All right, I need a break from writing about beer… so I’ll move over to something I honestly enjoy – wine. Muller-Thurgau is a lovely German white flavored with elderflowers. Tempranillo is Spain’s ‘noble grape’. Both turn out to have fairly old, interesting histories, going back further in time than you [...]
Quite by accident, I stumbled on a list of my great-grandfather’s published works. Some are still in print! This is the man who founded Peabody College, a teachers’ college in the South, now the Education School of Vanderbilt University. I am struck by the gentle teaching and learning focus in [...]
DNA studies by Ferdinand Regner indicates that one parent of the modern Riesling vine is Gouais Blanc, known in Germany as Weißer Heunisch , brought to Burgundy from Croatia by the Romans[1]. This was widely grown by French and German peasantry in the Middle Ages. The other parent is a [...]