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What’s The Fuss About Champagne?

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Monsieur Malbeck, revisited

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.10.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Writing about gauchos these past two weeks has us thinking about malbec. But where does this quintessential Argentine grape come from?…

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Gauchito Gil: Cowboy Saint

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.10.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.10.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.10.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.10.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] On long, dusty roads in the Calchaquí Valley, one occasionally passes a solitary tree or rock heap with what looks like a shrine, shrouded in…

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How to Rescue an Opened Wine Bottle

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.10.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.10.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.10.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.10.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] First a note: We still have a limited number of cases from our Italian collection available (see inventory here). However, supplies are going fast. Click here…

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The Ram’s Scrotum

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.10.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.10.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.10.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.10.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] This week, we continue our crash course on wine bottle shapes, from a bottle possibly named for a bovine’s nether regions, to fiascos, to the…

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Our 4 Favorite Wine Books

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”] The Tuscan wines from our Italian Collection reminded us of one of our favorite wine books, A Vineyard in Tuscany. This week, we’re going to run through our four…

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Julien Tastes Our Italian Collection (chili?)

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”] “When I smell this wine, I am transported to Tuscany – the warm cypress trees… the earth… the hot summer in the hills… it certainly has the signature of…

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From Sunbaked Sicily to Breezy Tuscany (Our New Italian Collection)

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Attention: Our new Italian Collection will be shipping mid-July! The last time we sourced a collection from Italy, it was 2019 (and our second-ever Partnership collection). We…

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The Iron Baron Who Invented Chianti

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Back in 2019, the Partnership imported its second-ever collection of foreign wine – the Italian Collection. At first we had not…

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Orange over Rosé

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] 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…

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