What: Monastero Suore Cistercensi, “Coenobium Rusticum” (45 percent Trebbiano, 35 percent Malvasia, 20 percent Verdicchio) When: 2010 Where: Vitorchiano, Italy (30 miles north of Rome) Who: Sisters of the Cistercian, under the guidance of Giampiero Bea, son and proté... Read More
When the weather can’t decide between winter and spring, white Rhones are the wine equivalent of the lightweight springtime coat that suits your mood and the hint of approaching warmth to come. After several consecutive months of heavy spending through the holidays and Vale... Read More
Let’s face it: We all have a secret vision of what our life is going to look like. Maybe you’ve always imagined you’d be a best-selling novelist, living in the English countryside with Sting as your neighbor. Or you thought you’d be an acclaimed marine bio... Read More
What first caught my attention about this wine was the name, which was clever enough, and then the eye-catching label. Then I was really impressed when I learned that OneHope donates 50 percent of the proceeds to charitable causes ranging from cancer research, autism, AIDS, child... Read More
The universal problem with most wine writing is that it tends to be pretentious or boring or both. Natalie MacLean’s second wine book, Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World’s Best Bargain Wines, is definitely not typical wine writing. As with her first book, Red, ... Read More