not drinking poison in paris

One advantage of traveling through wine regions with people who are totally uninterested in wine is that sometimes in bored desperation the...

I'm continually making idle chatter about the prospect of one day opening up a wine bar in Paris. The idea is very far from realisation...

I had been concerned, when agreeing to vacation in Italy in August, that we'd encounter nothing but summer closures wherever we went. M...

Because one of my favorite chefs and fellow natural wine afficionados requested it, here is an attempt at a summary in French of my recent...

The second-most curious thing about the inconsistently ambitious new 20ème bistro Le Chatomat is the name, which in American English sound...

My first reaction upon walking into Solativo Vinosteria , a wine bar in Ivrea until recently co-owned by the Ferrando family, was one of ...

After fleeing from the malevolent fraudulence on parade at last week's opening of " La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels ," my ...

I'm not yet so established as a wine writer that I don't still feel a residual bit of outsidery shame at contacting estates and ask...

This past Thursday I attended the opening of a sharp nightclubby wine bar in the 6ème off the Marché Saint Germain, the new project of the ...

I finally got around to popping into Frenchie Bar à Vin the other day. I was meeting a friend of a friend (now just friend) called T who w...

My first introduction to raclette service came shortly after my arrival in Paris, in the apartment of a colleague who had one of those spac...

On the way to Monforte d'Alba, where the Native Companion and I had booked a flat for a week with our friends J and C, we all spent a n...

I wouldn't consider myself assimilated by a long shot. But I've been in Paris long enough by now that there are times I don't f...

The Native Companion and I joined some restaurateur and bartender friends at a competitive coffee event in the 17ème the other evening, an...

I'm off to Piemonte this morning, with two brief stopovers in Switzerland. In Piemonte we'll be staying in Monforte d'Alba, see...

We arrived in Mâcon before sundown on Monday evening, and after stowing our bikes and showering in our murdery hotel we resolved to hit the...