by admin | Sep 5, 2019 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Annapolis, MD “Hopefully she hasn’t read what we’ve written about that buttery Chardonnay,” we thought. We were talking to Maggie Kruse, new head winemaker for Jordan Winery in California. Don’t worry, we’re not about to sell you a $90 California Cab (though if you...
by admin | Aug 28, 2019 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Annapolis, MD Out in the Atlantic, under a boiling, cloudless oven of a sky, green vines grow on the steep, pitch-black slopes of a sleeping volcano over 12,000 feet high. The vines, some 300 years old, have woven into dense braids to produce grapes with names that...
by admin | Aug 21, 2019 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Sperryville, Virginia The air hangs heavy on the front porch of this old Colonial house. White paint flakes off the column to our left. In front of us, off in the distance, the crests and troughs of the Blue Ridge Mountains roll on westward. For a moment, we...
by admin | Aug 15, 2019 | Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter
“Anyone can produce a great wine… But it takes a genius to sell one,” our neighbor, the wine magnate Donald Hess, told us once. Sometimes the geniuses try a little too hard, as we discovered in Colorado recently. America is not known for its high-altitude wines. Not...
by admin | Aug 7, 2019 | Tasting
Your Italian wine tasting video with French winemaker Julien Miquel is ready for release. By now, you should have received your shipment of Italian wines. If not, don't worry, they've been shipped and are on their way to you. You’ll discover snapshots of the producers...
