One of Shakespeare’s most quoted stage directions is five words long: “Exit, pursued by a bear.” It comes from The Winter’s Tale. The man exiting is Antigonus, and he doesn’t make it. It’s a bleak moment, but it somehow became one of the funniest lines in theatre, and then an…
Yes, you read that right, and one of her best ideas was an accident. Picture a winery tank, half full of alcohol-free sparkling wine. Now picture someone topping it up with full-strength still wine. Wrong wine, wrong tank. In most jobs, that’s a disciplinary meeting. In wine, it turned out…
Picture Gérard Depardieu in gumboots, crouched in a row of Pinot Noir vines in Nuits-Saint-Georges, buying his first vineyard. It’s 1979. Cyrano de Bergerac, the role that would make him a household name outside France, is still a decade away. He’s not a star cashing in on a winery. He’s…
Cameron Diaz has never been quiet about what she thinks belongs in a human body. In her own wellness book, she made the case that just because you can chew something, swallow it, and eventually pass it, that doesn’t make it food. It’s blunt, it’s a little disgusting, and it’s…
Millions of Americans knew his face. Almost nobody today knows his name. For decades, one man’s warm, easy grin was the face of one of the biggest wine and brandy brands in the country, splashed across advertisements from coast to coast, in full black robe and white collar, looking every…
Ask almost anyone how to pair wine with dinner and you’ll probably hear the same answer. Fish gets white wine. Meat gets red. Simple, neat, easy to remember. It’s also one of those rules that starts falling apart the moment you spend enough time eating in Italy. Not because Italians…
Most people in this series discovered wine and fell in love with it. Bought a vineyard, planted some grapes, lived the dream. Jay-Z built a Champagne empire because someone disrespected him. And honestly? That’s a far better story. First, A Quick Word About Cristal If you were anywhere near a…
This might be the most controversial thing I write on this blog. Not because Italians don’t love food. They absolutely do. This is a country that can turn a conversation about pasta into a family argument lasting three generations. But after spending time around Italian wine culture, I’ve become convinced…
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