sunday night, when Beaujolais winemaker Marcel Lapierre died after a long battle with melanoma. From his vineyards in the Morgon cru of Beaujolais, Lapierre had become a champion of natural-read more-
Today Cory Cartwright of Saignée launches 32 Days of Natural Wine, his second annual series celebrating natural wine and winemaking. We asked Cory to tell us about the project. What prompted you to start the series last year? What did-read more-
Ed. Note: With reliability akin to the sun coming up tomorrow, we can count on a couple of things from lifestyle writers at the New Year – sparkling wine recommendations, year-end recaps and predictions for the coming year. Writer Alfonso-read more-
Long considered the blue-collar workhorse of the winemaking process, operating sub rosa, yeasts have recently taken center stage in many conversations about wine and the desire to emphasize the expression of vineyard apart from human and technological influence. At the-read more-