My Irish-American roots can’t resist St Patrick’s Day and the greening of the world. In my wilder youth I had green beer (not good). Less wild, better taste: I went for Guinness. Yet more taste: I went for good Guinness, in pubs in County Clare or Galway. I can’t do that today, but my heart […]
David Kind
Pure Chasselas, pure pleasure
Trying to explain Chasselas to people who dismiss it as uninteresting because it is low in acidity is a nearly hopeless exercise, although wine writers in Switzerland who love this wine – and there are many of us! – keep trying. How many average drinkers consider the acidity in their wine? The other day I […]