The Wine Behind the Machines (The New York Sun) In

The Wine Behind the Machines (The New York Sun)
In his tough-guy fashion, Raymond Chandler or his alter ego, private detective Philip Marlowe would have made a terrific wine critic, especially these days. Today’s calculated wine commercialism employs practices designed to make wines seem better than they really are. For example, in California it’s now common practice to allow grapes to become overripe, the better to create outsize flavors …