A quote from a recently published interview in the Washington Post (Some Wine Writers Benefit From Aging, Too—October 22, 2016) struck a distressed chord with me but seems to have been accepted as incontrovertible elsewhere because of who said it. “Orange wines are a sideshow and a waste of time. What’s the point of experimenting? […]
Month: October 2016
Book Review: I Taste Red: The Science of Tasting Wine — Jamie Goode (2016)
I Taste Red: The Science of Tasting Wine by Jamie Goode University of California Press (2016) Little did I know that over the last forty years my wine career was merely an edited and incomplete version of reality—but thanks to a phenomenon known as Higher-order Brain Processing—my curated reality was still sufficient to call upon […]
Desperately Seeking Chasselas: San Francisco, California (Part 2)
My supply of chasselas was trending dangerously low even before I reserved the one meal designed to test the limits of its versatility as a jack-of-all–trades wine. It’s all well and good to pair chasselas with fondue, raclette or even a ripe Vacherin Mont d’Or but with arbol, habañero and chipotle chiles? With lime juice? […]
Desperately Seeking Chasselas: Berkeley, California (Part 1)
Chasselas 2014, Vin de France, Pierre Gonon, Mauves It’s always fun to find chasselas on a wine list outside of Switzerland but it’s not often that you do and then chances are it’s not even Swiss. Last night at Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California a little digging around turned up this rare gem from […]
Wine with Dinner: Randomly Chosen in September
A small group of wines for this month's Randomly Chosen feature shouldn't fool you into thinking there hasn't been a lot to drink—there has—just not enough of the good stuff. I'll try to remedy that on my trip to California in the beginning of October. In the meantime this coming month will feature my round-up […]
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