• June 12, 2026 Dorothy J. Gaiter & John Brecher

    Sigrid’s Vintage: We Reunited a Napa Winemaker With a Cherished Bottle 

    We all need some good news these days and here it is, though it is also bittersweet. We have been working for more than two years to find the ending to this story. In 1976, a former professor of European history named Jerry Seps and his wife, Sigrid, visited Napa Valley and fell in love with a spot north of Calistoga, on a stunning high-elevation eastern slope of the Mayacamas Mountain Range. They established a winery they called Storybook Mountain…

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  • May 29, 2026 Dorothy J. Gaiter & John Brecher
    Every year about this time we feel super nostalgic. We met 53 years ago on June 4 in the newsroom of The Miami Herald, which overlooked Biscayne Bay. Since moving to New York City in 1990, we have returned to the Miami area often. On our visits, we’re amazed at how the skyline and neighborhoods have changed. Where’s Melreese Golf…
  • May 28, 2026 Lisa Denning
    The hills of Alta Langa
  • May 28, 2026 Christopher Barnes
    Say "Mendoza" and wine and the first word that comes to mind is Malbec. The region built its modern reputation on that grape, after all Argentina produces roughly 75% of all Malbec in the world. Pinot Noir, if it enters the Argentine conversation at all, sends most people's minds south, far south to Patagonia. Patagonia's Pinot Noir credentials are genuine…
  • May 23, 2026 Christopher Barnes
    There is a stretch of coastal Croatia an hours drive north of the city of Split where the earth looks less like soil than the aftermath of a geological argument. In the UNESCO-protected area surrounding Primošten, limestone pushed skyward by colliding tectonic plates sits beneath a thin veneer of red clay the iron-rich crvenica, known elsewhere as terra rosa almost…

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