Purple Mouthed began as a desire to pair wine with real life.
Behold its culmination: a weekly bottling of 15 years coming to my senses.
It’s official: I’ve joined the Substack train to gain the last of us internet readers.
Welcome to my new weekly column, Coming to Your Senses, a type of “tech sheet” featuring the terroir of my brain.
Objectively, taste is subjective, but I do indeed make a living from it, so I hope you’ll keep following along to learn about wine with a fresh, real-life context.
The first issue is out now!
In this week’s harvest:
- Smell: wet leaves, and why the best Pinot Noir smells like a fall walk
- Hear: Philip Glass + Champagne
- Taste: an upstate Ambrosia apple, and the Pinot Meunier it brought to mind
- See: the scaries, and why points and medals shouldn’t choose your wine
- Touch: black velvet, from Pomerol to the world’s oldest vine in Slovenia
And a sixth sense to close, which you’ll have to read to discover.
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