There aren’t many gastronomic experiences that require muscle power, but as I pound some brown mustard seeds with a mortar and pestle, I conclude that making my own ...

Besides Champagne, perhaps the two most prominent wine regions in the world are the French areas of Bordeaux and Burgundy, and they are polar opposites in almost every way. If Bordeaux is the most ...

Today, though, it’s all about Burgundy: so much so, it’s hard to get an allocation of new vintage top wines from the region, whoever you are. It’s always the same message whether you speak to the ...

I wrote in a recent column on affordable Bordeaux, "(A)s these wines (the top Bordeaux) have reached icon status, their prices have followed into the hundreds and even thousands of dollars - per ...

Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer; event host and speaker; and drinks educator. He regularly contributes to Food & Wine, and his first book, Crushed: How A Changing Climate Is ...

With Burgundy, it is a much harder question to answer. Firstly, vignerons come and go: death, divorce, retirement, family generation succession, family disputes and, in some instances, the outright ...