by aricaribe | Aug 23, 2025 | Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper Someone recently described our wine club members as “people with brains.” I took it as a compliment—but more importantly, as reassurance. Reassurance that in a world chasing quick fixes, viral trends, and instant answers, some...
by aricaribe | Aug 22, 2025 | Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper Celebrating Six Years in Wine and Wonder Faro, Portugal The car rental guy moved like someone scooping coleslaw at a midwestern potluck—unhurried, deliberate, as if the line in front of him didn’t exist. The road into town...
by aricaribe | Aug 21, 2025 | Sidebar, Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper Paris, France I was at the edge of Europe, near Faro, Portugal. Fresh fish. Good wine. A beautiful setting. The westernmost point of the continent, where the West becomes the East again. Old stone towns, salty Atlantic winds,...
by aricaribe | Aug 20, 2025 | Sidebar, Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper Malbec Turns Fifteen: From Borrowed Bottle to Argentina’s Icon Paris, France I don’t remember the first malbec I tasted. But I do remember the first one I couldn’t afford. It was at Don Julio, back when it was still a...
by aricaribe | Aug 19, 2025 | Sidebar, Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper Pope Francis Wine Story: Joy and Heritage “…a wedding feast lacking wine embarrasses the newlyweds – imagine finishing the wedding feast drinking tea? It would be an embarrassment!” Those weren’t the words of...
