Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the people, business and politics of the wine industry. “I buy wine based on what the label looks like.” Some people ...
“I want to know what the wines taste like!” said a reader about a recent column I had written describing how different appellations and their geography impact the wines that are grown in them. I get ...
Red foods for Juneteenth, Lucas Kwan Peterson’s salad days, a Pump-Tini-powered “Vanderpump Rules” restaurant crawl, Netflix’s IRL food show and a taqueria that brought in a priest to get employees to ...
After a long and distinguished run, Counter Intelligence, our weekly newsletter that rounded up the best of our Food section, is entering a new chapter. Why? A couple reasons: 1. That rubric — the ...
No, it’s not that simple. Reviews and reviewers vary in their approach. To be fair, so do wines. Some wines have a dominating feature with details that emerge on the finish. Others might build into a ...
To get you to buy a bottle of champagne, M. Cole Chilton, the face who was always behind the counter of my neighborhood wine store in Brooklyn, would send out emails with elaborate descriptions: "I ...
Every few years, we’re told about some new “greatest whiskey in the world.” This was the case back in 2015, when a lesser-known Taiwanese whisky, Kavalan Vinho Barrique, was named the best single malt ...
The Journal of Wine Economics, Volume 13, Number 4, 2019 includes an abstract titled, "Does Blind Tasting Work? Investigating the Impact of Training on Blind Tasting Accuracy and Wine Preference." The ...