by admin | Jan 23, 2020 | Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter
***This week, Julien is preparing the virtual wine tasting for our Spanish collection, which is being shipped as we write. His regular lesson series will resume next week.*** The Spanish don’t fear time. They eat late. They sleep late. The women seem to grow more...
by admin | Jan 23, 2020 | Tasting
“Nearly perfect,” pronounced winemaker Julien Miquel when he tasted our “Papa” wine from a little-known Spanish region called Valdeorras. We thought so too. And in fact, the Valdeorras region is already recieving rave reviews among critics. Says Julien: “this is going...
by admin | Jan 16, 2020 | The Wine Explorers Letter
If Spanish wine is a story of rivers – the Ebro in Rioja, the Duero in Ribera – then Galicia is the story of the Sil river, which also originates in the Cantabrian mountains, but flows due west out toward the Atlantic Ocean, slicing deep, narrow canyons into the...
by admin | Jan 9, 2020 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Last Sunday, Hollywood’s elite gathered at the world-famous Beverly Hills Hilton to eat vegan food (oh, Los Angeles…), hand out awards, and most importantly… drink some rather familiar-looking wines… The dinner menu and wine list from the Golden Globes ceremony In...
by admin | Jan 3, 2020 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Feliz Año Nuevo! We begin this new year with the matter of Spain. Most people don’t give it a second thought as a wine region. Until we recently, we’ll admit we’d only tasted Rioja, the most famous of their denominacións de origen (the Spanish equivalent of the French...
