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...
Leonardo’s Bubbles

Leonardo’s Bubbles

A mystery of fluid dynamics that was first noticed by Leonardo—and that’s flummoxed scientists for centuries—has apparently been solved. And we are glad for it. Over 500 years ago, da Vinci was watching bubbles floating in water. When you’re the greatest...