I’ve published tasting sketches from my trip to Germany and Champagne in May, but the real purpose of that trip was sentimental. The...

NEW CHAMPAGNE GLASSES: Laurent Champs knows I like tasting from different glasses, and among the various stems he pulled from his...

The wines improved so much over 3-4 days that I almost went back and re-wrote my first notes. Almost. Ultimately I felt it made no sense...

At Champagne Lallement, they were enjoying the robust business everyone was enjoying in Champagne. Their first-born, Victor, was grown up...

First, a small note. These visit impressions will be out of sequence depending on whether I wrote notes directly into the computer – the...

These are quick and dirty impressions of wines I’ll taste in detail later in the year. The notes are by no means definitive, nor was I...

You must have seen that funny piece that came through the transom (via three different senders; the thing was everywhere) about “The...

Some friends recently described their opinions on restaurant food, and while they had strong views, those views were deeply earned by...

You’ll have noticed, if your life is so drab and wretched that you’ve had time to read my previous posts, that I talk about the...

You know the blues classic “Rolling And Tumbling?” The sub-headline for the 2020 vintage could very well read, Soaring And Plummeting....