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What The Land Can Yield

Reflections on cooking an all-local Thanksgiving dinner

Pour a wine to honor its birthright. Pour it with food.

Wine is local, a lens of culture: this place, this vineyard, this grape, this grower, this heritage.

Old love needs a Bacchus wine, not a Cupid wine.

Pinot Noir is a tuning fork for terroir. Here’s one way to think about that.

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

A rumination on Pinot Noir, Nebbiolo, and what we learn by tasting.

Eleven stand-out American Pinot Noirs, wines whose fine details and ruby-citrus acidity make them brilliant dining companions.

When I judge a wine critically, I ask myself the usual questions about its color, aromas, flavors, textures, finish. But I also probe…

Wine is visceral, sensual, sensorial. When you begin a story about wine, you must switch on your reader.

Should a wine label display the ingredients used in winemaking? A seasoned wine writer and marketer—and avid wine consumer—considers the issues.

Julia Child would have been 100 years old today. She hasn’t been gone long; she died only in 2004, two days before her 92nd…