Wine and Passion
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Thoughts on a lesson about wine from a music class, and how you can improve your expertise by re-becoming a beginner.
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Mastering Wine With Michael
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The passing this week of the extraordinary wine expert Michael Broadbent gives rise to some wonderful memories of tasting wine with a Master.
Read MoreAll Abuzz About Bees and Bubbles
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How does a wine conjure fragments of memory? When I tasted a sparkling chardonnay from the Italian Alps and flashed back to my childhood in Vermont's Green Mountains, I blamed it on bees...
Read MoreWhy Tastings Work
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A wine festival gives Lyn an opportunity to think about wine, beer and the essence of the tasting experience.
Read MoreGoing Beyond the Recipe
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Michael Ruhlman's new book, a slender tome on the art of roasting, has some lessons for life as much as for the kitchen. Besides, everything Ruhlman writes makes me hungry, thirsty or both!
Read MoreGoing Nativa
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The French refer to a vine's rootstock as it's pied or "foot," and it takes only the slightest bit of literary license to believe that, like a person, you don't understand a wine until you've walked in its vines' shoes, or at least where the vine puts its "foot." Today, I walk with the vines in the vineyard's of Chilean organic winery Nativa.
Read MoreReconnoitering Roussillon
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Gerard Bertrand, retired rugby star with a lifelong passion for wine (and the street creds to back it up) talks about not just the vintage of the century but "the best vintage ever" in the South of France. Be forewarned - you will want these wines, but it's good to read up on them first.
Read MoreThe Success of Taste
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The opening post of Lyn's blog Engaging the Senses opens a dialogue on the nature of taste and how taste can be the gateway to much more than wine and food. Sounds heavy, so we've kept it short!
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