In This Issue

Daily Column

Come join the editor Jennifer Barnick as she searches for the Champagne Life....

Sparkling Wine

Interview with Carl Thoma owner of Van Duzer Winery and founding partner of Thoma Cressey Equity Partners by Dave Brown

Feature How sweet it is: Six Degrees of Champagne by Dr. Timothy Smith and David Sirois

Sparkling Wine Review Mark Kernaghan reviews champagnes mentioned in literature

Arts & Sciences The Gravity of Sugar...how the tool that measures sugar content in wine works.... by Dr. Timothy Smith

First Person

HelloGoodbye Felipe Victor Martinez says hello and Anna Luciano says goodbye.

Passion ForumAndreas Matern writes about online gaming.

Under the Goldlight—True Tales of Drinking Champagne Pete Hammer proves that humans can survive much and that Russians can survive anything.

Art & Literature

The Marcia Reed Virtual Gallery Photographer J. Blake Gordon

Drinker's Poetry Ian Detlefsen, Suzie Sims-Fletcher, and Robert Slattery

Fiction The Lump by George Mentis