“Where every bottle tells a story”
Exploring the world of wine through the lens of wine terminology
If you drink sparkling wine and don’t know this term, you’re basically enjoying the fireworks without ever asking who lit the fuse. Let’s fix that. This is the story of the quiet little potion that turns a perfectly respectable still wine into something volatile, dangerous, and celebratory enough to spray all over locker rooms and wedding dance floors. It’s the behind-the-scenes grunt worker of...
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There is a moment, when you’re sipping a glass of wine, that feels almost like the hush after someone’s told a beautiful secret. The swallow is done, the glass is lowered, conversation stirs around you—but the wine hasn’t finished speaking. It lingers. It trails across your tongue, curls up behind your teeth, hums quietly at the back of your throat. That lingering whisper, that slow-fading echo of...
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There’s a moment, when you pour a glass of wine, that feels almost indecently intimate. The bottle...
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There are moments in the life of a wine when time seems to slow, when nothing appears to be...
There’s a moment, when you pour a glass of pale, shimmering Riesling, that time seems to slow down....
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They tried to civilize wine with three letters. Not the elegant three of God or...
On a warm afternoon in a quiet vineyard, one might lift a glass of wine to the...
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Walk into enough cellars and wine bars and you’ll eventually meet the...
It is a truth very generally acknowledged among those who delight in wine that a bottle of more than...
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There is a moment, standing in a vineyard just before harvest, when everything feels almost edible:...
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It is a truth not universally acknowledged, though it ought to be, that a good glass of wine is...
It begins with rot. Not the clean word you expect in wine. Not oak or blossom or...
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The first thing you notice is the light. It breaks in the glass in quick...
There’s a moment in every wine lover’s life when the glass is raised, the aromas...
You’re standing in a cold cellar that smells like wet stone, old wood, and a...
Oh, my dear, pour yourself a little glass of something nice and settle in,...
If you’ve ever taken a sip of red wine and felt your mouth suddenly turn into...
There’s a moment on a hot afternoon in some nowhere Italian town when you don’t...
There are some words that feel as if they’ve been decanted slowly over...
It is a truth very generally acknowledged that a person in possession of a...
The bottle stood in a silver bucket. Cold water. Melting ice. The glass beside...
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The first thing you need to understand is that the number on the label is not...
The wine sat in the glass like a tired man. It had color and weight, but no...
Oh, my dear, let’s tie on our aprons and step into the cellar, shall we? Today...
It is a truth perhaps not yet universally acknowledged that a person in...
The old man poured the wine into a short glass. It was red and deep and quiet....
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The first time you meet it, you think you have done something wrong. You pull...
You’re sitting in a tasting room somewhere in wine country. The sommelier is...
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There are some wine words that sound so clinical, so laboratory-sterile, that...
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There is something irresistibly suggestive about the word green when it...
On a warm, wind-swept afternoon in the Mediterranean, you might walk through a...
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There are a lot of fancy words in wine that exist for one reason: to make you...
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You’re sitting in a bar somewhere in Spain. The menu is a laminated mess, the...
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The first time you see it, you might think something has gone horribly wrong in...