by admin | Mar 17, 2025 | The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
Paris, France A threat makes a better headline than a landed punch. That’s the odd, thrilling tension swirling in the wine world right now—like storm clouds drifting over a Tuscan vineyard. A threat keeps us on edge; once the punch lands, we’re left to sort out the...
by admin | Mar 10, 2025 | The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
Paris, France February dragged. Grey skies. Cold mornings. Short days. Paris felt heavy. It’s that time of year when the seasons shift, when you start seeing lonely gloves on the pavement—dropped by someone rushing through a morning chill, a midday thaw, and another...
by admin | Mar 3, 2025 | The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
Hello Explorers, I remember the first time Will and I tasted Finca El Monte in 2023. We were visiting Matías Etchart at his Calchaquí Valley winery for dinner. We started with empanadas, baked in the wood-fired oven, as we always do. Then came pollo al disco—chicken...
by admin | Feb 24, 2025 | The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
“In victory, you deserve Champagne; in defeat, you need it.” — Napoleon Bonaparte. February is that month—the last gasp of winter keeping us from the rush of spring, the warmth, the good stuff. It’s when gym memberships quietly get canceled, when the gray sky...
by admin | Feb 17, 2025 | The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
I found myself in Paris this past week, lost in the labyrinth of VinExpo. From Monday to Wednesday, I wandered the cavernous halls, tasting my way through the world—France to Italy, Georgia to California, the familiar to the esoteric. By day’s end, my palate was shot,...
by admin | Feb 10, 2025 | The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
I found myself in a Parisian barbershop. Another test of instinct. The doubt crept in the moment I realized I had to explain how I wanted my hair cut beyond just saying, ‘shorter.’ I hesitated. A simple act. Yet stripped of my usual tools—language,...
