Recent content by mark e

No one has ever better and more articulately defined my credo.

Chic, maybe not. But smoked eel is widely available in Europe. And the pairing does not seem that odd, either.

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It definitely had a very minty note every vintage, as did the wines of Sean Thackrey, who was also near a eucalyptus grove.

Again confusing parts of speech? And, no, varietal is not a noun.

Nonsense. You have conflated the use of a word you do not like (attempting, weakly, to substitute a word that is missing too many salient elements) with a grammatical issue (adv. vs noun). Enough.

Why use 3, 4 or 5+ when you can use one: terroir (soil (incl. its microbiome) + terrain + elevation + latitude + mesoclimate)?

The Mimmo yellow label I am looking at does not say 'Boca' only 'vino rosso'; the blue label wines say 'Boca'.

Sage words, tovarich.

Try this: http://archive.today/2026.01.06-154128/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/12/can-we-save-wine-from-wildfires

Anything but. Which is why some of us have drifted over to the nebbioli of Alto Piemonte.

I would say the opposite, but it really depends on which UK sparklers are imported and available vs. the literal sea of Champagne imported. Generally I would spend less than ½ for a UK méthode champenoise wine.

There are a couple of different bottlings. Assume you mean Ancien Nouveau, but whereas for US import there is an allowed range, we have to report the exact ABV. That is why the labels are often different.

Their loss. It is all quite interesting, and I have had a fair number of excellent ones.