Dear Member, Ascensión was just 20 years old when her father, the General, died. Two decades earlier, in 1810, her family had found itself on the wrong side of the Argentine revolution. The General had been serving as colonial governor…
No missive this week as we spend some much needed time with our family this Christmas. But today, Julien Miquel takes a look back at 2021 and our favorite wines of the year. We sourced 24 wines… from the vast…
Why does extreme altitude winemaker Augustin Lanus age his wine Salvaje (malbec, single vineyard, 8,694 ft.) for a year in a concrete egg? Salvaje is a recent addition to the Partnership roster. Our man in Argentina, Diego, tasted it for…
Up at about 9,000 feet above the world, with little atmosphere to protect them from the sun’s rays, little white butterflies dance above lavender blossoms. “I had never been to Gualfin [the Bonner ranch in Argentina’s remote Calchaquí Valley] at…
In 1395, Philippe le Hardi, Duke of Bourgogne, outlawed the wine grape gamay, calling it a “very bad and disloyal plant.” His objection was that gamay, which is easy to grow and ripens early, was displacing pinot noir in Bourgogne’s…
Note: We’re sending out the weekly missive early this week, as we’re headed to spend some much-needed time with our family for Thanksgiving. Plus, we thought you might want to give this a read before your own turkey dinner… Bad…
The earliest known record of people playing chess (or chess as we know it, at least) comes from Valencia, on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, in the 15th century. At that point, Valencia was the largest city in the Kingdom of Aragon…
In the northeast of Spain, just outside the coastal city of Barcelona, a small mountain range called the Muntanyes d’Ordal wring some of the moisture out of the Mediterranean air as it reaches the hill country of Penedès. Rainfall in…
Happy Hallowine! In this week’s special Halloween video, resident expert Julien Miquel takes a break from our regularly scheduled content to show us some of the spookiest wines on the market, for your perfect, grown-up Halloween treat… The two previous…
A little ways inland from Spain’s northern coast, the wet sea air collides with the Cantabrian Mountains, swelling the Ebro river with rainwater as it flows southeast towards the town of Haro, in Rioja. La Sierra CantabriaCredit: Basotxerri, Wikimedia You’ve…
