What We’re Drinking – Rodney Strong Symmetry

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Rich, luscious and deep, this is a big mouthful of joy. Black currant and black cherry waft up from the glass. Deep black fruit and loads of dark chocolate and espresso coat the entire mouth, huge, rich, and round. The mid-palate adds a touch of tart blackberry, adding acid-bright freshness.

Diodoros: Wine Among the Ruins

Michelle Locke
Feature Stories
3 min read
In Sicily, the Diodoros Project focuses on really old world wine. On a day that trembles between sunshine and showers, shafts of early morning sun slice through the clouds to light up the vineyard of Nero d’Avola grapes growing in this quiet corner of Sicily. It’s not a particularly unusual

What We’re Drinking – Meierer Riesling

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Pair this succulent sixteen dollar gem with peppery fried chicken, and it's a picnic any time of year.  The nose shows baked apple, honey, and a touch of ginger. It is sweet, but not cloying, on the palate, with 9% alcohol and 47 grams of residual sugar. That attack starts

Time for a truce on alcohol levels

W. Blake Gray
Features
4 min read
Is the battle over wine alcohol level over? Is it time to climb out of our World War I-type trenches? Last month, Constellation Brands unveiled a huge 8-country survey that asked regular wine drinkers whether they have bought, or would buy, lower-alcohol wine. Of respondents, 38% said they have and

Lightness and weight: an ode to Schioppettino

Simon J Woolf
Feature Stories
4 min read
One of the most beguiling things about Italy's finest red wine varieties is their balance between weight and complexity on the one hand, and finesse and lightness on the other. Milan Kundera spends the entire length of his classic 1984 novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” iterating over a similar