Collin Flatt takes on the POPE and gets touched in a bad place.

Eric Arnold is in love.  Not simply with wine, or New Zealand wines, or the people who grow and create those wines.  No, Eric is in love with the whole damn mess of it all.  First Big Crush is a book about a man with a lot of passion, not necessarily a lot of sense, and a whole year to...

“Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.”   – Jack Dempsey’s response after a drunk challenged him to a fight.  Things are heating up around the Wine School, folks.  Seems there is a good old-fashioned sparring match coming up as sources have...

(sung to the tune of White Christmas) I’m dreaming of a blanc (de blancs) Christmas All chardonnay, no pinot noir The Salon is chilling And artists swilling, In a 1930s Paris bar I’m dreaming of a blanc (de blancs) Christmas Josephine staggers, then a-rights May my day turn easily to...

Fall is finally here – that time of year to get cozy on the sofa under a nice burning lamp, a lovely bottle of wine, and a terrific read. For those of you following Frank Cipparone’s Italian Picks, a great novel to dive into while drinking the Ornello Molon Raboso 2003; the Cristina...

Alchemists were the original apothecary. And what wonders they concocted. Dame Edith Sitwell’s English Eccentrics cites a long list of restoratives that were doled out in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries to invalids suffering an array of ills. Along with sundry plants and herbs,...

The World Beer Cup is no joke. We lay laurels on the heads of the domestic champions at The Great American Beer Festival in Colorado every year, but the WBC opens the field to every last brewer on Earth. That’s why when local brewery Yards came home with a surprise bronze in the...

Collin Flatt hates Mexicans... those lime-loving beers, we mean. And then he eats some crow.