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Toward a New Lexicon for American Wine

Can we reclaim the word “artisanal”? Perhaps we should look to France, and French cheese, for a solution. Hear me out.

May 7, 2020

Toward a New Lexicon for American Wine

May 7, 2020

Young Red Wine: A Critic’s Doubts

Evaluating new wine is an exercise in predicting the future. But how worthy is this exercise anyway?

Mar 16, 2020

Young Red Wine: A Critic’s Doubts

Mar 16, 2020

Cellars at Jasper Hill Farm Weybridge

Piquant, savory, and rich, a cheese that’s both earthy and elegant

May 19, 2017

Cellars at Jasper Hill Farm Weybridge

May 19, 2017

Visiting Owen Roe Washington

Wines of Owen Roe balance sunshine and freshness

May 7, 2017

Visiting Owen Roe Washington

May 7, 2017

Getting Closure: Tasting 2010 Clos Roche Blanche L’Arpent Rouge

This bottle came my way about a year and a half ago, in a mixed case of samples finished with the synthetic Nomacorc closure. The idea was…

May 4, 2017

Getting Closure: Tasting 2010 Clos Roche Blanche L’Arpent Rouge

May 4, 2017

Own-Rooted: A Vine Stock Nursery Story

Phylloxera is a global scourge. Mostly.

Apr 30, 2017

Own-Rooted: A Vine Stock Nursery Story

Apr 30, 2017

Figgins Estate, Walla Walla Valley

Winemaker Chris Figgins crafts a blend of Bordeaux grapes washed by mountain air

Apr 25, 2017

Figgins Estate, Walla Walla Valley

Apr 25, 2017

Lazy Lady Farm Thin Red Line

Mushroomy and umami-rich, it’s a natural with lightly sweet wines

Apr 23, 2017

Lazy Lady Farm Thin Red Line

Apr 23, 2017

Backward and Forward: Tasting Napa Cabernet Sauvignon, 1974 to Now

When tasting twelve wines, which do you taste first: the very old, or the far too young?

Mar 12, 2017

Backward and Forward: Tasting Napa Cabernet Sauvignon, 1974 to Now

Mar 12, 2017

Meg Maker

Meg Maker

Writer curious about nature, culture, food, wine, and place. Founder terroirreview.com @terroirreview. Also at megmaker.com @megmaker.

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