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February 22, 2019
No country’s wines have been stereotyped more than Australia’s. When we think of them, we often think: big, thick, soft, and simple. But Australia makes scores of beautifully delineated, complex wines that are both structured and refined. Plus, they often taste like they cost more than they do. Based on eight recent tasting sessions, here […]
January 4, 2019
As Champagne is in France or Port is in Portugal, Sherry is Spain’s most complex and labor-intensive wine. It was also once Spain’s (maybe the world’s) most tragically forgotten wine. But in the last few years, the hauntingly delicious and complex world of Sherry has broken out into the open once again. And no wonder, […]
December 28, 2018
It’s been a phenomenal year. In addition to all of the wines I’ve tasted and written about for articles in 2018, we chose a different, extraordinary “Wine to Know” each week for 52 editions of WineSpeed. Looking back over those top wines, any one of them could have been our “Wine of the Year.” But […]
December 21, 2018
Every year in the lead-up to New Years, I buy panettone. Not just one of the golden-topped Champagne-cork-shaped breads—many of them. Which I then devour with glasses of fizzy moscato or keemun tea. But this year, quite by accident, I bought the panettone of a lifetime. Good thing too because it cost a whopping $60. […]
