Vol. II — 2026

Narratives
of Soil & Craft

Independent notes on low-intervention wines and on the people and ideas around them.

Selections

Wines we have spent time with, recorded with tasting notes and a five-part score.

Fresh and wild: rose, pomegranate and blood orange, carried by bright, tart acidity.

A bomb of minerality, with lemon and hay: precise, still very young, and with a long life ahead.

Visits and conversations with people in wine.

Keti Berishvili, winemakerKakheti · Georgia

The gate opened onto green. What stayed with us longest was the smell of wet earth, leaves after rain.

Gia Togonidze, winemaker and painterKakheti · Georgia

Eka sent us a few kilometres down the road for a tasting at the end of the afternoon. We left Gia Togonidze’s house hours after dark.

Longer writing about wine.

Current essay

Barthes called wine a totem-drink: national, transformative and, at its best, the prolongation of a pleasure.

Wineries, wine shops, bars and restaurants we would return to.

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