Martha shares writing advice from wine writer Andrew Jefford’s essay “Wine and Astonishment.” His main advice for writers: be astonished. This is part of a complete episode.
unwetting n.— «He cited the process called “unwetting,” describing it is the way water seems to be repelled or expelled from the surfaces of certain materials. When grapes were sprayed with a fungicide mist, he said, the...
lack the grapes v. phr.— «A similar thread came up on the O’Reilly Mac Blogger’s internal mailing list—writers fed up with endless snarking and small-minded mean-ness from readers lacking the grapes even to use their real names...