Grapes

Wines Without Borders

by Thor Iverson | November 14, 2008
When it comes to certain regions and cuisines, versatile vino is key “Drink the wines of a region with the foods of that region.” It’s advice I’d been given in the newbie days of my oenophilia, and it had stuck with me. But here, in a restaurant in Oslo... Read More »

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Can't buy my love

by Thor Iverson | November 03, 2008
The mystery of great wines that aren't on the shelves The Rhys 2006 Pinot Noir Swan Terrace , from the Santa Cruz Mountains, is as delicious a New World pinot as I’ve ever tasted. It tastes like tiny wild berries on a rocky promontory and smells like... Read More »

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Label Chaser

by Thor Iverson | September 08, 2008
One of the most useful college lessons is that an awful lot of what you thought you knew was wrong. Sometimes, it’s just an everyday loss of innocence — the discovery that the world is a lot more complex than you’d thought back in high school — but sometimes... Read More »

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Screw it

by Thor Iverson | August 25, 2008
Wine openers with a twist “Does anyone have a corkscrew?” Ask this at any random gathering and you’ll likely be handed a medieval instrument of cork torture, the winged auger . Here’s how it works: you angle the “wings” upward, push the screw into the... Read More »

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