
Eliza Dumais
Eliza Dumais is a writer and editor based in New York. Focusing mainly on wine, food and travel, her work has appeared in Food & Wine, Epicurious, Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Vogue and elsewhere.
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The food is fine, but what about the wine? A critique of the restaurant critic
The wine is fine too...
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The charm of wine labels: Do they matter more than what’s inside?
Sometimes it's ok to judge a book by its cover...
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The healing nature of wine harvest: A journey through manual labour and friendship
There's peace in getting your hands dirty...
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Why the hate for sweet wines?
Examining the overlooked delights...
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Who even is ‘the sommelier’?
Has the term's meaning been muddied..?
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Eliza Dumais: From rosé all day, to no way rosé. Has pink wine lost its lustre?
Rosé, just not all day...
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Eliza Dumais: ‘The copy that comes with a score is so essential to making comparisons’
Eliza Dumais on scoring wine...
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Blind faith: Eliza Dumais on our obsession with tasting blind
Why are we so fixated on tasting without seeing the label?
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Have we reached ‘Peak Can’? Eliza Dumais on the supposed joys of aluminium
I believe it was Plato who once said that while corks and screw-tops are both fine and good, you’re far more likely to get lucky if you opt for the former...
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The failure of the Surgeon General: Eliza Dumais on the irrelevance of warning labels
Eliza Dumais is dubious about the impact of warning labels on alcohol...
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Is January still dry? Eliza Dumais on an alcohol-free month
New Decanter columnist Eliza Dumais tackles Dry January...
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Wine in the US: A fraught evolution
The impact of Prohibition...
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