by Wine Explorer | Jun 10, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
For those unfamiliar with the gris de gris, it’s one of the more rare wine styles. Untouched, as of yet, by the industry’s hype machine (which is still focused on orange wine and “all-day rosé”), gris de gris is of tremendous value for the lively, “exuberant”...
by Wine Explorer | Jun 3, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Finally, it arrived – a bottle of clear, ruby liquid... clairet. If you’ll remember from a couple weeks ago, clairet is a type of Bordeaux, the last vestige of the original Bordeaux style. In the Middle Ages, Bordeaux was a light, quaffable wine somewhere between a...
by Wine Explorer | May 27, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Regular readers might accuse us of saying some hurtful things about chardonnay – that buttery oak syrup of a wine so often found in cheap magnums on the kitchen counters of the quietly desperate. But really, we like chardonnay. At least some chardonnay. Okay, so maybe...
by Wine Explorer | May 20, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
The poet Keats said of ‘claret’ that it did not, like other wines, “assault the cerebral apartments,” “but rather walks like Aladdin about his enchanted palace, so gently you do not feel his step.” A century and two-thirds later, advertising genius David Ogilvy...
by Wine Explorer | May 6, 2022 | Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter
“Feels like a wine you’ll find in a Michelin-starred restaurant” says Julien Miquel of our Domaine Aléofane 2019. In case you haven’t yet received your French Collection, Aléofane comes to us from the village of Crozes-Hermitage, which sits on a terraced vine hillside...
