by admin | Oct 7, 2024 | Tasting, Wine Education
What is natural wine, anyway? Our resident winemaking expert Julien Miquel weighs in on “natural wine”... is it a regulated term? (No)... Are so-called natural wines better representations of their local terroir? (Julien’s answer may surprise you)... And the question...
by admin | Sep 30, 2024 | Tasting, Wine Education
Julien Miquel explains why certain wineries use “Chateau” in their name... How the French revolution changed the wine landscape & popularized this (formerly) aristocratic term… And why you’ll see the word pop up in the US & other places (but never Italy or...
by admin | Sep 30, 2024 | The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
Calchaquí Valley, Argentina Watch that burn! There’s something primal about it. The fire, the slow crackle of wood, the scent of meat rising into the air. You don’t just show up for the meat at an asado. You arrive early. You settle in. The event unfolds slowly, like...
by admin | Sep 23, 2024 | Tasting, Wine Education
Is France’s 2024 vintage the worst in a century? French winemakers had a bad year: crops were small, and the quality is questionable (we’ll have to see how fermentation goes to know for sure). But are thing really as bad as the headlines are suggesting? Julien Miquel...
by admin | Sep 23, 2024 | Wine Education
Calchaquí Valley, Argentina Let me tell you — here in this club, you pay for dust. Sitting down to write this, I had to blow dust off my laptop. The type of dust that talks. The same kind as if it were an old book left on a shelf for 100 years. I've spent the past few...
