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Giving the Gift of Wine | Holiday Gift Guide 2021
IN VINO VERITAS by Jonathon AlsopNovember 22, 2021 Unlike the rest of the year, I try to be practical with wine gifts around the holidays. Does the full-grown wine lover […]
Ten Things Wine Pros Never Do That You Do All The Time
Our wine lives are full of rules, some expressed and some implied, that in theory are supposed to make things better and easier, rules that should keep us drinking the […]
What Gives Vino Its Veritas?
BOSTON, MA — “In Vino Veritas” doesn’t mean that wine contains some enduring, romantic, artistic truth. It means what we all know: when people drink wine, they talk. They speak truths […]
There’s More To Life Than Wine, But Really, It’s Wine
BOSTON, MA — Wine lovers are always looking for an excuse to get wine into the conversation, even in the cocktail world. Vermouth is a kind of herb infused wine […]
What We Write About When We Write About Wine
By Jonathon Alsop BOSTON, MA — First thing they teach you in journalism school is don’t write what you know. Go out into the great big world and find something […]
Wine Word Of The Month: “Lean”
By Jonathon Alsop BOSTON, MA — It’s hard to speak the language of wine because it’s a language invented by drunk people, but wine lovers blame themselves for the convoluted vocabulary. […]
3 Reasons Why You Can’t Stop Yourself From Falling In Love With Wine
By Jonathon Alsop BOSTON, MA — The language of love and the language of wine are completely interwoven in our culture, for better and for worse. For instance, if you fall […]
Southern Star Malbec: New world fruit, old world style
By Jonathon Alsop BOSTON, MA — Inventive holidays like International Malbec Day give us the chance to look deep into the many Malbec based wines we teach with in wine class. […]
Pinot To The People
By Jonathon Alsop BOSTON, MA — California makes more Pinot Noir than it grows, not by importing out-of-state wine, but by blending in other grapes. Technically, US wine only has […]