Let’s Keep Wine Democratic
by Andy Neather
The wine market’s extremes are getting more extreme. Late last month Yellow Tail owner Casella Wines plunged to a AU$5.5 million [£2.9 million] loss, against a background of contraction in...
Topic: wine
The Bare Canvas
by John Atkinson MW
The psychoanalyst, Donald Winnicott, observed of creative life that, “It is a joy to be hidden and a disaster not to be found.” Van Gogh’s work was unappreciated for most...
The Perfect Gift
by Clare Tooley MW
I remember the first time I saw a four-leaf clover. I was five. It was gifted to me by a kind lady called June, a childhood friend of my mother....
Wine’s Third Wave
by Andy Neather
We may surmise that the Iran war’s impact on the wine trade is unlikely to be uppermost in the minds of Tehran or Dubai residents. Nevertheless, this economic shock will...
What You Want It To Be
by Peter Pharos
It feels odd today, but there was a time when science was considered an aristocratic pursuit. Tycho Brahe was a nexus of Danish noble lineage, Lavoisier was the intellectual face...
Travelling Light
by Margaret Rand
‘Trouble is,’ said my old friend, ‘that’s just not what I want to drink any more.’ He was referring to the cellar he’d built up over 30 years and more:...
Wine, Liberty And The Birth Of Economics
by Charlie Leary
Wine shaped the earliest debates about trade, taxation and political authority far more than we usually admit. As the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether a president can impose sweeping global...
Making It Count
by Peter Pharos
Early in Charles Dickens’s A Tale Of Two Cities, a wine cask rolls out of a cart in a Paris street. It promptly breaks, spilling its contents. Hilarity ensues. Men...
Colour Blind
by Tim Atkin
As an 18-year-old student in the United States, I took a course in the humanities. One of the books we used was called Learning to Look by Joshua C. Taylor....
Drinking Together
by Tim Atkin
Patrick McGovern was sometimes described as the Indiana Jones of wine, but this always struck me as wide of the mark. It was hard to imagine him wielding a bullwhip,...
The Lost Domain
by Harry Eyres
Alain-Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes, published the year before the author died in action in 1914, is one of the most haunting and haunted novels ever written. Meaulnes, the restless, rebellious,...
The Death Of Nostalgia
by Tom Hewson
Something was eating away at me; had I written this piece before? Or had somebody else? The only result that came up after a hasty sanity check was an obscure...