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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads August 5, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, our editors recommend longreads by Janelle Nanos, Paloma Pacheo, Radley Balko, Claire McNear, and Tad Friend.

Posted inEditor's Pick

What Does It Take to Become a Wine Superpower?

by benhuberman June 23, 2020October 19, 2022

Canada is a leading exporter of maple syrup, oil, and bacon. Wine? Not so much. A French transplant in British Columbia is trying to change that.

Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Before You Eat or Drink Anything, Ask An Expert

by Aaron Gilbreath February 5, 2019October 19, 2022

Now tat certified taste experts specialize in a range of foods, from hot sauce to honey, is taste becoming too codified?

Posted inBusiness, Food, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Pair These Wines With Armageddon and Veal

by Aaron Gilbreath August 27, 2018October 19, 2022

A California cult had more success producing award-winning wine than sustaining their religion, so why are thousands of bottles gathering dust in a storeroom?

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes

‘Booze Is the Oil in Our Motors’

by michelleweber August 22, 2016October 19, 2022

Is it really that hard, being a First World woman? Is it really so tough to have the career and the spouse and the pets and the herb garden and the core strengthening and the oh-I-just-woke-up-like-this makeup and the face injections and the Uber driver who might possibly be a rapist? Is it so hard […]

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

China’s Booming Domestic Wine Industry

by Aaron Gilbreath August 21, 2015October 19, 2022

Although eighty-three percent of the wine China drinks is produced domestically, and baijiu grain alcohol is still its favorite alcohol, that’s changing. China is now the world’s fifth largest wine producer. In The California Sunday Magazine, Amy Qin writes about the changing taste of Chinese drinkers, and profiles Ma Qingyun, one producer who is helping […]

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Why Bordeaux Consumption in the U.S. Has Been Declining Since the ’80s

by juliawick August 14, 2015October 19, 2022

Yet, while the trajectory of Petrus [a major Bordeaux wine estate] has been ever upward (and its price as well), the consumption of Bordeaux in the United States has been declining since hitting its peak in market share in the mid-’80s. Even the boozy precincts of France have become less boozy—about their wine, at least. […]

Posted inMember Pick, Nonfiction, Story

The House of Mondavi: How an American Wine Empire Was Born

by Longreads June 17, 2014October 19, 2022

The story of a family’s winery that changed Napa Valley forever.

Posted inMember Pick, Nonfiction

The House of Mondavi: How an American Wine Empire Was Born

by Longreads June 17, 2014October 19, 2022

The story of a family’s winery that changed Napa Valley forever.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

The Pagan Rituals of Modern Winemaking

by Longreads May 30, 2014October 19, 2022

I had come back to AmByth to help hasten the vines’ resurrection by taking part in a ritual. I’d been invited the month before, while dining with Philip Hart and his wife, Mary. We’d talked for several hours that night, around their fireplace, wine glasses in hand. They asked me why I was so interested […]

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