Eat This! Drink That!

We get out the corkscrew (or not, if a screwtop) and bet most of us don't consider much more about the wine than this: 1) will my guests enjoy it 2) will it go with the food I have prepared 3) do I have enough But you can dive deeper. Understanding the history of the grape varieties, knowing the region the wine came from, having a snapshot of the country and maybe even its political/social/economic past and present might be of value. Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre talks here about her research and the book "Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine's New World" in ways that may open your awareness to the impact of settler colonialism and even the current state of global wine trade.