Category The Wine Explorers Letter

[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”] Last week, we talked Bordeaux, and specifically Le Médoc region – home to France’s most famous brands: Latour, Margaux, Lafite, Mouton. But why is Bordeaux, and Médoc in particular,…

[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”] We were celebrating a once-in-a-lifetime occasion. It was time to splurge. Besides which, we had already run through our last shipment from the Partnership. Stepping…

[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”] We’ve been busy the last few weeks, what with getting our Alta California collection shipped out, shooting our new tasting video with wine expert Julien Miquel, and the Argentine…

[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=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”] Continuing up the coast from San Francisco past Napa, Sonoma, and Sonoma Coast, you find California’s northernmost wine region, the North Coast. The Pacific fog…

[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=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”] This week, we debrief on our Easter wine selections. Last year, we broke our Lenten vows with a Partnership wine: the 2016 Télégramme Châteauneuf-du-Pape from…

[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=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”] *** In case you didn’t see our message earlier today, this week, we are celebrating the Partnership’s second year with a special cellar opening. Click…

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”] In one of the stranger stories from 2021 – a great robbery in Moët & Chandon’s Champagne vineyard. Unlike back in the 1980s, however, when thieves snuck onto French…

[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=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”] We had a chance to taste an incredible limited edition chardonnay recently. When we looked down at the label we gasped… it was from California.…

[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=”4.11.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Contents: Where did the Word Gaucho Come From? The Culture of Gauchos Gauchos and Wine: A Brief History Famous Historical Gauchos Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: His History…