About Wine
Writing about treasures both old and new….
What is a Good Wine?
Oh no, this question. One of those, “Why is the sky blue? Or, “What is happiness?” -type questions that turn into sweaty, 10,000-word essays. Fighting my instincts, I’ll try to keep this much shorter. A wine is an unfeeling item minimal used for our nourishment and...
Semantics: Winemaker vs. Vintner
In English, what do you call someone who makes wine? Easy, “winemaker;” and darn it, it’s been that way for centuries since Middle English so don’t go complaining… Ah, there’s a peccadillo with your Pinot, you say? “Winemaker” has unsavory connotations? “Winemaker”...
It’s All About the “Winemaker” Again
Trends come and go and come again. I remember my earliest days discovering fine wine, pedalling a bike by the clays and sands of Pomerol, or eyeing the Günzian gravel of Pauillac. Touring various châteaux, our hosts credited these soils with providing complexity and...
Uncle Jozef Král – The Root
Where do top Pálava Hills makers like Gala, and Nepraš & Co. find their base? Certainly not in the Communist cooperative of yesteryear. Yes, they look towards France or Germany, but they don’t bring in soil from those places. No, they root down and find themselves...
The Degustarium
The Degustarium The door opens to a little girl tottering around a long table of blond, broad, raw wood, a group of 3 or four people sitting on similarly-styled benches, a couple working behind a simple bar, all the scene illuminated by low lamps hanging from an...