by Wine Explorer | Jul 9, 2020 | Tasting
Dear Member, Our USA collection is on it’s way to you. In your case you will discover a Pinot Noir from Oregon’s rarest soil… A Cab Sauv from one of the oldest winemaking families in the US… A Tempranillo from Food & Wine Magazine’s...
by Wine Explorer | Jul 3, 2020 | 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 26, 2020 | The Wine Explorers Letter
By the 1960s, there were zero wineries in Virginia, zero in Oregon, only 15 in Washington state, and barely 100 in California (compared to over 3,000 today). 70 years earlier, Virginia had been producing the best wines in the world. Meanwhile, Californian “Burgundies”...
by Wine Explorer | Jun 11, 2020 | The Wine Explorers Letter
We got a treat this week; someone sent us two bottles of “gris de gris” from Languedoc’s Corbières sub-region in France. 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...
by Wine Explorer | Jun 4, 2020 | The Wine Explorers Letter
We’re wrapping up our last Australia/New Zealand shipments, so we’ll keep it short this week. First, some big news from Argentina… a shipping container of the Bonner family wine, Tacana 2018, along with Tacana reserva (never before on offer to Bonner Wines...