by admin | May 21, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
We don’t typically offer rosé at the Partnership. The only time we’ve done so was back in 2019, with the Domaine Ollier-Taillefer from Faugères, in France’s Languedoc region. That was a special find – organic, low alcohol, sun-bleached rather than pink in coloring,...
by admin | Jan 31, 2020 | The Wine Explorers Letter
We’re keeping things short this week. Most of the team is busy sending out the Spanish wine collection. Sourced from 600-year-old cellars… hand-pruned vines so gnarled looking, they appear to burst forth from the rocky soil “in agony”… steep, narrow...
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...
