ShareWhen I enjoyed some selections from my cellar with my fellow board members at a private environmental/reproductive rights foundation last weekend, little did they know I was writing up their tasting notes. I’d chosen the wines to reflect Noyes’s funding priorities, which helped, because some board members are wine novices, so the foundation-related nicknames I [...]

ShareThe indications have been around since the much-publicized “French Paradox,” i.e., the observation that although the French people exist on foie gras and rich sauces, they live longer: Red wine, the health experts theorized, is an important part of the “mediterranean diet” and might keep those smoking, meuniere-loving Frenchies so healthy.
In the latest development, scientists [...]

ShareWine can be intimidating enough. There’s red, white, or pink; Old World or New, “first growth” or grand cru. So why did they have to go and name some of it gewürztraminer? I’ve already introduced you to that other wonderful white that suffers so in the recognition department, not because it tastes weird or unmemorable, [...]

ShareAs a send-off to myself, I offered to raid my cellar for a wine-and-cheese reception at the last meeting of my term on the board of a New York City-based foundation. But then I realized, they don’t let you on the plane now with liquids. When the ban went into place, most people worried aloud [...]

ShareWhile preparing for a trip to Chile not too long ago — made possible by a companion airfare deal, the name of which turned out to be ironic — I fretted over how, exactly, to refer to my wife when we arrived in this exciting though deeply conservative country. (At the time, not even straight [...]