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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 7d

New on Notable — Wines for sweater weather www.makerstable.com/p/notable-la...

Notable: Late September 2025

Notes on a medley of memorable wines—white, pink, and red—for early fall

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marsroving.bsky.social @marsroving.bsky.social · 9d

G.D. Vajra wines from Italy are fantastic. @megmaker.com what a great interview! If you are familiar with Vajra this is an interesting and educating read. If you aren't familiar you should be and this may help you get started.

Meg Maker @megmaker.com · Jun 9

“Here at Vajra, we work with science and consciousness. In Italian: scienza e coscienza. The root is about knowledge itself. You know the science—the scienza, technical things—and coscienza says you judge with your heart.”

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#wine #barolo #italianwine

An Afternoon with Francesca Vaira of G.D. Vajra

Francesca poured her family’s wines and shared the vision and philosophy that animate the work

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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 9d

Judy O’Kane masterfully summarizes the inaugural Pinot Noir & Identity Symposium, including keynotes and paper sessions. She deftly encapsulates my own talk on the lexicons and motifs of wine writing about Pinot Noir. (My full paper is forthcoming in WFW 91.)

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On location: Burgundy and beyond

Judy O’Kane reports from the profoundly thought-provoking Pinot Noir & Identity Symposium, held at St Cross College, University of Oxford.

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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 12d

“Find a trusted person, someone who won’t break your heart, and ask them to read it. Don’t offer a preamble or back story. Don’t explain it. Just let them read it. Once they’ve finished, ask them to answer three questions:”
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Ask Three Questions

A technique to improve any piece of writing, at any stage of the effort

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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 12d

First sentence: "to give medical advice"; it's used correctly in the third sentence.

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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 19d

If you are contemplating a tour of New England to gape at fall foliage, get here soon. Peak will happen in the next two weeks, if not sooner. We are in severe drought and the trees are just so over it.

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Eric Asimov @ericasimov.bsky.social · 19d

Around the winemaking world, there's a growing interest in the potential of hybrid grapes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/d...

Can Hybrid Grapes Solve the Climate Change Dilemma for Wine Makers?

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 20d

What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.

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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 28d

Notes on wines from Vinho Verde, Barolo, Veneto, and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
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Notable: Early September, 2025

Welcome to Notable, a round-up of select wines from recent tasting

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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · Sep 7

Bah, so frustrating! OTOH, if you keep feeding her she'll get heavy enough eventually... 😸

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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · Sep 7

Trap failed to spring? Or are you getting Kitteh acclimated to it by keeping it open?

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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · Sep 3

“Formal wine training wasn’t seen as an urgent requirement for writers back then. That’s partly because it was almost entirely unavailable.”
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Wine Credentials Optional

Taking inspiration from an earlier generation of wine writers

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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · Sep 1

She is starving. Thank you for this compassion.

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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · Aug 27

I didn’t meet Anthony Bourdain once. We didn’t meet in Paris, in the Charles de Gaulle Airport. I was flying to Bordeaux and so was he.

My latest: www.makerstable.com/p/just-sit-a...

Just Sit and Watch

A lesson in observation from a not-so-stranger.

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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · Aug 15

"Dad, he looked at me!"
"Make him stop! Make him stop!"

Meg Maker @megmaker.com · Aug 13

“The main thing is to get going, because the ideas come when the pen starts moving. It’s a practical matter: The hand needs to write words, so the brain comes up with something for it to say.”

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Get it in Writing

Longhand writing can fluidly generate your story’s first draft

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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · Aug 8

I always buy Large in yoga tights. And I am not so large.

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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · Aug 6

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Pinot Noir’s Linguistic Tropes

The lexicon of Pinot noir is a case study in cliché

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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · Aug 2

Font matters.

Graphic sign with "CLOSING SALE" crossed through with a banner that says "NEW MARKDOWNS TAKEN." The cross-out obscures part of the word "closing," making it look like "CLOSTNO." A different font in this instance might have helped.

Meg Maker @megmaker.com · Jul 30

march, stalk, pace, tread, step, walk

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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · Jul 30

Hundred Hills Winery is a young project in the rolling landscape southeast of Oxford. I visited on a sultry day in early July, striding the chalky rows before tasting wines in the cellar. My report: www.makerstable.com/p/sparkling-...