Stories · the journal

Notes from the road.

Place · 4 min · 28 September 2026

Why Poland is becoming a serious wine country

Twenty registered producers in 2009. More than six hundred today. What changed in fifteen years, and what the first appellation will mean.

Grape · 3 min · 14 September 2026
What cool-climate Polish Pinot Noir tastes like
Red cherry, raspberry, a line of acidity, and about 100 hectares of it across 120 wineries.
Road · 3 min · 31 August 2026
Following the Amber Road
Gdańsk to Aquileia by car, with a stop at every vineyard the Roman traders would have passed.
Place · 3 min · 10 August 2026
The limestone soils of Moravia
Jurassic sea floor under the Pálava hills, and what it does to Welschriesling.
Grape · 3 min · 20 July 2026
Five Central European grapes you should know
Solaris, Pálava, Furmint, Rebula, Blaufränkisch: one paragraph each, no homework.
Place · 3 min · 29 June 2026
A visit to Lower Silesia
Granite, a stream, a red Riesling, and the mildest weather in Poland.
People · 3 min · 8 June 2026
The return of small winemaking after communism
From Roman Myśliwiec's 1982 plantings at Jasło to the 2008 law that let a two-hectare estate sell its own wine.

Newsletter