by aricaribe | Aug 29, 2025 | Sidebar, Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper – The worst thing in your next wine glass Paris, France The worst thing in your next wine glass is not the wine. It’s pride. The guy who makes you feel small for asking a question. The shop clerk who thinks drinking only...
by aricaribe | Aug 23, 2025 | Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper Someone recently described our wine club members as “people with brains.” I took it as a compliment—but more importantly, as reassurance. Reassurance that in a world chasing quick fixes, viral trends, and instant answers, some...
by aricaribe | Aug 22, 2025 | Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper Celebrating Six Years in Wine and Wonder Faro, Portugal The car rental guy moved like someone scooping coleslaw at a midwestern potluck—unhurried, deliberate, as if the line in front of him didn’t exist. The road into town...
by aricaribe | Aug 21, 2025 | Sidebar, Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper Paris, France I was at the edge of Europe, near Faro, Portugal. Fresh fish. Good wine. A beautiful setting. The westernmost point of the continent, where the West becomes the East again. Old stone towns, salty Atlantic winds,...
by aricaribe | Aug 20, 2025 | Sidebar, Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper Malbec Turns Fifteen: From Borrowed Bottle to Argentina’s Icon Paris, France I don’t remember the first malbec I tasted. But I do remember the first one I couldn’t afford. It was at Don Julio, back when it was still a...
by aricaribe | Aug 19, 2025 | Sidebar, Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper Pope Francis Wine Story: Joy and Heritage “…a wedding feast lacking wine embarrasses the newlyweds – imagine finishing the wedding feast drinking tea? It would be an embarrassment!” Those weren’t the words of...
