Walk down Gin Lane with these gin-centric books

Gary Thomas
Features
4 min read
GIN GLORIOUS GIN: How Mother’s Ruin Became the Spirit of London by Olivia Williams Headline Press, $14.99 (Paperback), available on Amazon “Gin was mother’s milk to her.” –Eliza Doolittle, “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw Is there a spirit both loved and reviled more than gin?  Many people cannot stand its

Women Wine Makers of Burgundy: Out from the Shadows

L.M. Archer
Features
7 min read
They used to call them "the hidden generation." The women of Burgundy’s domaines: once banned, never heard, and rarely seen. Women in the shadows. The women of the hidden generation were the mothers and grandmothers of today’s rock star wine makers like Ludivine Griveau, Hospices de Beaune's first female wine

Making Wine with The Languedoc Outsiders

Jill Barth
Features
7 min read
In February 2012 a group of French winemakers gathered together to organize an original collaborative wine tasting at Vinisud, a wine trade event in Montpellier in southern France. They called themselves "The Languedoc Outsiders" and for their debut tasting, they presented a mind-bending experience. When event invitees stopped by to taste

A Ruffino Retrospective

Michelle Locke
Feature Stories
4 min read
Looking back, and ahead, with the iconic Chianti producer Lined up on the white tablecloth, the vertical Chianti tasting is a study in scarlet, from the deep ruby of the 2011 to the brick red of the 1977. It’s not every day you taste a nearly 40-year-old wine – for many

A fresh crop of Cape wines at Intellego

Simon J Woolf
Feature Stories
3 min read
What's your image of South African wine? Big-boned, smoky Pinotage, highly extracted Bordeaux blends, or super-ripe oaked Chenin and Chardonnay perhaps? These were the wine styles that put post-apartheid South Africa on the international wine map. You might be surprised if you tasted Jurgen Gouws's refreshing bottles. Visitors were scratching