The Case of the Missing Cask: A Spirits Geek Mystery
Where has my barrel pick gone? Also: A new German wine law and a sense place. And: Is cabernet franc the new signature grape of the Finger Lakes?
“Taste has no system and no proofs,” cultural critic Susan Sontag once remarked. In his 19th century gourmand treatise, Physiology of Taste, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin writes, “the space between something called good and something reputed to be excellent is not very great.” Old Nietzsche famously declar…