In-depth explorations of regions, grapes, and styles
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Some of the best bottles in the Bangkok market are also some of the quietest. Every wine list gravitates toward the same…
Order a glass of white wine at almost any Bangkok restaurant, and there's a strong chance Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc ar…
Italy makes wine from over 350 native grape varieties across 20 regions — no other country comes close to that complexit…
Ask a sommelier what they'd drink if they could only choose one white wine grape for the rest of their career, and a sur…
Bangkok does not appear on lists of the world's great wine cities. Tokyo does — for its fanatical cellar culture and pri…
Every wine conversation in Bangkok eventually turns to Tuscany — Chianti, Brunello, Super Tuscans. Meanwhile, Veneto qui…
Fifty years ago, Malbec was a supporting actor — a blending grape in Bordeaux, added for colour and body and then largel…
Burgundy is a 60km ribbon of limestone hillside running south from Dijon. The Côte d'Or — the "slope of gold" — is divid…
Spain plants more vineyard hectares than any country on earth — yet nine out of ten buyers at the wine shop reach straig…
France's largest wine region stretches across the entire Mediterranean south — bigger than Bordeaux and Burgundy combine…
You asked for "something different" and the bartender brought you a glass of wine that looked like iced tea. No, it hasn…
There is a wine made from a grape that contradicts itself at every turn: pale garnet in the glass (you'd mistake it for …