Wine -- Mise en abyme

Prior to the Spanish monks planting their first vines in California (1769; then part of Alta California, a colonial property of Spain), the...

The Spanish were directly responsible for the drubbing of French wines at the hands of the American upstarts at the Judgment of Paris tastin...

As illustrated in my graphical summation of the history of wine styles -- described in Lukacs' Inventing Wine: A New History of one of t...

In a previous post , I reported on Isabelle Legereon's issues with modern-day winemaking (as presented in her book  Natural Wine ) and u...