Category: Messages In A Bottle

Messages in a Bottle: What is an Honest Wine?
The other day, in the course of constructing a review, I found myself describing a wine as “honest.” And I

Messages in a Bottle: Ode to the Blended Wine
Growing up in America cripples us wine lovers from the very start. Sure, we are born into the land of

Messages In a Bottle: Stalking the Ten Dollar Wine
We’ve been chasing after them for as long as we’ve had legs to run and the extra brain cells required

Messages In a Bottle: What’s New in The Wine World
The wine world moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss

Messages In a Bottle: Wine Over Time
We all have times of silent reflection, meditation or prayer in which we voice to ourselves things both profound and

Messages In a Bottle: Appreciating Wine in Context
What did you think the first time you heard Mozart? Perhaps like me, you had a mother who would play

Messages In a Bottle: The Coming Revolution
They say that bees and dogs can smell fear. Those with good noses in the wine world can smell it

Messages In a Bottle: The Cook’s Wine Cellar
Whenever people find out that I write about wine, the first question is always “Wow. Do you make a living

Messages In a Bottle: The Better Half of My Palate
I heard my wife say something unbelievable last week. It just sort of popped out, casually, as we were putting

Messages In a Bottle: Trying to Taste a Place
It’s Spring now in the vineyards of Northern California. The mustard blossoms yellow between the rows of newly budded vines

Messages In a Bottle: The Razor’s Edge of Wine
That wine is getting better, for the majority of wine drinkers in the United States, can hardly be denied. By

Messages In A Bottle: The Taste Of Honey
Perhaps the greatest singular pleasure of wine for me, should I ever be held at gunpoint and forced to choose

Messages In a Bottle: Wine, Version 2.0
I’m a man, and a member of Generation X, which among other things means that I’m into gadgets. You might

Messages In a Bottle: A Year of Learning
I’m really not one for New Year’s resolutions. I’ve got no list (for you or for me) of must-drink wines

Messages In a Bottle: Wine Holidays
It’s that time of year, isn’t it? It’s just barely December and I can feel the holidays bearing down like

Messages In A Bottle: Disorientation and Diversity
The dialogue about wine in popular American culture usually fails to rise above a whisper. This is to say that

Messages In a Bottle: The 5 Stages of a Self Education in Wine
In the course of putting on wine dinners, attending and hosting wine tastings, and generally just drinking wine in public,

Messages In a Bottle: Characters In The Same Story
The bearded man with the diamond rings, who is nearly bursting the seams of his Armani tuxedo, grabs you around

Messages In a Bottle: The Wine Comedy
This afternoon I poured myself the last of a bottle that had been opened earlier in the week, and wandered