WINE
May 2012
A master of drinking scenes, Shakespeare brilliantly articulates the ambivalence of wine — Cassio's devil and Iago's instrument — throughout Othello
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April 2012
John Adams's taste for dry — not sweet — champagne exemplified the changing palettes of the English upper classes
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March 2012
The terminology of modern wine-tasting is fussily analytical. Maybe it's worth heeding our sensory impressions, a la Sancho Panza
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January/February 2012
For Jonathan Swift, a medicinal hogshead was the perfect measure of wine
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