by Wine Explorer | Jul 2, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
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 good bottle... not because there...
by Wine Explorer | Jun 25, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
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 (very) short period of time, orange wine gets its...
by Wine Explorer | Jun 18, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
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 four enormous oak casks (called “botti”) under a rusty...
by Wine Explorer | Jun 11, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
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 driven by politics, color,...
by Wine Explorer | Jun 4, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
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 been the favorite wine of King...
