Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 22/12/2025Spent my Solstice birthday tasting the scintillant wines from Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber of La Garagista their home farm in Barnard, Vermont. Good friends, crackling fire, animated discussion about food, wine, and life. Feeling grateful. Welcome, Yule! 040
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 10/12/2025Visual tasting notes on four wines. More at www.makerstable.com/p/presquile-... 030
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 21/05/2025I’m thrilled to learn I won 2nd Place in the 2025 World Food Photography Awards in the category Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year / Places. Many thanks to the judges and organizers for this honor! Find all winning images at www.worldfoodphotographyawards.com/finalists-ga... 1100
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 14/05/2025I'm thrilled to announce that I've been selected as finalist in the World Food Photography Awards 2025. 📸 Winners will be announced next week. Fingers crossed! #photography #foodphotography 060
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 25/04/2025Sangiovese, the modern vinous king of Tuscany, is an alloyed grape, the offspring of a crossing of Ciliegiolo, which appeared here as early as the Middle Ages, and Calabrese di Montenuovo, introduced from the southern reaches of the Italian peninsula. Read more: terroirreview.com/2025/04/23/t... 050
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 22/04/2025✍🏼 Happy to learn I’ve been longlisted again in both writing categories in the 67 Pall Mall Global Wine Communicator Awards. 🏆 Shortlists will be announced in July and winners in September. 🥂 Many thanks to the judges and organizers for this honor. #writing #winewriting #longform #shortform 040
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 04/04/2025“Wine should be as simple as possible. You should not use every process just because you have the option to use more than 300 additives. I prefer to drink water.” — Joško Gravner Read more in “The Gravner Notebook” terroirreview.com/2022/09/05/t... 292
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 28/03/2025Eons ago, Piedmont was under the sea. When waters receded, they left behind 6km of sand, marl, silt, clay, sandstone, gypsum, calcium, all now layered and mixed, compacted and uplifted. Piedmont is unquestionably a wine region that needs soil experts. Read more: terroirreview.com/2025/03/16/t... 120
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 27/03/2025Three Chiara Boschis wines, all ripe, fresh, and drinkable. I admired the Langhe Nebbiolo’s complexity and learned a new word, “baroleggia,” or Barolo-like, for a Barolo-style Nebbiolo from Langhe. (And it’s roughly half the price.) Find all 65 recommended wines at terroirreview.com/2025/03/16/t... 190
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 26/03/2025 “What do you do at the winery?” I asked. He smiled modestly. “A little of everything. I clean the floors, I work in shipping, I do sales, the vines…” “So, you also work in production?” I asked. “Yes,” he said. “I am the winemaker.” Read more: terroirreview.com/2025/03/16/t... #vino #nebbiolo 151
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 26/03/2025@birdsoftheworld.bsky.social has created a four-page sparrow guide for confused birders like me. #birding #birders 95627.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/95627/... 091
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 24/03/2025“Dolcetto is a simple wine, but in some cases can tell a story. We don’t want to make something strange, rude, loud. We look for simplicity and balance.” — Giulio Abrigo Read more: terroirreview.com/2025/03/16/t... #wine #dolcetto 180
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 04/03/2025Genius. (I used "writer," my profession.) www.opmreply.com?mode=salty 020
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 10/02/2025I’ve been experimenting with naturalistic portraiture, learning how to capture light, expression, and character with brushstroke. In this self portrait I’ve merged myself into another of my paintings, shifting the mood. Just putting this out there: I’m open to commissions. #painting #portrait 090
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 07/02/2025Today's email to my congresspeople. Feel free to copy/paste this language. Broken down in comments. 2110
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 14/12/2024I flew to London last week to see art, eat food, drink #wine, and stomp around old haunts. But I also went to meet in person—at last!—colleagues I’ve known for years. The Circle of Wine Writers had its holiday party Monday, and as Chair, it felt important to show up. I'm glad I did. 📸 Steven Morris 1251
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 08/12/202440F, raining, and windy along the Thames today. There’s a reason they call it the off season. 030
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 08/12/2024Outstanding Joan Mitchell exhibit at Tate Modern right now. Large scale works from 1971–1999. Scrumptious use of color, gesture, layering to suggest landscape. Such emotional work. So pleased to have seen it. 040
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 05/12/2024Me and him at Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels in Neal’s Yard. When I was twenty I worked around the corner, long before this wine bar, or really any wine bar, existed. 2120
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 04/12/2024Arrived in London. Two tired Americans on the Piccadilly Line from Heathrow. At rush hour. With luggage. Fortunately we mostly speak the language. #sorry #ta 2110
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 29/11/2024Impromptu Thanksgiving dinner for two. It was too messy to venture out, but this spinach pastry was no hardship. 0130
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 27/11/2024Everyone's getting carrots for Christmas this year. #harvest #twentyfivepounds 070
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 26/11/2024Crescent moon rising into a fine black sky. Lousy iPhone photo from my pjs out the kitchen door. Too bleary eyed to get out the big glass and tripod at 3:00 a.m. This and the memory must suffice. 040
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 19/11/2024After years of friendship and collaboration, Paula Sidore and I finally met in person today! 😍🥂 #wine #winewriters 020
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 17/11/2024A single Nerello Mascalese grape cluster. Agronomist Rosario Raciti, of Tenuta Terre Darrigo, estimates it weighs 2 kilos. 🍇🏋️ #wine #etna #winegrapes #nerellomascalese 5546
Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 15/11/2024Morning visitor, mostly looking away. She came across our threshold then crisscrossed the lawn, sniffing and seeking. My neighbor spotted her next. She seems young and playful, and we’re grateful she’s keeping our rodent population in check. #bobcat 060
