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Is wine becoming sweeter?

Erika Szymanski
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5 min read
Last week, the Smithsonian broke conceptual ground on a frozen “botanical garden,” storing samples of current plant life for future eventualities. I wish someone had thought to do the same for wine over the centuries, but freezing wasn't invented early enough. Even the glass bottle wasn't invented in time for

Wine museums: Drinking with culture

Elisabetta Tosi
Feature Stories
3 min read
What if you decide to visit a wine collection on your vacation or, even better, a museum entirely devoted to the amazing world of wine, for a change? When we say that “wine is culture” we are not just repeating a tremendous cliché, we are stating a simple truth. Wine

Mallorca: the Galápagos of grapes

W. Blake Gray
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7 min read
This might be the first serious wine article about Mallorcan wine in English since the advent of the Internet. In the pre-html era, Pliny the Elder praised it. Food & Wine's Ray Isle visited Mallorca in 2005, but his article was – duh! – about food AND wine. So I'm the guy to

Eat on the street (and drink!) in Italy

Elisabetta Tosi
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4 min read
One of the best parts of traveling in Italy is, without a doubt, the food and drink (mainly wine) that you find there. There are so many good restaurants everywhere in Italy you can choose where to go according to your taste – and your wallet of course. However, the

Comté and the terroir of cheese

Mary Cressler
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9 min read
I’d only been in the region a few hours. I was tired and jetlagged after twenty hours of travel and a nine-hour time difference. But our guide at the museum, our first stop, decided to wake us all up by giving us a playful quiz – an activity to awaken our