How Do You Describe a Great Champagne?
Describing any wine is hard. Describing a great Champagne can seem next to impossible.The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
The Magic of Wine
Over the last few days, I’ve felt there is a lotThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
Blood from a Stone—A Memoir of How Wine Brought Me Back from the Dead
A few months ago, the manuscript for a soon-to-be published The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
Wine and Emotion
Chris Carpenter has been the longtime winemaker of Cardinale,The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
Who Doesn’t Love to be Seized…?
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Why So Much Italian Wine?
In the United States, most of the wine that’s imported is Italian. In 2025 some 93.2 million gallons of Italian wine were imported into this country. In fact, Italian wine has led US imports for decades, hitting a peak in 2021 with 43% of all US table wine imports. Is it because Italian wine is just so good? I love lots of Italian wine, but I’m sure “goodness” has nothing to do with it. What does? The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
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