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Travelogues, essays and other narratives on or related to wine, travel, and dining, grouped by type and arranged by descending date. 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, modernity, and to repair errors, though I will provide links to the originals when they exist in electronic form. Statements on my practices, the ethics of wine writing, and so forth are found in the faq.

travelogues

Unreserved – a 2011 (and 2009) Paris travelogue

Chapters – 1, 2...and more to come

The meat labyrinth – a 2011 London travelogue

Chapters – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Say goodbye to Hollywood – a 2010 Los Angeles travelogue

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

Fire in the belly – a 2009 Basque travelogue (in progress)

Chapters – 1...and more to come

Jacaranda shadow – a 2008 South African travelogue (in progress)

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

Herring impaired – a 2008 Norway/Cophenhagen travelogue (in progress)

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

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

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

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

Chapters – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17...and more to come

Too much wine – a 2006 Lorraine/Alsace/Paris travelogue

Chapters – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

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, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58...and more to come.

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

Chapters – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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

 

print articles

Grapes – a biweekly column published in stuff@night

 

tastings

New Zealand tasting (3/09)

Terry Theise sparkling wine tasting (12/08)

Storrs tasting (9/08)

Bonny Doon tasting (9/08)

Varner/Neely/Foxglove tasting (9/08)

Edmunds St. John (informal) tasting (5/08)

Tariquet tasting (3/08)

Le Piane tasting (3/08)

Gordon & MacPhail Scotch tasting (2/08)

Grόner veltliner/Terry Theise tasting (2/08)

Rodney Strong tasting (2/08)

Perrin/Beaucastel wine dinner (2/08)

Louis/Dressner Italian portfolio tasting (1/08)

Tablas Creek wine dinner (1/08)

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)

 

other essays

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

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

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)

   

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