Reading Robert MacFarlane’s introduction to Nan Shepherd’s masterpiece The Living Mountain, I learned of a new concept apropos to my...

First a note on what will be a posting hiatus from now until the end of July, as the gentleman who actually executes this website enjoys...

If you happen not to have caught the tasting report on Schloss Gobelsburg that ran last week on World Of Fine Wine’s website, they have...

This tasting report is first being published on the website of World Of Fine Wines. They’re running it in three parts, concluding...

It was seventeen wines in all, and the tasting “report” runs to more than four thousand words. I like being fully immersed. In the coming...

You will perhaps have read Heidi Schröck’s and my meet-cute story when I interviewed her a few months ago. Chiquet was the first...

Terry samples Champagne Gimonnet et fils.

I promised I’d go live as I finished the tastings, but from this point on things will decelerate, only because I have a week’s worth of...

Sorry for the clichéd headline. I’m still reeling from an actual headline I saw in this morning’s paper, that was so good I was scared to...

When I returned from ten years living in Germany, I settled in Washington DC, determined to get some sort of job – any sort of job – in...