By Ryan Johnson Consumers don’t have access to much information about how businesses operate, but they can ask questions and focus on one tangible item, the bottle. The exquisite vulnerability of grapes to nuances of weather makes wine both particularly susceptible to climate change and a harbinger of what’s to come for many other agricultural products. […]

With the holidays around the corner health-conscious people around the world pick their poison for the night ahead—or vow to just pop open a bottle of kombucha come midnight—thoughts of “What alcohols are gluten-free?” and “How can I drink to prevent a hangover?” fill the air. Well, we’ve got answers to those questions, but we […]

When I took on a brief to cover Madeira and its wine festival, I wasn’t expecting to be standing up in the back of an open-top jeep plucking passionfruit flowers off their stalks to drink the nectar inside. Nor was I expecting to still be standing in the back of said jeep while we weaved […]