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Odessa Courtyard
An Album of Memories A Few Words Before You Enter the Courtyard What lay behind the arches of old Odessa houses? Discover a courtyard where neighbors knew one another by name, Lydia grapevines climbed the walls, and every last name on a mailbox told its own story. An Odessa courtyard was far more than a… →
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Wine and Its Perception
Part 2 Who Is Allowed to Drink What? The Myth of “Men’s” and “Women’s” Drinks You can read Chapters 7 and 8 here… The dinner is over, but the story of “men’s” and “women’s” drinks continues. What happens when stereotypes give way to genuine human connection—and, in the future, artificial intelligence begins helping people choose… →
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Wine and Its Perception
Part 2 Who Gets to Drink What? The Myth of “Men’s” and “Women’s” Drinks You can read Chapters 4,5 and 6 here… Chapter 7 The Conversation That Turned Out to Matter More Than the Drinks They had made their choices. And those choices mattered only to the two of them. The waiter took their order… →
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Wine and Its Perception
Part 2 Who Gets to Drink What? The Myth of “Men’s” and “Women’s” Drinks You can read Chapters 2 and 3 here… Chapter 4 The Day They Met She The day itself unfolded much as any other. Work calls. Emails. Coffee between meetings. A quick exchange of news. Short conversations with colleagues. Yet beneath the… →
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Wine and Its Perception
Part 2 Who Gets to Drink What? The Myth of “Men’s” and “Women’s” Drinks You can read Chapter 1 here… Chapter 2 Why Do We Keep Thinking About Someone We Barely Know? The Phone Call They Were Both Waiting For. Waiting She She didn’t get home quickly. She stepped inside, slipped off her coat, kicked… →
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Wine and Its Perception
Part 2 You can watch Part 1 here… Who Gets to Drink What? The Myth of “Men’s” and “Women’s” Drinks Chapter 1 Can You Understand a Person by the Drink They Choose? The Story of a Chance Encounter in Denver Prologue On a warm summer evening in Denver, Colorado, a group of friends gathered for… →
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Pages of History
Homemade Wine as a Way of Life in Europe From Ancient Vineyards to Family Cellars You can read Part Two here… Part 3 Homemade wine survived the Migration Period, the Industrial Revolution, and the great movement of people from the countryside into the cities. It seemed that it would finally give way to bottles from… →
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Pages of History
Homemade Wine as a Way of Life in Europe From Ancient Vineyards to Family Cellars You can read Part One here… Part 2 🍷 The Wine of the Poor and the Wine of the Wealthy How a Shared Wine Culture Gradually Divided into Home Production and a Market for Fine Wine In the Middle Ages,… →
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Pages of History
Homemade Wine as a Way of Life in Europe From Ancient Vineyards to Family Cellars Part 1 “Wine was not always reserved for celebrations. For a long time, it was simply part of life” 🔎 What Do We Mean by “Homemade Wine”? Today, when we hear the phrase homemade wine, we usually imagine a small… →
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Wine Paradoxes
The Empty Seat Across the Table You can read Chapter 1 here… Chapter 2 The Vologda village of 1928 was now behind us. But the argument about why a person drinks—and what changes when fewer and fewer people remain at the table—was only beginning. The next stop was Leningrad in the late 1950s: the Baltic… →
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Wine Paradoxes
The Empty Seat Across the Table Why People Begin Drinking Alone: The Story of One Family Across a Hundred Years The heaviest loneliness is not the absence of people around you. It is the absence of a person sitting across from you. Chapter 1 For a hundred years, everyone in this family drank. The great-grandfathers… →
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Life of Wine Regions
Part 1. Bordeaux Chapter 4 The Story of Château Haut-Brion (From the Gravel Hills of Graves to Bordeaux’s First Great Wine) Chapter 3 can be found here… Château Haut-Brion is located just a few kilometres southwest of the city of Bordeaux, on the gravelly rises of the historic Graves region. Today the estate lies almost… →
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Life of Wine Regions
Part 1. Bordeaux You can read Chapter 1 here… Chapter 3 The Seventeenth Century—Bordeaux Reaches England Introduction “…a very good and most particular taste that I never met with”— Samuel Pepys, 1663 The elderly Lord B—t was taking a leisurely walk through the carefully maintained park surrounding his estate, Blackwood Hall, in southern England. A… →
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Wine Paradoxes
When France Started Cheering for Beer Continued. The previous part can be read here… Generation Z has declined to renew its contract with the daily glass of wine. But is it ready to sign a new agreement with beer? In the concluding part of our unusual football match, we will try to understand what is… →
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Wine Paradoxes
When France Started Cheering for Beer Continued. The previous part can be read here… Chapter 3 Why have the French started drinking more beer than wine? In the second part of our virtual football match between the “brewers” and the “winemakers” at the Stade de France, the satirical game increasingly turns into a conversation about… →