I have been living in Italy for years now. I drink Italian wine regularly, I write about it obsessively, and I genuinely believe it is some of the finest wine on earth. And I had absolutely no idea this happened until I started digging. In the spring of 1986, Italy…
Most people hesitate before buying a $50 bottle of wine. Someone once spent $558,000. Not on a wine collection, not on a wine cellar. On a single bottle. The obvious question isn’t whether the wine was good. The real question is: who spends that much money on a bottle of…
I once watched a tourist stare at a glass of wine in Italy as if he’d just been personally insulted. The waiter arrived. He ordered a local red. The waiter poured the wine. Then walked away. The tourist looked down at the glass. Then at his wife. Then back at…
Terroir isn’t mysticism — geologists proved it. Natural wine isn’t a trend — it’s 8,000 years old. And the version of wine you think is “normal” was invented about 70 years ago. Buckle up. These wine facts about the history and origins of wine will permanently change how you think…
America gave the world jazz, the moon landing, and the cheeseburger. However, it also gave us some of the most spectacularly bizarre wine and alcohol laws ever written. Buckle up. Welcome back to our series on the world’s weirdest wine laws. In Part 1, we traveled the globe. We visited…
Think drinking wine is simple? Think again. From Napoleon’s grave to a Scottish cow field, these are the world’s strangest wine and alcohol laws — and some of them are still very much in effect. Here’s something nobody tells you when you uncork a bottle of wine. Somewhere in the…
Every year on May 25, social media suddenly turns into a vineyard. Instagram fills up with glowing glasses of rosé, rooftop wine nights, and people confidently swirling wine like they trained in Tuscany for six months. Restaurants begin posting wine pairings nobody can pronounce properly. Somebody somewhere opens a bottle…
Unveiling the Puzzling Motives Behind France’s Daring Wine Saga In a world where scarcity and value intertwine, one would hardly imagine a scenario where a country would willingly part ways with its most cherished and celebrated cultural symbol. Yet, in an unprecedented twist of events, France has set tongues wagging…
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