by Wine Explorer | Feb 26, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
No essay this week, as we’re debuting our wine expert Julien Miquel’s new Q&A series: for the rest of the year, you can submit questions to be personally answered in a monthly video installment. Each month, Julien will pick one or two and go in depth, leaving no...
by Wine Explorer | Feb 19, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
First a note: We still have a limited number of cases from our extreme altitude Argentine collection available (see inventory here). However, supplies are going fast. Click here to reserve your bottles. Up about 9,000 feet above the world, with little atmosphere to...
by Wine Explorer | Feb 12, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Back in May 2020, our friend, semi-permanent hobo, financial writer, and family man Tom Dyson, went bullish on shipping tankers. His rationale was that the best time to invest in shipping companies is, firstly, when they are hated, and secondly, when shipping rates...
by Wine Explorer | Feb 5, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
We’re deep into the vagaries of international shipping this week. Rather than our usual essay, we’ll leave you with our resident wine expert Julien Miquel as he continues his deep dive on acidity in wine. To refresh your memory, last week we learned what exactly...
by Wine Explorer | Jan 28, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
You may know Mexican singer Consuelo Velázquez for her famous 1940s bolero, “Bésame Mucho.” But it was her other bolero, “Amar y Vivir,” (listen to a great version here) that inspired the name of one of the most exciting wines in our new Argentine collection: the 2018...
by Wine Explorer | Jan 22, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Julien’s Extreme-Altitude Argentine Collection tasting video is live. Check it out here… **** Word from Diego is that shipments of our new Extreme-Altitude Argentine Collection began earlier this week. [If you’re not on the list to receive this shipment, or you...
