Chardonnay: The Blank Canvas of White Wine
One grape sits behind flinty Chablis, buttery Napa, the backbone of Champagne and the most expensive dry white wine in the world. Here is how to read a Chardonnay.
Dessert Wine: The Two Ways to Get This Sweet
Sauternes and vintage Port are both dessert wine, but they get sweet through almost opposite processes. Here's how noble rot, freezing, drying, and fortification each work.
Piedmont Wine Region: Where Wine Never Learned to Hurry
The same fog that names Nebbiolo settles over the whole of Piedmont most autumn mornings — and the region has never been in a hurry to see it burn off.…
Nebbiolo: The Grape That Refuses to Leave Home
Nebbiolo explained: why it looks nothing like it tastes, why Barolo and Barbaresco differ, and why this grape barely grows outside Piedmont.