Dear Reader, The Surgeon General recently issued a stark advisory linking alcohol to cancer risk. The media, as expected, wasted no time distilling this into oversimplified headlines that sounded like: Wine Equals Cancer. The Surgeon General’s warning about alcohol...
Rattlesnake wine, plus Julien’s Q&A
“If disease comes for the vines, it will kill the roses first,” explained our host. Sipping a...
Forbidden Wine of the Atlas Mountains
In the foothills of the Atlas Mountains lies a ruined town. A colonnade traces the outline of the...
Update from the Argentine Harvest
It looks to be a warm week in the Calchaquí Valley. One last burst before winter. Up at the higher...
Sauv Blanc from the Fault Zone
No weekly video from Julien this week as he has been hard at work preparing the tasting video for...
Taste Your Aussie/NZ Wine Collection with Julien Miquel
Dear Member, All of our wines from Australia and New Zealand have shipped. In your case you will...
The Rusted Roots of Coonawarra
Last week, we took you on a tour of two Australian vineyards: Langmeil, with its 19th century...
John Wayne in a Flower Shirt
Syrah is a hard wine. A dry wine. It is perhaps the most similar to malbec of all the European...
Can you talk like a sommelier?
Well, a week into our unofficial quarantine, we finally caved… We opened up our Manzanos 2008...
Please Stop Calling It “Burgundy”
We’re hard at work shipping out our remaining Spanish wines today. So we’ll keep this week’s...
Mountain Wineries of Chile
This week, we write to you from London’s Shard (a skyscraper in central London that looks like a...
Diego Discovers a Grape Long Thought Extinct
“For nearly 100 years, they thought the vines were merlot,” reports Diego, after...
Sipping Rum from Volcanic Ash
Tola, Nicaragua Not much wine in Nicaragua, but the rum sure goes down easy. Surprisingly easy, in...