The magic of a great meal often lives in the match — the way the right wine makes the food sing, and vice versa. These ten books teach you how to make that happen at your own table. KWWritten & edited by Ken Wytsma, Wine History ToursWillamette Valley wine-tour hosts Wine and food are made
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Wine and war have always been entangled — but nowhere more hauntingly than in Champagne, where an entire community once lived underground among the bottles while the Western Front raged overhead. KWReviewed & edited by Ken Wytsma · Fact-checked June 2026Researched and fact-checked against independent sources, with AI assistance.✓ Verified Vineyards are rooted, immovable, and
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Pinot Noir is the most perfumed, delicate of the great reds — and the glass you pour it into matters more than for almost any other wine. Here’s how to choose one, at any budget. KWWritten & edited by Ken Wytsma, Wine History ToursPinot Noir tour hosts, Oregon If you love the Pinot Noir of
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Wine is not just made — it is inherited. The world has said so officially: from a buried Georgian jar to the hand-drawn plots of Burgundy, wine now sits on UNESCO’s lists of the heritage of humanity. KWReviewed & edited by Ken Wytsma · Fact-checked June 2026Researched and fact-checked against independent sources, with AI assistance.✓
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In the 1970s a handful of Tuscan aristocrats decided to break their own country’s wine laws — and made wines so good that Italy eventually rewrote the rules around them. KWReviewed & edited by Ken Wytsma · Fact-checked June 2026Researched and fact-checked against independent sources, with AI assistance.✓ Verified There is a version of the
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Forget the big Grenache blends of the south. The Northern Rhône is a narrow ribbon of steep granite where a single grape — Syrah — makes some of France’s most profound reds. KWWritten & edited by Ken Wytsma, Wine History ToursWillamette Valley wine-tour hosts The Northern Rhône, in southeastern France, is a small but legendary
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A celebrated California winemaker came north chasing the one wine Napa could not give him — great Pinot Noir — and built one of the Willamette Valley’s most admired biodynamic estates. KWReviewed & edited by Ken Wytsma · Fact-checked June 2026Researched and fact-checked against independent sources, with AI assistance.✓ Verified Some of the Willamette Valley’s
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America’s great cool-climate Riesling comes from an unlikely place: a set of deep glacial lakes in upstate New York, whose stored warmth makes the whole region possible. KWWritten & edited by Ken Wytsma, Wine History ToursCool-climate wine-tour hosts, Oregon The Finger Lakes, in upstate New York, are one of North America’s finest cool-climate wine regions
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A poet crowned it the king of all wines, and popes drank it by name. But its true story begins with a confusion that still trips up drinkers three centuries later. KWReviewed & edited by Ken Wytsma · Fact-checked June 2026Researched and fact-checked against independent sources, with AI assistance.✓ Verified In the hills of southeastern
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A pope was born in a humble village, and when he rose to the throne of St. Peter he did something no one had done before: he tore the village down and built, in its place, the first “ideal city” of the Renaissance. KWReviewed & edited by Ken Wytsma · Fact-checked June 2026Researched and fact-checked