There’s a two-thousand-year-old law that technically banned people from planting new vineyards in Italy. Nobody’s enforced it in nearly two millennia. Nobody’s even tried in centuries. And here’s the part I love: the emperor who wrote it gave up enforcing it within his own lifetime. I stumbled onto this chasing…
Picture coming home from dinner with friends in ancient Rome. Before your husband asks how the evening went, he leans in and kisses you. Not hello. Not because he missed you. Because he’s checking whether you’ve been drinking. I read that sentence three times before I believed it wasn’t a…
Sarah Jessica Parker’s Wine Has 70 Gold Medals and One Very Weird Bottle This summer, Sarah Jessica Parker released a wine infused with jalapeño flavor. The idea came from a TikTok trend. People were dropping fresh jalapeño slices into their glass of white wine for a spicy kick. Someone at…
Somewhere in Lausanne, Switzerland, a team of fluid dynamicists spent years pointing high-speed cameras at glasses of wine. This was at one of the most serious engineering universities in Europe. Not because they wanted an excuse to drink on the job. Nobody had ever properly explained what happens when you…
You’ve done this. Stood in front of two nearly identical bottles — same region, same grape, same price — except one says Riserva. And you picked the Riserva, because obviously that’s the upgrade. Wine’s version of paying extra for legroom. I did this for years before I actually looked into…
A sweet red from Emilia-Romagna nobody takes seriously. A crisp white with a reputation it can’t shake. A pale, pretty red from a lake, dismissed by critics who like their wine louder. A sparkling wine so light it once didn’t legally qualify as wine in America. A Sicilian red bulk-shipped…
Every write-up of Aglianico eventually says the same thing: it’s the Barolo of the South. I read close to fifteen wine guides while researching this piece, and every single one reached for that exact phrase within the first paragraph. At some point that stops being a description and starts being…
Have you ever scrolled LinkedIn and thought — who hurt these people? The thought leaders who post about waking up at 4am. The CEOs who are “humbled and grateful” every single Monday. Meanwhile, there are people who turn a flight delay into a lesson about resilience. Well. I’ve been thinking….
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