For a moment, think of the wine inside a bottle as a story. As you drink it, it has a progression:...
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Kevin Day is a Denver-based wine writer and photographer with a special focus on Italian and French wines. He is an Italian and French Wine Scholar™ with Highest Honors, a shortlisted nominee for the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers’ Awards (Emerging Wine Writer 2019), and a member of the Circle of Wine Writers. He is the founder and main writer behind the popular wine website Opening a Bottle, which is supported by subscribers. He lives in Colorado.
They did it again, those winemaking monks of Abbazia di Novacella. After tasting their Schiava, Lagrein and Pinot Grigio (the latter...
These Wines from Hacienda Araucano
Old World and New World. In other words, Europe and Everybody Else: they’re essentially the two kingdoms of wine taste and everybody...
As much as we talk about terroir, it is hard to find. Not here.
This past winter, I rediscovered Syrah via the red wines of the Northern Rhône River, most notably the barely-in-my-price-range wines...
Here’s a ridiculously complicated, nuanced topic I could never cover in a single blog post: Pinot Noir from Burgundy vs....
Back in April, I wrote about the Zenato family of Veneto’s Valpolicella region, and how their “baby Amarone” (my words,...
A conversation with Luca Currado on Piedmont's "White Nebbiolo"
Ahh, the 100-point system for scoring wine. Is there a taller lightning rod in wine circles than its ubiquity and...
The Dark Beast of Italian Wine
A few weeks ago, I had lunch with a former colleague and friend, and the subject of traveling around France...