Drinking the Stars There is now an official ‘Day’ for just about anything conceivable. Champagne, the drink applied liberally to everything else worth celebrating, surely deserves a day of its own. Californian wine blogger Chris Oggenfuss...

Stranger, Here You Will Do Well to Tarry Oct 20, 2026 · Darren Gall The Swerve In September, OpenAI announced that some ten thousand of its AI agents, working for eighty-eight hours, had settled the Navier–Stokes...

Hippolyte’s Hectare -- Vieux Télégraphe Darren Gall · 19 October 2026 High Ground La Crau does not look like promising land. The plateau stands at about 130 metres on the south-eastern edge of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, where the communes...

  Domaine Robert Groffier Père & Fils Darren Gall · Vindochine There is a small Burgundian irony in Morey-Saint-Denis. The Groffier cellars sit in the middle of the village, next door to Clos de Tart, yet the...

The Code and the Côte How Napoleon’s Civil Code shaped Burgundy's vineyards, and how one family in Vosne-Romanée has lived with it for almost two centuries. Alphonse Gros was born in 1804 in Chaux, a...

Domaine Alvina Pernot The Pernot family have tended vines in Puligny for the best part of two centuries. Alvina Pernot was born and raised in Puligny-Montrachet, surrounded from childhood by some of Burgundy’s most celebrated...

Prologue On Inle Lake… The long boat was narrow, and it moved fast. There was a large single-cylinder diesel engine at the back, and a man I had not yet met was steering it. On a seat...

Part Two — Licklider’s Dream   Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network — J. C. R. Licklider, memorandum, 23 April 1963   Chapter Five: Rise of the Machines In a few years, men will be able to communicate...