And, were they ever really useful? A lot of people think not, and prominent among them is Ms. Vicki Denig, who wrote a strongly argued...

A little coda to my earlier blog piece, in which I wondered whether the immediate access to universal information might be crippling to...

In wine, I have often extolled the virtues of charm and deliciousness. We don’t pay enough attention to those virtues. “Charm” I suspect...

In 1993 when I was trying to establish a portfolio of Austrian wines, I knew the top names in the Wachau but I didn’t know anything else....

Just a wee bit of history before we begin, in order to establish context. This all began when I started to represent an estate in...

The quote belongs to Frank Zappa, and the reason I thought of it was I was thinking of jazz, and the reason I was thinking of jazz was...

[NOTE: this long post will be a 2-weeker, as your humble author will take a break from blogging and recharge the ol’ cerebellum. See you...

In what I shall whimsically refer to as my “formative years,” it was less easy to find potential customers than it is now. There was no...

I have written often about Johannes, his family, and their wines, in both of my books and in every catalogue I created since I started...

Dostoyevski said somewhere that “It’s always worth while talking with a clever man.” Mr. Sam Davies is one such. You don’t know Sam,...