In Florida, Autumn Never Asked Anyone to Retire the Chilled White

The word this season is that a white can stay on the table as the calendar turns, and that the heavier plates of the cooler months are better for having one poured beside them. From Palm Beach to Naples that sounds less like news than like a formality, since October here arrives with the air conditioning still running and nobody rushing to put the ice bucket away. The part worth noting is the second half: richer cooking isn't just tolerating a white, it's improved by one. Miami will read this as permission, Palm Beach as good manners, and Naples as something it had already decided.

With reporting from Robb Report.