by Wine Explorer | Jun 4, 2020 | The Wine Explorers Letter
We’re wrapping up our last Australia/New Zealand shipments, so we’ll keep it short this week. First, some big news from Argentina… a shipping container of the Bonner family wine, Tacana 2018, along with Tacana reserva (never before on offer to Bonner Wines...
by Wine Explorer | May 29, 2020 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Finally, the heat arrived here in Baltimore. Just in time to notice that our air conditioner is broken. Things got desperate when we realized that our personal reserve of Mahi from New Zealand was long gone. A quick investigation of the cellar yielded a bottle of...
by Wine Explorer | May 22, 2020 | The Wine Explorers Letter
On a cold night on the high plains… 12,000 feet above the world… a fire raged. The flames lit shadowy figures, currently at work ripping up a water line that ran along the desert floor. Suddenly – a loud crack. The figures froze. The ceiling beams of the small cottage...
by Wine Explorer | May 15, 2020 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Have you seen Julien Miquel’s Q&A video, yet? He tackles such subjects as “what do I drink with surf n’ turf?” … “what kind of wine glasses should I buy?” … “the trick to buying a bottle of wine that everyone will enjoy?”… “how the Partnership...
by Wine Explorer | May 8, 2020 | The Wine Explorers Letter
“If disease comes for the vines, it will kill the roses first,” explained our host. Sipping a merlot rosé out on the patio of a winery near the ruined Roman town of Volubilis, we had wondered aloud why each vine row had at its head a rose bush. Siroua – a peppery...
by Wine Explorer | May 1, 2020 | The Wine Explorers Letter
In the foothills of the Atlas Mountains lies a ruined town. A colonnade traces the outline of the old main street, ending at a stone arch, raised in honor of some triumph long forgotten. The old main street in the town of Volubilis For nearly three hundred years,...
