Features

The Best Things I Ate In Italy Last Week

Italy is delicious. (I’m not the first to notice.)

Meg Houston Maker joins The Tasting Panel and The Clever Root as contributing editor and columnist

My thoughts on publishing my five-hundredth post

The biodynamic winemaker on philosophy, technology, modernity, and his young but vital project.

The conversation continues, mostly about the translation of substance into essence.

At Failla, Ehren Jordan produces Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Syrah wines that are thoroughly modern—yet evoke the classical past.

Maker’s Table is shortlisted for Best Writing while two features are nominated for Best Post.

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

Provence wine specialist Elizabeth Gabay, MW, guides us to rosé deliciousness.

Meg Houston Maker reviews fifty Portuguese wines selected by a panel of master sommeliers.

I’m thrilled to announce I’ve been accepted into the Circle of Wine Writers.

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