Beauty and the Wine

Beauty and the Wine

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In the Shadow of Wine: My Thursday Shift Inside Milan's 16th-Century Wine Vault 🍷🕯️

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In the Shadow of Wine: My Thursday Shift Inside Milan's 16th-Century Wine Vault 🍷🕯️

In the Shadow of Wine: My Thursday Shift Inside Milan's 16th-Century Wine Vault 🍷🕯️ Some bars you visit. Tonight I worked one. N'Ombra de Vin sits at Via San Marco 2 in Brera, and the name is a love…

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Making Wine, Making Winemakers: My Campus Wine Study at Charles Sturt University 🍇📚

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Making Wine, Making Winemakers: My Campus Wine Study at Charles Sturt University 🍇📚

Making Wine, Making Winemakers: My Campus Wine Study at Charles Sturt University 🍇📚 Some campuses teach wine. This one is wine. Out in the Riverina, in country New South Wales where the sky goes on…

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Slow Gold: A Private Poolside Tasting at São Lourenço do Barrocal, Alentejo 🌾🍷

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Slow Gold: A Private Poolside Tasting at São Lourenço do Barrocal, Alentejo 🌾🍷

Slow Gold: A Private Poolside Tasting at São Lourenço do Barrocal, Alentejo 🌾🍷 There's a moment in October when the Alentejo stops pretending to be anywhere else. The harvest is in, the summer heat…

2 days ago

The World's Longest Table: My Monday Inside SIAL Paris 2026, Where Cristal Meets Tignanello 🥂🇫🇷

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The World's Longest Table: My Monday Inside SIAL Paris 2026, Where Cristal Meets Tignanello 🥂🇫🇷

The World's Longest Table: My Monday Inside SIAL Paris 2026, Where Cristal Meets Tignanello 🥂🇫🇷 Bonjour from the biggest table in the food and wine world. This week — October 17 through 21, 2026 —…

3 days ago

The Last Sweet Sunday: An Outdoor Wine Party Above the Sea at Furore, Amalfi Coast 🍋🥂

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The Last Sweet Sunday: An Outdoor Wine Party Above the Sea at Furore, Amalfi Coast 🍋🥂

The Last Sweet Sunday: An Outdoor Wine Party Above the Sea at Furore, Amalfi Coast 🍋🥂 There are Sundays that fade quietly, and then there are Sundays that pour gold into you until the glass runs dry.…

4 days ago

Three Stars After Dark: A Candlelit Saturday at Frantzén, Stockholm 🕯️🍷

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Three Stars After Dark: A Candlelit Saturday at Frantzén, Stockholm 🕯️🍷

Three Stars After Dark: A Candlelit Saturday at Frantzén, Stockholm 🕯️🍷 Stockholm in mid-October is made for exactly this kind of night — the city slips into candlelight by late afternoon, and there…

5 days ago

Wine of Kings, King of Wines: A Golden October Friday at Disznókő, Tokaj

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Wine of Kings, King of Wines: A Golden October Friday at Disznókő, Tokaj

Wine of Kings, King of Wines: A Golden October Friday at Disznókő, Tokaj There are vineyards you visit, and there are vineyards that choose you. Disznókő — "Boar's Stone" in Hungarian — chose me at…

6 days ago

Heaven on Earth, Behind the Bar: My Thursday Shift at Ved Stranden 10

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Heaven on Earth, Behind the Bar: My Thursday Shift at Ved Stranden 10

Heaven on Earth, Behind the Bar: My Thursday Shift at Ved Stranden 10 Copenhagen in mid-October is when the city trades its long northern evenings for candlelight. The canal lamps flicker on before…

Oct 15, 2026

Syllabus & Cabernet's Spicy Secret: Campus Wine Study at Nanjing Agricultural University 🍇📚

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Syllabus & Cabernet's Spicy Secret: Campus Wine Study at Nanjing Agricultural University 🍇📚

Syllabus & Cabernet's Spicy Secret: Campus Wine Study at Nanjing Agricultural University 🍇📚 There's a moment every October when Nanjing stops pretending to be a city and becomes a perfume. Osmanthus…

Oct 14, 2026

Spring at the Jewel of the Cape: A Private Poolside Tasting at Delaire Graff Estate 💎🌊

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Spring at the Jewel of the Cape: A Private Poolside Tasting at Delaire Graff Estate 💎🌊

Spring at the Jewel of the Cape: A Private Poolside Tasting at Delaire Graff Estate 💎🌊 While the northern hemisphere is busy stomping through harvest, I flew south — because October in the Cape…

Oct 13, 2026

Big Apple, Bigger Pours: Inside Wine Spectator's 45th New York Wine Experience 🍎🥂

