Wine Texture Terms Defined

Wine Texture Terms Defined

Some years ago I was in Hong Kong for a set of MS classes and exams. It was my first time there. The day before class started our local contact took us to one of his favorite haunts for lunch. It was a hole in the wall joint that specialized in noodles. The owner...
Random Wine Associations

Random Wine Associations

There’s an episode of Spongebob SquarePants where he and Patrick Starr must somehow pass through the perfume section in a department store. Mind you this makes no sense given that the show takes place in Bikini Bottom, which happens to be underwater. But as they...
Vetus Vinous Wimpus

Vetus Vinous Wimpus

This morning I woke up with a bit of a headache. That may not sound unusual, but it is. Thankfully, I rarely get headaches. The ones I do get usually precede an ailment of some kind like a cold, or they follow an initial pain in the bumpkus after too much driving in...
Peace and Salinity: A Personal Wine Manifesto

Peace and Salinity: A Personal Wine Manifesto

Jamie Goode’s The Goode Guide to Wine: A Manifesto of Sorts is literally a pocket-sized personal philosophy about wine; from the tasting experience to commercial vs. artisan wine and beyond. In the preface, he states more than once that he fully expects the reader to...
Mach Cork Speed

Mach Cork Speed

How to Safely Open a Bottle of Bubbly Last summer, an accident with a Prosecco cork forced cyclist Biniam Girmay to withdraw from the famed Giro d’Italia bicycle race. Biniam is from Eritrea and the first Black African to win a stage of a grand tour cycling race. He...