Decanting or recorking?
How to aerate a wine, with Frédéric Domingo
Breathe Deep: Rituals of a Cellar Master
In search of lost rituals. Once de rigueur, some winemaking techniques have given way to newer practices. Today, innovation is not without tradition.
Gone With the Winds
Assemblage
In our cellars, we blend grape varieties; in our Journal, we blend ideas. This time, it's a rather airy lexicon. The winds make the weather fair or foul. But do they also make the wines? Here's an overview of those that blow over our vineyards, from the tramontane to the typhoon.
Assemblage
In each issue's 'assemblage' section, we compose a blend of shorter snippets relating to the theme.
Épaulé-Jeté
The Bodies behind the Body
The weight-lifting phrase épaulé jeté, in English ‘clean and jerk’, or more literally in French, ‘shouldered-throw’, became immortalised in the oenological sense by the illustrator Michel Tolbert whose iconic posters for Catherine & Pierre Breton’s Bourgeiul and Chinon estate are now replicated in wine bars across the world.
A question of etiquette
A FAMILY TREE OF LAFITE LABELS.
Why not join us on a little label tour, from first to latest: via Bombay, Supreme, and a light touch of make-believe.
Origin Stories
A short route through some etymological roots
We’ve been digging for root words – words that give origin to others. Root covers a lot of ground, offering meanings whose tendrils we’ve attempted to follow.
Assemblage
A short cut through some scenic roots
Different notes from different folks, tugged from the earth of the same theme, where we hope each sip has a certain body…