Diego, writing from Buenos Aires Dear Reader, December has arrived. The sun is shining in Buenos Aires. The Jacaranda trees are in full bloom, painting the streets purple. The terraces of Palermo are full. Glasses clink. The city celebrates the end of polo season—the...
What I Didn’t Understand About Champagne
Baltimore, MD C. and I opened up our bottle of Moutard NV Brut last night… Notes of tropical...
A Tour de France
Paris, France Why is pinot noir from Burgundy so much more subtle than pinot noir from California?...
Under the Silver Sky
Paris, France Sipping a glass of St. Emilion up in the rafters of an old Haussmann building here...
Your French Wine Tasting with French winemaker Julien Miquel
Instead of one long tasting video (as he did for the Argentine and Italian collections), Julien has created a series of seven shorter videos giving each wine in our collection the attention it deserves. Before you open one of your bottles, simply click on the short video about it to learn about what you should look out for.
France’s “Best-Kept Secret”
It’s one of the strangest appellations in all of Europe, a sort of French “Brigadoon” located on a...
Part II – Notes from the French Harvest
Last week, we told you about how the vignerons of France toil at the intersection of three...
Notes from the French Harvest
This week, we hear from the front lines of the French vendange, the grape harvest that runs from...
What No One Understands About Champagne
First of all: Congratulations to all of you who were able to purchase Italian cases! We sold out...
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Malbec
Baltimore, MD If you looked closely at the notes we included with your first shipment of...
What a Jordan Insider Told Us
Annapolis, MD “Hopefully she hasn’t read what we’ve written about that buttery Chardonnay,” we...
A Desert Island With Europe’s Oldest Vines
Annapolis, MD Out in the Atlantic, under a boiling, cloudless oven of a sky, green vines grow on...
How Virginia Won World’s Best Wine
Sperryville, Virginia The air hangs heavy on the front porch of this old Colonial house. White...