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[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.3.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”] American wine was reborn in the basement of the Modesto Public Library in California.  There, brothers Ernest and Julio Gallo found old instructional guides on winemaking from the University…

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.3.2″] By the 1960s, there were zero wineries in Virginia, zero in Oregon, only 15 in Washington state, and barely 100 in California (compared to over 3,000 today). 70 years earlier, Virginia had been…

[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=”4.3.2″] We got a treat this week; someone sent us two bottles of “gris de gris” from Languedoc’s Corbières sub-region in France. For those unfamiliar with the…

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.3.2″] We’re wrapping up our last Australia/New Zealand shipments, so we’ll keep it short this week. First, some big news from Argentina… a shipping container of the Bonner family wine, Tacana 2018, along with…

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.3.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”] Finally, the heat arrived here in Baltimore. Just in time to notice that our air conditioner is broken. Things got desperate when we realized that our personal reserve of…

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.3.2″] On a cold night on the high plains… 12,000 feet above the world… a fire raged. The flames lit shadowy figures, currently at work ripping up a water line that ran along the…

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.3.2″ type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.3.2″ hover_enabled=”0″] Have you seen Julien Miquel’s Q&A video, yet? He tackles such subjects as “what do I drink with surf n’ turf?” … “what kind of wine glasses should I buy?” … “the…

[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=”4.3.2″] “If disease comes for the vines, it will kill the roses first,” explained our host. Sipping a merlot rosé out on the patio of a winery…

[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=”4.3.2″] In the foothills of the Atlas Mountains lies a ruined town. A colonnade traces the outline of the old main street, ending at a stone arch,…

[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=”4.3.2″ hover_enabled=”0″ module_id=”video”] It looks to be a warm week in the Calchaquí Valley. One last burst before winter. Up at the higher elevations (8,000 feet and…