by admin | Sep 19, 2019 | The Wine Explorers Letter
First of all: Congratulations to all of you who were able to purchase Italian cases! We sold out much faster than we expected. Demand was so high, in fact, that we’re already trying to secure a few extra cases of our upcoming French shipment (which will include a...
by admin | Sep 12, 2019 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Baltimore, MD If you looked closely at the notes we included with your first shipment of small-batch, Argentine wines, then you know that aging your Tacana and Puramun malbecs for another decade could yield remarkable results. High-altitude malbecs, in general, are...
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...
