by Wine Explorer | Jul 15, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
What You’ll Learn Today Biodynamic Winemaking Organic Winemaking “Low Intervention” Winemaking Natural Wine The year was 1924 and Europe’s farmers had reported their soils seemed less productive, their animals less healthy. Coming after the advent of modern...
by Wine Explorer | Jul 8, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
“Really dark... like a black hole,” Julien Miquel says while pouring a glass of Tamber Bey, one of the wines in our new West Coast Collection (2018 cabernet sauvignon from Calistoga region in Northern Napa). In his winemaking career, Julien worked all over the world,...
by Wine Explorer | Jul 1, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
American wine was reborn in the basement of the Modesto Public Library in California. There, brothers Ernest and Julio Gallo found old instructional guides on winemaking from the University of California. Studying these guides, they remade themselves as winemakers....
by Wine Explorer | Jun 24, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
How did America’s wine industry go from rivaling Europe to becoming almost nonexistent by the 1960s? This week we’ll revisit the history of American wine. Editor's Note: If you missed our "wine of the week" email, we have two very unique Argentine wines available......
by Wine Explorer | Jun 17, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
With the Wine Explorer out this week, we’ll revisit a classic essay from last year, about Napoleon III, the greatest wine marketer of all time. Speaking of France... a 90pt fruity, organic wine from the historic Cabardès region... an old vine Rhône Red from a...
