The Vineyard: Globalization is a wine phenomenon, too
Road Trip Story and photo by Alistair Highet When I’m not obsessing about wine, I’m obsessing about soccer (please allow me to call it football). What has been amazing over the last 20 years is how,...
View ArticleThe Vineyard: The white wines of Gascony
Cheap & Cheerful Story and photo by Alistar Highet/Life@Home So much is written about French wine that it is almost a relief to come across wines that appear beneath the contempt of wine writers,...
View ArticleThe Vineyard: Whites for the adventurer in you
Casanova’s Wine Story and photo by Alistair Highet/Life@Home Up in the northeast corner of Italy, near the border with Slovenia and in the region called Friuli, is a magnificent resort called Castello...
View ArticleThe Vineyard: Rethinking California Sauvignon Blanc
A Change of Taste Story and photo by Alistair Highet/Life@Home No grape varietal has such a broad, eclectic range of expressions — the talent of a truly great actor in a way — than Sauvignon Blanc. The...
View ArticleThe Vineyard: White wine, and Cazon en Adobo
Drinking in Cadiz Story and photo by Alistair Highet/Life@Home At the bottom of Spain, in Andalusia, and jutting into the Atlantic on a long spit of sand, is the ancient and enchanting city of Cadiz....
View ArticleThe Vineyard: More adventures on the rosé roundabout
The Eye of the Partridge Story and photo by Alistair Highet/Life@Home September is the best month of the summer — at least it always has been for me. June is abrupt, and damp, and I can’t decide what...
View ArticleThe Vineyard: Recalibrating the taste buds with affordable Italian classics
Coming Home Story and photo by Alistair Highet/Life@Home Probably we all have a “safe” place in our private wine world — a sanctuary where we know we will always be received with warmth, and the only...
View ArticleVineyard: Willamette Pinot
It can be too subtle — or just the right thing Story and photo by Alistair Highet/Life@Home I am ambivalent about Pinot Noir in general. I know, we are all supposed to gush over the wines made with...
View ArticleThe Vineyard: A great wine value from a rising power in the wine world
Washington State Merlot Story and photo by Alistair Highet/Life@Home It’s fun — if not particularly fair — to deal in sweeping generalizations where wine culture is concerned. So here’s one for you:...
View ArticleThe Vineyard: They know what they’re talking about
Staff Picks! Story and photo by Alistair Highet/Life@Home A few years ago, I would have hiked a long way around a rack of “staff picks” in my local wine store. For one thing, I don’t want to get into a...
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