This week, we debrief on our Easter wine selections. Last year, we broke our Lenten vows with a Partnership wine: the 2016 Télégramme Châteauneuf-du-Pape from our 2019 French Collection. We had meant to keep it cellared, but after two months…
*** In case you didn’t see our message earlier today, this week, we are celebrating the Partnership’s second year with a special cellar opening. Click here to see our inventory… *** Well, it’s been two years since our very first…
In one of the stranger stories from 2021 – a great robbery in Moët & Chandon’s Champagne vineyard. Unlike back in the 1980s, however, when thieves snuck onto French vineyards in search of illicit vine cuttings (smuggling them back to…
We had a chance to taste an incredible limited edition chardonnay recently. When we looked down at the label we gasped… it was from California. Longtime readers will know our distaste for the melted butter chardonnays from Napa. We put…
Contents: Where did the Word Gaucho Come From? The Culture of Gauchos Gauchos and Wine: A Brief History Famous Historical Gauchos Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: His History with Gauchos and Wine In Argentina Gauchos: An Integral Part of Argentine Culture Gauchos…
Slow week at the office. The global shipping crunch we reported on a few weeks ago continues to wreak havoc. The New York Times reports that traffic jams continue to plague ports around the world, with ships sometimes waiting days…
One of the more bizarre stories to surface in the world of wine recently… the release from prison of the author of a notorious Californian wine Ponzi scheme… More on that in a moment… But first, has your wine been…
No essay this week, as we’re debuting our wine expert Julien Miquel’s new Q&A series: for the rest of the year, you can submit questions to be personally answered in a monthly video installment. Each month, Julien will pick one…
First a note: We still have a limited number of cases from our extreme altitude Argentine collection available (see inventory here). However, supplies are going fast. Click here to reserve your bottles. Up about 9,000 feet above the world, with little…
Back in May 2020, our friend, semi-permanent hobo, financial writer, and family man Tom Dyson, went bullish on shipping tankers. His rationale was that the best time to invest in shipping companies is, firstly, when they are hated, and secondly,…
