At the 40th anniversary of the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Leslie Sbrocco showed guests how to write restaurant-worthy wine tasting notes. Amelia Schwartz is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor who ...
No, it’s not that simple. Reviews and reviewers vary in their approach. To be fair, so do wines. Some wines have a dominating feature with details that emerge on the finish. Others might build into a ...
The Wine School of Philadelphia has launched its latest venture: the “After Wine School” podcast. Hosted by school founder Keith Wallace with appearances by school Director of Wine Education Alana ...
“I want to know what the wines taste like!” said a reader about a recent column I had written describing how different appellations and their geography impact the wines that are grown in them. I get ...
Trying to squeeze everything about Italian wine into one column is impossible. Even so, I’m going to try to do just that this week.
Wine snobs often use odd terms to describe wines. We’ve all see a parody of the wine snob: an erudite personage, probably fancily dressed, holding the stemware just so and making declarations of ...
That was how Julia Burke, wine buyer for Flatiron Wines and Spirits in New York, described the Tarlant Brut Nature Zero Champagne when I visited the store recently. The tasting notes on Flatiron’s ...
Let’s shake things up a bit. The tasting notes you’ll find in this article are not the tasting notes you might be used to hearing. Rather than the heavy, serious, pretentious words that are often ...
Pinot Noir has a problem. The problem is far too many wine lovers think you have to spend a fortune to find a great Pinot Noir. Part of this public relations nightmare has to do with the world-class ...