The Journal

  • 2026: A Year of Weather Trials for Bourgogne Wineries

    Living in Beaune, means I spend a great deal of my life watching the weather the way other people watch the news, with dread and a slightly obsessive attention to detail. This year the weather has been the news. If you have followed my Instagram feed through the spring and summer of 2026, you already…

  • The Hidden Hierarchy in Wine Culture

    Let me start with the thing nobody in this industry likes said out loud, don’t cancel me please. The rituals we treat as timeless markers of refinement, the swirl, the sniff, the knowing pause, the correct vocabulary deployed at the correct moment, did not descend from heaven fully formed. They were built by specific people,…

  • Breaking Barriers: Hip-Hop’s Place in Wine Culture

    I must have been in third standard, maybe fourth, when I found the channel that quietly rewired the rest of my life. We had cable television back then, and somewhere between the Hindi film countdown shows and the cricket highlights sat a channel called VH1. For a child growing up in India in the early…