Our perceptions and preferences guide critical tasting to answer such questions but plays havoc with traditional pairing..

We seek to satisfy our passions and our social, economic. and coping needs.

Government interference leads to unintended consequences

Winemaking can be too minimalist because decay can be too rapid.

Evidence that you once knew something about it

Berry and wine color are not black and white (or red, pink, orange, and white).

Trésors de Champagne (Champagne Treasures), known as Special Club, has a wonderful tasting room in Reims, near the Halles Boulingrin market.

"Honest opinions, though, can easily congeal into personal dogma." - Andrew Jefford May2012 lectures to the Wine Communicators of Austraiia

Useful concepts but neither are deserving unchallenged veneration

Fine wine, like fine food, is about fellowship.

My wine journey