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…
If Italian sparkling wine is having a decent year while everything else struggles, there’s an obvious explanation. Prosecco. It’s always Prosecco, the bottle that conquered brunch, colonized the aperitivo hour. The one that convinced half the world that adding orange liquid to bubbles counts as a personality. Except Prosecco is…
Picture ordering a bottle of wine at a restaurant. The waiter opens it, pours you a taste, you nod your approval. Normal so far. Then the follow-up question arrives. “Would you like that at 14%, or shall we take it down a little?” I’m sorry, what? We’ve spent years learning…
I’ve seen bottles described as non-alcoholic Prosecco. Alcohol-free Prosecco. Zero-alcohol Prosecco. Prosecco alternatives. Prosecco-style sparkling wine. At some point I started wondering whether Prosecco itself had been informed about any of this. Because Italy has rules. Lots of rules. You cannot grow some Glera grapes wherever you fancy, put bubbles…
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…
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…
Here’s a story that sounds made up but genuinely isn’t. Sometime in the 13th century, Florence and Siena were locked in one of their endless territorial disputes, this time over the Chianti hills sitting between them. Rather than fight it out indefinitely, the two cities agreed to settle it with…
There are two kinds of people in a restaurant. The first picks up the wine cork, gives it a confident sniff, nods once, and acts like they’ve just solved a mystery. The second secretly wonders if they’re supposed to do the same. If you’re in the second group, welcome. You’re…
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