FIXIN, France — More than 200 years ago, the early French wine authority André Jullien, in his book “Topography of All Known Vineyards,” cited the Clos de la Perrière as being among the top vineyards in all of Burgundy. He ranked the vineyard, here in this small village near the northern end of the Côte…
I was dying the morning I met Sarah. I ordered a latte from the campus coffee shop because she had done the same. To make up for it, I starved myself until late that night. Luckily, it had been made with skim milk, not whole, so I was allowed to have dinner. With a pandemic…
Erika Graves and Bradley Cameron had been together for roughly six years, and engaged for more than two, by the time they set off on a five-month road trip from Oakland, Calif., to New York and back in April 2021. Despite everything they had learned about each another in all that time as a couple,…
Despite their fast courtship, marriage was not always a priority for either. In 2017, they registered as domestic partners in Washington and, at first, “thought that was enough,” Mr. Gann said. But in the years that followed, the couple realized that “it is important to secure our rights” to marry, he added. The two became…
Of all the traits that have attracted Stephanie Nicole Insalaco and Thomas John Ciccotta to one another over the course of their relationship, perhaps none has drawn them closer than how each has treated other people along the way. The two first connected on the dating app Tinder in August 2017. A Queens native, Ms.…
He didn’t. Instead, he got her interested enough to agree to a weekend with him at Mohonk Mountain House, a resort in New Paltz, N.Y., a few weeks later. When Ms. Richard-Nagle, who lived in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, arrived at his Chelsea apartment for the road trip, she made note of his luggage. “He packed…
Just 20 minutes into their first date in January 2020, Lauren Elizabeth Levin and Chelsea Veronica Cimilluca, who had previously connected on the dating app Hinge, realized that they had already met in person. In October 2019, both had attended the same party at Public Records, a bar in Brooklyn, organized by Ellis Presents, which…