Roger Coryell

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Wine Country Gazette

Word Junkie: The spring edition

Spring is the season everyone loves and no one can describe without sounding like a greeting card. “Renewal.” “Awakening.” “Rebirth.” Sure. Also: mud, allergies, and the unsettling realization that you have not, in fact, gone to the gym since November. But the words we use for all of it — those a...

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Wine Country Gazette

Word Junkie: A flight of obscure wine words

The bâtonnage is done, the foudre is breathing, and the cellar smells like rancio, brett, and Tuesday. The pourriture noble has set in on the late-pick Sémillon, gloriously and on purpose, and somewhere in the back a saignée tank bleeds off rosé like a politely punctured artery. (Roger Coryell / ...

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