The mindful glass?

by Sarah Abbott MW
27 Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately: what life is then to a man that is without wine? for it was made to...

Calm down, dear

by Sarah Abbott MW
And those who are beautiful,who can contain them?Rainer Maria Rilke Remember this! No amount of Bacchic revelling can corrupt an honest women.Euripides, The Bacchae Last week a wine trade colleague...

Whose wine is it anyway?

by Sarah Abbott MW
“…and cool wine, fitting glove-like over those finer nerves that seem to tremble from the roof of my mouth and make it spread (as I drink) into a domed cavern,...

Fino’s context warning

by Sarah Abbott MW
Elegy V Here take my picture; though I bid farewellThine, in my heart, where my soul dwells, shall dwell. Tis like me now, but I dead, ‘twill be more When...

2008 Bordeaux revisited

by Sarah Abbott MW
Bordeaux is the most confident and comfortable of fine wines. Great Burgundy is like riding a runaway horse, bareback. Diving into a top Bordeaux is like being chauffeur driven in...