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Big Apple, Bigger Pours: Inside Wine Spectator's 45th New York Wine Experience 🍎🥂

Big Apple, Bigger Pours: Inside Wine Spectator's 45th New York Wine Experience 🍎🥂 Darlings, trade-show Monday called — and this time the badge around my neck reads New York. In ten days, Times Square…

Oct 12, 2026

The Last Glass of the Vendimia: Closing Out Rueda's Harvest Festival in a Cloud of Verdejo 🍇✨

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The Last Glass of the Vendimia: Closing Out Rueda's Harvest Festival in a Cloud of Verdejo 🍇✨

The Last Glass of the Vendimia: Closing Out Rueda's Harvest Festival in a Cloud of Verdejo 🍇✨ Darlings — I planned a garden party this Sunday, and Spain out-planned me. The XXXVI Fiesta de la…

Oct 11, 2026

Three Stars & a Cabinet of Mushrooms: A Candlelit Saturday at The Ledbury, Notting Hill 🕯️🍷

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Three Stars & a Cabinet of Mushrooms: A Candlelit Saturday at The Ledbury, Notting Hill 🕯️🍷

Three Stars & a Cabinet of Mushrooms: A Candlelit Saturday at The Ledbury, Notting Hill 🕯️🍷 Some Saturdays are for dancing. Last night was for the other kind of decadence — the slow, candlelit kind,…

Oct 10, 2026

Spring, Silk & Australia's Greatest Chardonnay: A Signature Friday at Leeuwin Estate

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Spring, Silk & Australia's Greatest Chardonnay: A Signature Friday at Leeuwin Estate

Spring, Silk & Australia's Greatest Chardonnay: A Signature Friday at Leeuwin Estate Everyone up north is losing their minds over harvest crush right now — and here I am doing it completely…

Oct 9, 2026

Red Light, Pour Decisions: My Thursday Night Behind the Bar at MXL, Seoul 🍷🏮

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Red Light, Pour Decisions: My Thursday Night Behind the Bar at MXL, Seoul 🍷🏮

Red Light, Pour Decisions: My Thursday Night Behind the Bar at MXL, Seoul 🍷🏮 Seoul after dark has a heartbeat, and tonight I found it in the least likely place: up a dim alley in Euljiro, the old…

Oct 8, 2026

Campus Wine Study: University of Verona — Where the Classroom Is a Vineyard and Amarone Concentrates (Literally) 🍇📚

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Campus Wine Study: University of Verona — Where the Classroom Is a Vineyard and Amarone Concentrates (Literally) 🍇📚

Campus Wine Study: University of Verona — Where the Classroom Is a Vineyard and Amarone Concentrates (Literally) 🍇📚 There's a moment every October in the Valpolicella hills above Verona when the…

Oct 7, 2026

Valle Gold & Chasselas: A Private Poolside Tasting at Encuentro Guadalupe, Baja California 🍾🌊

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Valle Gold & Chasselas: A Private Poolside Tasting at Encuentro Guadalupe, Baja California 🍾🌊

Valle Gold & Chasselas: A Private Poolside Tasting at Encuentro Guadalupe, Baja California 🍾🌊 There are pool days, and then there are Valle days. High in Mexico's Valle de Guadalupe — barely ninety…

Oct 6, 2026

Cards, Corks & Champagne Towers: My Monday Inside ProWine Shanghai 2026, China's Power Table of Wine 🥂🇨🇳

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Cards, Corks & Champagne Towers: My Monday Inside ProWine Shanghai 2026, China's Power Table of Wine 🥂🇨🇳

Cards, Corks & Champagne Towers: My Monday Inside ProWine Shanghai 2026, China's Power Table of Wine 🥂🇨🇳 Darlings, trade-show Mondays are my favorite kind of electricity. Today I'm walking you…

Oct 5, 2026

Sundresses & Supras: A Rtveli Harvest Sunday at Château Mukhrani 🍇✨

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Sundresses & Supras: A Rtveli Harvest Sunday at Château Mukhrani 🍇✨

Sundresses & Supras: A Rtveli Harvest Sunday at Château Mukhrani 🍇✨ Darlings, I've danced through harvest parties on three continents, but nothing — nothing — prepared me for my first Rtveli. This is…

Oct 4, 2026

Truffle Season, Starlit: A Candlelit Three-Star Evening at Piazza Duomo, Alba 🕯️🍷

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Truffle Season, Starlit: A Candlelit Three-Star Evening at Piazza Duomo, Alba 🕯️🍷

Truffle Season, Starlit: A Candlelit Three-Star Evening at Piazza Duomo, Alba 🕯️🍷 Alba in early October is a town holding its breath. The nebbiolo harvest has just left the Langhe hills, the cellars…

Oct 3, 2026

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