Field Notes

  • Where will wine take you?

    Where will wine take you?

    I grew up between cultures. Two countries, two languages, two ways of sitting at a table and making a meal feel like something worth remembering. Wine came later for me. But when it did,…

  • Your Wine Called. It Wants a Better Playlist.

    Your Wine Called. It Wants a Better Playlist.

    This is going to sound like something you read in a wellness magazine, but stay with me. There is actual science behind the idea that music changes how wine tastes. A researcher named Charles…

  • The wine region nobody saw coming

    The wine region nobody saw coming

    There is a valley in Baja California, about an hour south of the US border, where the road narrows and the landscape opens up. The Pacific is close enough to cool the nights. The…