Children’s Atlas of Wine

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Grape kid @ the Children’s Atlas of Wine. Drawing maps, telling you why your drink is orange.

A World Cup ad featuring soccer players over Tums, Centrum Women 50+, Advil, and Sensodyne that's been altered to read "Every *SOMM* starts with an assist" The soccer players are holding emoji wine glasses
A stone quay leading out into a sound outside of Portland, Maine on an island that used to be owned by a rich guy who sold it to the state
And then there’s the rest of food media. On Eater’s Best New Restaurant list this year, only 2 of the 15 solely offer a tasting menu (Kabawa and Ki). Three out of 20 listed by Bon Appétit this year are tasting-menu restaurants (Provenance, Feld, and Wildweed). Food & Wine’s restaurant of the year is Diane’s Place, a Hmong all-day cafe in Minneapolis. And Esquire’s pick of the year, RVR, is an izakaya and tavern serving hand rolls and highballs. If a chef were trying to guarantee recognition in 2026, a tasting menu doesn’t exactly seem like a slam dunk.
Oniani points out that one should not overlook the growth of the Georgian wine industry, which is happening at the same time. “Our cuisine and our wine are inherently linked, so it’s not a surprise that as Georgian wine has become more popular in the U.S., so has the cuisine.” From 2011 to 2021, sales of Georgian wine in the United States have quadrupled.
"At the same time, more Americans are visiting: in 2013, about 25,000 visited, and by 2024, that number doubled to 50,000."
A hand drawn diagram describing "pinot": a variety with one step in the forest that, crossed with gouais blanc, birthed an entire universe of northern French grapes and that was brought all over the world. more details in the thread.
A hand drawn map of Burgenland, a borderland region in southeastern Austria. The left side is pen outline, the right has been watercolored
A handmade diagram illustrating the champagne method in ten steps (harvest grapes / press juice / make wine / assemblage / tirage aka add yeast and sugar / lees aging / riddling / disgorgement / dosage / done!)
A screenshot of part of a two foot tall illustrated timeline an a newsletter titled "What gets to be American (wine)?"
A screenshot of Table 22 "powering the new wine club era" with an "AI powered insights engine that interprets your inventory to draft a club concept only you could create"
Ins: Bricolage Pink orange wines Doppelbock, other grain-forward lagers, maybe just porridge Tubi A spoonful of poetry before bed A basket of warm flatbread with dinner Raccoons embracing domestication Italian white wine Cold soups, savory pies Library DVDs + a used $15 player Lunar cycles, specifically as cues for specific action (secret dancing, leaving the house, opening the last bottle of nosiola, howling) Chasing mezcal with N/A beer Postcards Deliberate imperfection Pairing spice + soft red wine Basque things: instruments made out of iron + stone, poaching in olive oil, turning the cod fleet around to stop the Inquisition from burning your witches, words that look hard to pronounce, men wearing slutty little silver earrings Venmo'ing your bodega guy instead of tapping to pay Unfortified palomino BTG Sacred trees / springs Butlerian jihad
Menu listing "Bay leaf daiquiri" at bar kabawa along with their other five specialty daiquiri variants
A WaPo editorial titled "Thankful for paper towels" subhed "Holiday travelers deserve better than inadequate and unsanitary hand dryers"
A screenshot of an Elon Musk tweet describing reading the Iliad as "maximum alpha, complete with fighting for princesses", and recommending "Penguin audiobook at 1.25x speed" because it was "meant to be a spoken, not written, story"
A water bottle at a banchan restaurant featuring a coquettish frog with a red bow...winking
A watercolor map of the "wine regions of Middle Earth", with regional descriptions that tbh are too small to read in this format
A screenshot of the Total Wine Temecula website with :/ over it
An archival scan of the New York Times' infamous 1939 Hitler puff piece, "Herr Hitler At Home in the Clouds"
Jancis Robinson's 1242 page reference 'Wine Grapes'
List of ‘bad wine bar’ names
Wrench-wielding grape person with 80s cat glasses from an Italian wine label
Watercolor card featuring an oyster shell with the earth inside, text reads “The world is your oyster* *as long as you have $40 for oysters
The duck dynasty meme talking about minerality in wine
Pen drawn map of Saumur, in the Loire (unfinished)
Detail of a watercolor map of the Loire, around Saumur.
a fancy house on the hill of Brézé, south of Saumur in the Loire Valley