Wine Chatbots
by Peter Pharos
Sometime in the next couple of years Robert Joseph will buy me a bottle of wine. I believe the erstwhile wine correspondent of the Daily Telegraph to be a man...
Peter Pharos
Peter Pharos likes to drink, talk and write about the wines of Greece and Italy.
He writes a bimonthly column, either covering Greek and Italian wine or discussing vinous matters from an oenophile’s perspective.
Articles by Peter Pharos
A Brief Australian Fling
by Peter Pharos
I love Australia, because it shows you what California would look like if the South had won the Civil War. You get so few good counterfactuals in history. And I love...
Insider Talk
by Peter Pharos
“When art critics get together,” Picasso is meant to have said, “they talk about form and structure and meaning. When artists get together, they talk about where you can buy...
Wine Cultures
by Peter Pharos
I think it was the bottle filled with urine that did it in the end. I felt bad for my friend. This was meant to be the evening of a...
Christmas Wine
by Peter Pharos
You can tell a lot about a business by the film it chooses as representative of its customers. In the case of wine, the everlasting popularity of Sideways among professionals...
The Good Old Days
by Peter Pharos
The past is a foreign country we get to rule as we wish. It is as we say it was and as we sit back to have some wine, talk...
The Spirit, Not The Letter
by Peter Pharos
Engaging in wine discourse means you get to meet more strawmen than a crow. Usually, those are conveniently arranged in dipoles. There are the consumer champions, speaking for The People,...
Santorini Assyrtiko 2022 Report
by Peter Pharos
It is rather unlucky, if not downright unwise, to start producing a report on a grape variety at a point in time where its prime terroir underperformed. When I compiled...
The Good Wine Writer
by Peter Pharos
Someone once told me that nothing in wine media gets page views like writing about wine writing. No one seems to be sure quite why this is the case. It...
What Is Real Wine?
by Peter Pharos
It is, perhaps, a blessing that nobody has claimed Real Wine as a product category, just yet at least. The intention, however, is certainly there. Natural wine might be the...
Wine Trade Blues
by Peter Pharos
The most fascinating job title I’ve ever run across is grain merchant. A friend had just moved to London and decided to spend the first few months living big, which...
None More Black
by Peter Pharos
People who talk about wine rarely mention their conflicts of interest, so let me put mine front and centre: my first dinner date with my now wife included a bottle...