Last week with wine expert Julien Miquel we took a look at the rising alcohol levels in wine. Check it out here if you missed it. This week he tackles the big question: what is to be done? Winemakers are ever-adaptable, and this isn’t the first time the industry has...
5 Gifts You Shouldn’t Give a Wine Lover
Fortune Business Insights reported earlier this year that the market for alcohol-free adult...
Finer Points of Vine Pruning
Our recent foray into the Mediterranean Sea introduced us to two lesser-known types of vine...
How Virginia Won World’s Best Wine
*** In celebration of Thanksgiving, we're re-running our essay from 2019 about the early wine...
A Gaucho Thanksgiving
“We’d love to come visit Dad, but I just don’t think it’s safe...” If that sounds like a recent...
Should you worry about sulfites? Here’s the truth
The rain has been tapping on the skylight above us all day. You certainly couldn’t grow grape...
The World’s Northernmost Commercial Winery
Deep in the Norwegian countryside, under a frozen sky, a grape fights for its life. It’s cold...
Are point scores useful when buying wine?
This week we’re wrapping up last shipments for the Mediterranean Collection. So we’ll leave you in...
How Old, Exactly, Is Wine?
*** “Absolutely heaven” says Julien Miquel about our nero d’Avola. Click here to watch his tasting...
What We Found in the Mediterranean
*** We're hard at work putting together your Mediterranean Collection and we'll be sending them...
Lost Empires, Sex, and Wine in Sardinia’s “Blue Zone”
***Julien’s busy preparing the tasting video for our new collection of wines. So no new video this...
Wines from the Volcano
On an island in the Mediterranean, little green vines appear to erupt from black obsidian. As...
Lab Testing Our Wines
We’ll keep it short this week as we ship out the remaining Tacana 2018 and prepare for our...