by admin | Jul 11, 2019 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Delray Beach, FL – We had occasion this past weekend to thumb through a copy of What Makes a Wine Worth Drinking by Terry Theise. If the name is unfamiliar, Theise is both a writer and an importer, a combination which is to the world of wine what being a...
by admin | Jul 5, 2019 | The Wine Explorers Letter
“Look at that sediment,” C said. “It’s almost like apple cider.” We were inspecting a cloudy bottle of “natural” sparkling wine we had recently received in the mail. As staunch critics of mass market wines and industrial winemaking, it is often expected that we...
by admin | Jun 27, 2019 | The Wine Explorers Letter
“The wines are on their way!” said Diego. We let out a whoop. After months and months, we finally had our Italian wines crossing the ocean to our warehouse in California. We had been surprised at how long it took, even after all our deals were in place, to get our...
by admin | Jun 21, 2019 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Annapolis, MD40 years ago, in the dead of night, a thief stole Burgundy’s greatest wine secret.Sneaking onto a vineyard on a moonless night, an American named Gary is said to have crouched down by a pinot noir vine, clipped a few branches, wrapped them in a damp rag...
by admin | Jun 13, 2019 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Sonoma, CA Never eat ice cream before going to a wine tasting. If you recall from last week, we had gone to the Marimar winery (as in Marimar Torres of Spain’s famous wine dynasty) to taste wines from grapes grown on the Sonoma Coast. The slopes of Marimar Sonoma...
