Wine plates
Wine plates
Short, sourced answers to the questions people ask about wine. Each plate states a claim, gives the evidence and lists its sources. New plates are added three times a week.
The plates are published as reference material. They do not sell anything.
Series
- Myths, corrected: things everyone knows about wine that turn out to be wrong.
- Curiosities: measurements, records and oddities.
- Curious laws: the rules of appellations and labels.
- Perception: what tasting experiments show about the brain and the glass.
- Chemistry: what is in the bottle and why.
- Chronicle: history, scandal and trade.
- Fromage: cheese, and what to drink with it.
- Specimens: grape varieties, their names and their DNA.