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Travelogues, essays and longer-form narratives on or related to wine, dining and travel. Work appearing in print publications and on other web sites will be included here when possible; I reserve the right to re-edit certain works for clarity and modernity, though I will provide links to the originals when they exist in electronic form. Statements on my practices and the ethics of wine writing are found in the faq.

Grapes – a biweekly column published in stuff@night

Perrin/Beaucastel wine dinner (2/08)

Louis/Dressner Italian portfolio (1/08)

Tablas Creek wine dinner (1/08)

Dollars and fungus – a 2007 Italian travelogue (in progress)

Chapters – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7...and more to come

Murcia tasting (10/07)

Washington Wine Commission tasting (9/07)

Wyndham Estate tasting (9/07)

The Minnesota wines of Alexis Bailly (8/07)

i Clivi tasting (7/07)

Easton/Domaine de la Terre Rouge tasting (5/07)

Rombauer tasting (5/07)

Selaks tasting (5/07)

A hint of corruption – Danny Schuster brings the Waipara to Vermont (2/07)

A Ridge too far – Paul Draper and a Geyserville mini-vertical (2/07)

Jamon, jamon – a 2006 Cataluρa/Pyrenιes/Roussillon travelogue (in progress)

Chapters – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11...and more to come

Too much wine – a 2006 Lorraine/Alsace/Paris travelogue (in progress)

Chapters – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13...and more to come

Mushroom, mushroom – a 2006 Portland/Willamette Valley travelogue

Chapters – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

The Bay, the Captain and the Veil – a 2006 San Francisco/Yosemite travelogue

Chapters – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

The rediscovered country – a 2005 New Zealand travelogue (in progress)

Chapters – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51...and more to come.

A noteless idyll – OK, maybe not that noteless... (5/06)

Christening the duck – The breaking-in of King Fung Garden II (4/06)

Days and nights in the valley – a 2005 Silicon Valley travelogue

Chapters – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Down with big pinots! – Join my crusade, won't you? (1/06)

The young and the fruitless – Yetis, porn stars and mail-order pork. Is this any way to host a wine dinner? (12/05)

Hot times by the Bay – a 2005 San Francisco travelogue

Chapters – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Sex and the single oyster – a 2004 Sonoma/San Francisco travelogue

Chapters – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13