The last year has been spent zigzagging between Paris and Buenos Aires, two cities separated by more than just geography. Paris, all elegance and refinement. Buenos Aires, raw, improvised, and alive. The comparisons are inevitable, especially when you hear Buenos...
Argentina: The Deal of the Century
“We just paid $47 for a three-person steak dinner at one of the best steakhouses in the world!”...
Will and Julien Explore Argentina
Buenos Aires, AR Half the team (Will and Julien) is on the ground in Northwestern Argentina...
How to Pair Wine with Thanksgiving
Baltimore, MD We’re writing to you a little earlier than usual this week regarding a serious...
Beaujolais Time!
Baltimore, MD This week, wine lovers the world over celebrate the release of Beaujolais Nouveau… ...
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...