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A Tasting and Conversation With Dan Petroski of Massican

Dan Petroski’s white wines are elegant and animated, creating a delicious frisson.

The final article in this glittery series considers sparkling wines with a high interestingness quotient.

Refreshing, cleansing, spirited, restorative—sparkling wines that don’t insist on themselves. The third article in the series.

The second article in the series considers Elegant sparkling wines. Who can resist?

Elegant, opulent, refreshing, or interesting—sparkling wines teach your palate how to rejoice.

In the next edition of La Tazza e il Cantico: Pairing Wine With Opera, we find a wine for Wagner’s Tannhäuser.

Emmanuel Lassaigne’s old-school winemaking yields Champagnes of crystalline transparency.

This new series explores linkages of temperament and character, and suggests a new way of writing about wine.

Rousseau’s wines—including varietal Tannat and Colombard—admirably mingle Old World sensibility with New World sunshine.

Cooler air suggests a return to wines whose woodsy sweetness links them to autumn fare.

The Champagne blender’s art is to foresee what each element might contribute to the long conversation taking place inside the bottle.

These sixteen Pinot Noir from warm California vintages feel friendly, juicy, spicy—and just right for cooler weather.