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Everything I Needed To Know About Wine I Learned From Larry Bird

Everything I Needed To Know About Wine I Learned From Larry Bird By Jonathon Alsop, Boston Wine School Founder & Exec. Dir. The secret to great wine is the opposite of what most people think it is… but we can fix that. BOSTON MA USA April 17, 2023 Bill Simmons, the writer formerly known as […]

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 new and interesting that you don’t know, that ideally no one knows. Discover it, figure it out, understand something about it, then explain it to […]

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. Alma Andina – Soul of the Andes – hits the Boston Wine School trifecta: we use it in “Come To Cheeses” with Manchego, “Grape Expectations” […]