Any color you like as long as it’s orange

Simon J Woolf
Feature Stories
4 min read
Picture this: a postcard perfect seaside town in Slovenia, blue skies, fresh seafood and a wine festival. But not just any wine festival – in Slovene and Italian (the two most encountered languages in this part of the world) the description is rendered as “white wines with long maceration”. But

The Wrong Side of the Rhône

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
6 min read
It is a drizzly afternoon in late February when Stéphane Ogier drives me in his Range Rover to the top of a hillside overlooking the Rhône River and the small town of Seyssuel just north of Vienne. We bump along rutted, muddy farm lanes at the edge of a plateau

Wine needs a Nordic Food Lab

Erika Szymanski
Features
5 min read
Wine needs a Nordic Food Lab. I’m not making a call for mealworm merlot or even necessarily for reclaiming ancient, lost grape varieties. I’m saying that wine needs a space for really off-the-wall research, done very well and in full view. If mealworm merlot just threw you for a loop

Seven Summer Wines for a Sicilian Dinner

Elisabetta Tosi
Features
4 min read
“Our Sicilian wines are ideal for people on diets, those who need minerals for sports practice, and for people with high blood pressure. You don’t even need to add salt to the water when you're cooking pasta, a good Inzolia wine is flavor enough, itself!” Giacomo Ansaldi, winemaker at Fazio