Category: Facts About Wine

Maybe we’ve made this whole wine making thing way too complicated in the 21st century. Continue reading →

We live in a “brand is everything” world, and wines definitely are no exception. Continue reading →

You do not have to be a wine wizard to know dry red wine plays nice with a well-marbled steak. Now white-smocked scientists are backing up what your plebian palate told you long, long ago. Continue reading →

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Modern techniques produce more quality wine than ever before. Alas, things still go wrong. Continue reading →

We visited wine scoring notes past four weeks, noting wine scores by different notable wine scorers do not mean the same thing. Continue reading →

We’ve slogged through wine scores for three weeks, discovering perhaps what we thought we knew about points was off-point, maybe pointless. We push on. Continue reading →

Exploring wine scores we find wine scores from different scorers do not necessarily mean the same thing. Robert Parker’s 84 means “very good” and Wine Spectator’s 84 means “good.” Continue reading →

Robert Parker did not invent wine scores, but surely he rode numbers to heights no one dared dream before him. Continue reading →

Back in the Baby Boom 1960s, American oenophile wannabes knew almost nothing about wine. Continue reading →