Objectivity in wine tasting: an appeal to sculpture
Bernini’s sculpture Apollo and Daphne dates back to 1625, and is a striking work. Interestingly, Bernini intended it to be
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Wine Science
Regenerative viticulture: what is it, and why all the fuss now?
There are lots of different ways of farming vineyards. Conventional, sustainable, organic, biodynamic – and now we have the newcomer
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Visiting Champagne Mumm (2): new approaches to viticulture
Mumm is one of the two Champagne houses owned by Pernod Ricard, along with Perrier-Jouët. I visited them during harvest
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Champagne Veuve Cliquot reserve wine tasting: getting geeky about fizz
This was an interesting tasting of reserve wines from Veuve Clicquot. La Grand Dame Vintage 2012 label was designed by
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Wine in cans: technical issues
Canned wine is taking off, but it turns out not to be so simple from a technical perspective. Jamie Goode
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Don’t be made to feel guilty about drinking wine
The culture I am part of has weird feelings about wine consumption. You could argue that it has an uneasy
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My new book! The third edition of Wine Science, launched next week
Next week, the third edition of Wine Science is published by Mitchell Beazley. [In the USA, it’s exactly the same
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Frosts and freezing: a look at the science
Frost is an increasing problem in the wine world, with vineyards across many regions experiencing worse frosts as a result
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Ageing wines in space? Sending dormant vines into space? Is this at all scientifically interesting?
Ageing wine in space? It’s all over the news at the moment, courtesy a rather bizarre publicity stunt that’s looking
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Curettage: a ‘surgical’ treatment for trunk diseases that seems to work
Jamie Goode reports on a pair of scientific papers that validate the practice of curettage/curetage for treating grapevine trunk diseases.
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