Attention: Our new Italian Collection will be shipping mid-July! The last time we sourced a collection from Italy, it was 2019 (and our second-ever Partnership collection). We spent several days doing marathon tasting sessions in Verona. Aside from an incredible…
Back in 2019, the Partnership imported its second-ever collection of foreign wine – the Italian Collection. At first we had not been sure we would include a Chianti. As our importer, Barry, says, it is fiendishly difficult to find a…
It’s rosé day today (according to whom, we aren’t exactly sure). So let’s talk about rosé’s cooler older sister, orange wine. In the same way that rosé is made by letting red grape skins macerate with the juice for a…
Well into his 80s, Antonio de Nicola still makes every one of his wines by hand. For 56 years, he has harvested nebbiolo grapes from the misty slopes of Piedmont in Italy to make his Barolo, which he ferments in…
There’s a war raging up in the rolling hills of Piedmont – the Barolo Wars. Fog drapes over Nebbiolo vinesPhoto credit: BlueMoonInHerEyes It’s as nasty and contentious as any US presidential election, yet the Barolo Wars of Piedmont are not…
Back in 2020, our Mediterranean Collection featured wines with a history going back 3,000 years – long before anyone had the idea of draining the lands around Bordeaux to plant grapes there. (For example, our agiorgitiko was said to have…
We’ve been testing out rosés for the summer. Last week we opened a bottle of Miraval, a surprisingly high quality, yet drinkable offering from Provence’s Château Miraval (now owned by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt) and the Perrin winemaking family…
Last week, we talked Bordeaux, and specifically Le Médoc region – home to France’s most famous brands: Latour, Margaux, Lafite, Mouton. But why is Bordeaux, and Médoc in particular, so highly regarded? Most people assume it’s because the area produces…
We were celebrating a once-in-a-lifetime occasion. It was time to splurge. Besides which, we had already run through our last shipment from the Partnership. Stepping into our local wine shop, we passed such familiar haunts as Saint-Joseph… the Bourgogne… the…
We’ve been busy the last few weeks, what with getting our Alta California collection shipped out, shooting our new tasting video with wine expert Julien Miquel, and the Argentine harvest… not to mention our first-ever livestream this past weekend out…
