Vineyard: Wine from the Levant
French Élan Story and photo by Alistair Highet/Life@Home My story begins, naturally, during the Crimean War. Most of us know little about this conflict between Russia and the allies of France, England...
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Bolgheri By Alistair Highet/Life@Home You can be forgiven for not having heard of the Bolgheri DOC, if for no other reason than it is only 8 years old. But if you are a wine experimenter, you will...
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Spanish Wonders By Alistair Highet/Life@Home We have a tendency to think of countries like Spain and imagine them to be monocultural, but in fact they are in many respects far more complex cultural...
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Hurray, Rosé! Photo and Story by Alistair Highet/Life@Home Some people look forward to opening day of the baseball season. It means, for them, that summer has really started, and is associated with...
View ArticleThe Vineyard: Refreshed by the rocky soil of Bordeaux
Thanks for the Gravel Photo and story by Alistair Highet/Life@Home Very uncharacteristically, I found myself being a bit turned off of wine for a while. It didn’t seem to matter what I tasted; it all...
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Picpoul Photo and story by Alistair Highet/Life@Home It’s not every day that you stumble upon a grape you’ve never heard of, particularly in France, and so when I first saw the word Picpoul on a label,...
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Torrentes By Alistair Highet/Life@Home Wine moments. There are an infinite number of wines, grapes, regions, and styles out there and one’s exploration of the world of wine is a lifetime pursuit. Fine....
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Mendoza Cabernet Story and photo by Alistair Highet In many respects, the history of wine is the history of war. The roads that the Romans cut through Gaul into the dark forests of Germany were quickly...
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Port: Rich in History Story by Alistair Highet/Life@Home I went on a long road journey recently, and took along my companion Richard Sharpe — the most remarkable man to have fought with the Duke of...
View ArticleThe Vineyard: Hello Cleveland! Here come the wines that rock!
We Are Not Worthy Story and Photo By Alistair Highet/Life@Home Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd and sync it up with The Wizard of Oz movie and lie on your back in a dark room, that the music is...
View ArticleVineyard: Alchemy in Valpolicella
By Alistair Highet/Life@Home You can be excused for ducking Valpolicella when you see bottles of it on the shelves. Bulk wines from this region near Verona, east of Lake Garda in the north of Italy,...
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The Only White Wine that Happens to be Red By Alistair Highet/Life@Home The “nouveau Beaujolais” craze was already passing out of fashion when my friend Tim and I drove across the English Channel in a...
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Pomerol Story and photo by Alistair Highet/Life@Home Those of you who have followed this column will remember that last year I was flying from Glasgow to Madrid. I looked out the window of the plane,...
View ArticleThe Vineyard: Globalization is a wine phenomenon, too
Road Trip Story and photo by Alistair Highet When I’m not obsessing about wine, I’m obsessing about soccer (please allow me to call it football). What has been amazing over the last 20 years is how,...
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Cheap & Cheerful Story and photo by Alistar Highet/Life@Home So much is written about French wine that it is almost a relief to come across wines that appear beneath the contempt of wine writers,...
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Casanova’s Wine Story and photo by Alistair Highet/Life@Home Up in the northeast corner of Italy, near the border with Slovenia and in the region called Friuli, is a magnificent resort called Castello...
View ArticleThe Vineyard: Rethinking California Sauvignon Blanc
A Change of Taste Story and photo by Alistair Highet/Life@Home No grape varietal has such a broad, eclectic range of expressions — the talent of a truly great actor in a way — than Sauvignon Blanc. The...
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Drinking in Cadiz Story and photo by Alistair Highet/Life@Home At the bottom of Spain, in Andalusia, and jutting into the Atlantic on a long spit of sand, is the ancient and enchanting city of Cadiz....
View ArticleThe Vineyard: More adventures on the rosé roundabout
The Eye of the Partridge Story and photo by Alistair Highet/Life@Home September is the best month of the summer — at least it always has been for me. June is abrupt, and damp, and I can’t decide what...
View ArticleThe Vineyard: Recalibrating the taste buds with affordable Italian classics
Coming Home Story and photo by Alistair Highet/Life@Home Probably we all have a “safe” place in our private wine world — a sanctuary where we know we will always be received with warmth, and the only...
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