by Wine Explorer | Jul 1, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
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 of California. Studying these guides, they remade themselves as winemakers....
by Wine Explorer | Jun 24, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
How did America’s wine industry go from rivaling Europe to becoming almost nonexistent by the 1960s? This week we’ll revisit the history of American wine. Editor's Note: If you missed our "wine of the week" email, we have two very unique Argentine wines available......
by Wine Explorer | Jun 17, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
With the Wine Explorer out this week, we’ll revisit a classic essay from last year, about Napoleon III, the greatest wine marketer of all time. Speaking of France... a 90pt fruity, organic wine from the historic Cabardès region... an old vine Rhône Red from a...
by Wine Explorer | Jun 10, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
For those unfamiliar with the gris de gris, it’s one of the more rare wine styles. Untouched, as of yet, by the industry’s hype machine (which is still focused on orange wine and “all-day rosé”), gris de gris is of tremendous value for the lively, “exuberant”...
by Wine Explorer | Jun 3, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Finally, it arrived – a bottle of clear, ruby liquid... clairet. If you’ll remember from a couple weeks ago, clairet is a type of Bordeaux, the last vestige of the original Bordeaux style. In the Middle Ages, Bordeaux was a light, quaffable wine somewhere between a...
by Wine Explorer | May 27, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Regular readers might accuse us of saying some hurtful things about chardonnay – that buttery oak syrup of a wine so often found in cheap magnums on the kitchen counters of the quietly desperate. But really, we like chardonnay. At least some chardonnay. Okay, so maybe...
