not drinking poison in paris

Upon arriving in Paris, one can take pleasure in almost any characterful feature of the city, regardless of fame or exclusivity. For six ...

To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the ...

The other evening I had the occasion to follow up on a surprising recommendation I'd received in March from Guardian wine columnist...

On a rainy morning in April, over some barrel samples of his and his son's old vine Morgon and Régnié (respectively), I mentioned to ...

Young Fleurie-based winemaker Jules Métras released his first wine under his own name this year, a Beaujolais-Villages sourced from tw...

Jordan Mackay. Someone get this man a glass of Métras. I write now and then for an NYC-based website called PUNCH , whose stated purpos...

A common wine writing trope is to conclude that a wine resembles its maker in some way or another. Nowhere is this less  applicable than ...

Jean-Claude Lapalu occupies an interesting position in the pantheon of contemporary Beaujolais. The son and grandson of winegrowers, he ...

As diners and critics, we're willing to discern greater depths in a chef's plates if he or she has led a swashbuckling lifestyle,...

Some tasting appointments in Beaujolais are difficult to obtain because a given winemaker's work is so sought-after that he or she ...

When I first wrote about Jane Drotter's splendid contemporary bistrot YARD in April 2014 , I couldn't help expressing astonishm...

Everything about  Entrée des Artistes Pigalle  proprietors Fabien Lombardi and Edouard Vermynck's previous bar-à-manger on rue de C...

Tucked among the fulsome green hills of Sagy-le-Haut is the cellar of Julien Guillot, the charming third-generation winemaker of biodynam...

I credit former La Cave de l'Insolite proprietor Michel Moulherat for introducing me to natural wine. His wasn't the closest win...

Paris has streets that hide in plain sight - overlooked byways that, due to poor sun exposition or traffic redundancy, get circumvented b...

So much has been written about Abruzzese winemaker Emidio Pepe 's majestic montepulciani and the ethereal delicacy of his equally a...