We continue our Wine in 5 series with arguably one of the best Bordeaux appellations, Margaux! Julien tells us about his old stomping grounds… From what it was like to work at Château Margaux… To the wines you absolutely have to try… And how it stacks up on our...
Tasting Our New West Coast Wine Collection
“Really dark... like a black hole,” Julien Miquel says while pouring a glass of Tamber Bey, one of...
Basement Wine (US Wine History Pt. 2)
American wine was reborn in the basement of the Modesto Public Library in California. There,...
American Wine: What You Need to Know
How did America’s wine industry go from rivaling Europe to becoming almost nonexistent by the...
Napoleon III, A Wine Marketing Genius
With the Wine Explorer out this week, we’ll revisit a classic essay from last year, about Napoleon...
“Gray” Wines of Languedoc Revisited
For those unfamiliar with the gris de gris, it’s one of the more rare wine styles. Untouched, as...
The Verdict on Clairet
Finally, it arrived – a bottle of clear, ruby liquid... clairet. If you’ll remember from a couple...
The wine we love to hate
Regular readers might accuse us of saying some hurtful things about chardonnay – that buttery oak...
Aladdin’s Wine (a claret explainer)
The poet Keats said of ‘claret’ that it did not, like other wines, “assault the cerebral...
“a Michelin star wine” (Your French Tasting w/ Julien)
“Feels like a wine you’ll find in a Michelin-starred restaurant” says Julien Miquel of our Domaine...
A Collection of Old Souls
Our upcoming French Collection has more old vine wine than any other collection we’ve sourced....
A French Retrospective with Julien Miquel
Ladies and gents… we’ve got new French wines on the way! Expect more info on that in the coming...
shrinkage
Last week we delved into the matter of the shriveled grapes, riddled with botrytis, that grow...
