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  • Sport as a cultural phenomenon

    From Budweiser to Prosecco: How the American Hockey Fan Changed Over 46 Years The 25th Winter Olympic Games are about to open in Milan, Italy. Any Olympic Games — including the Winter Games — represent a rare moment when sports are watched not only by dedicated fans, but by society at large. Hockey, meanwhile, remains… →

  • Alphabet of Alcohol

    Letter “C” Crayères The Underground History of Champagne: From Stone to Wine In Champagne, almost everything that truly matters happens underground.Not in cellars as such, but in spaces far older than Champagne itself — in chalk cuttings, caves, and galleries that extend beneath the cities and vineyards of the Champagne region. Today, these spaces are… →

  • “Milestones on the Road of Champagne”

    What If Dom Pérignon Had Been Italian? The previous article in this series can be read here… At first glance, the question “What if Dom Pérignon had been Italian?” may sound like pure fantasy or an intellectual game. In reality, however, it serves as a convenient tool for understanding something far more serious. The history… →

  • Wine Trends of the Last 25 Years

    Prologue Over the past quarter century, the world of wine has changed more profoundly than in many decades before it. It has become broader, louder, and more diverse. New countries, new styles, and new protagonists have emerged. Old boundaries have disappeared — and with them, the sense of simplicity. These texts do not aim to… →

  • Burgundy Estate Chronicles

    Chronicle No. 5 The previous “Chronicle No. 4” can be viewed here… Americans and Europe — like two worlds looking at each other across the ocean and asking, every single time: “How do you even live like that?” America is loud, fast, efficient, straightforward.Europe is quiet, slow, and backed by a thousand years of experience… →

  • Burgundy Estate Chronicles

    Chronicle No. 4 The previous “Chronicle No. 3” can be viewed here… Chapter 16. Getting to Know the Village and Its People On the following Monday morning, when the mist had not yet fully lifted from the vineyards, the new owners set out “into society” for the first time, intending to visit the town hall.… →

  • Chronicles of the Burgundy Estate

    Chronicles of the Burgundy Estate Chronicle No. 3 The previous “Chronicle No. 2” can be viewed here… 🌙 Chapter 11. The First Night Night does not fall immediately in an old house.First, the lights go out in the neighboring homes — one by one, like candles fading in a church.Then the last voices on the… →

  • Sale of an Estate in Burgundy

    Chronicle No. 2 Chronicle No. 1 can be read here… “When the World Shifts by the Length of a Signature” The sale of the estate was finalized, the seal pressed onto the paper, and the transaction officially completed — yet for Burgundy, that meant only half the journey. Laws, documents, signatures — all of that… →

  • Sale of an Estate in Burgundy

    Chronicle No. 1   “Time in Burgundy flows slowly, but you can’t hold on to it” “Le temps en Bourgogne coule lentement,mais on ne peut pas le retenir” 🏡 Part 1. When a House Chooses Its New Owners “The past never leaves. It simply changes hands” Burgundy loves silence. Here, silence is never empty —… →

  • Alcohol Alphabet

    Part 3. Letter “C”. Clos (the Art of Boundaries) Part 1 of the article “Clos” can be read here… “A wine born behind a wall speaks louder than the wall itself”                                                                  — Burgundian saying Part II. Great Wines and the Modern Meaning of the Clos In the first part, we traced how the word Clos… →

  • Alcohol Alphabet

    Part 3. Letter “C”. Clos (the Art of Boundaries) Part 2 of the “Alcohol ABCs” Château can be found here… “To let a flavour ripen, you must surround it with silence.”                                     — from Cistercian monastic notes, 13th century Part I. Stone, Monks, and the Birth of the Clos Introduction The word clos is one of… →

  • The ABC of Alcohol

    Part 2. The Letter “C” — Château Chapter Two The first chapter of the material “Chateau” can be viewed here… 🏰 X. The Emigration of a Word: The Global Tour of “Château” French words rarely stay home. They love to travel — melodic, elegant, easily adopted by the world. So it was with château: a… →

  • The ABC of Alcohol

    Part 2. The Letter “C” — Château Part 1, “Punt,” can be viewed here… Chapter One 🏛️ Châteaux: Bordeaux Castles and the Architecture of a Brand Wine is not a building — but sometimes a castle helps it speak with greater authority 🏰 I. What Is a Château In the language of French wine, château… →

  • Wine Paradoxes

    No. 9: Beer Bottles The previous part of “Wine Paradoxes” No. 8 can be found here… 🍺 Prologue – The Other Side of Glass Wine breathes when it’s poured.Beer lives only while it’s sealed. Between them lies glass — but not the same kind:for wine — thin, elegant, contemplative;for beer — utilitarian, soldier-like. Where the… →

  • Wine Paradoxes

    Part 7 can be viewed here… № 8 — Three Glasses of Philosophy: One Measure of Civilization (Why Is a Wine Bottle 750 ml?) I. A Question That Wouldn’t Let Go Among all wine paradoxes, this one refuses to fade.Why is the standard wine bottle exactly 750 ml — not a full liter, not a… →