by admin | Sep 12, 2019 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Baltimore, MD If you looked closely at the notes we included with your first shipment of small-batch, Argentine wines, then you know that aging your Tacana and Puramun malbecs for another decade could yield remarkable results. High-altitude malbecs, in general, are...
by admin | Sep 5, 2019 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Annapolis, MD “Hopefully she hasn’t read what we’ve written about that buttery Chardonnay,” we thought. We were talking to Maggie Kruse, new head winemaker for Jordan Winery in California. Don’t worry, we’re not about to sell you a $90 California Cab (though if you...
by admin | Aug 28, 2019 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Annapolis, MD Out in the Atlantic, under a boiling, cloudless oven of a sky, green vines grow on the steep, pitch-black slopes of a sleeping volcano over 12,000 feet high. The vines, some 300 years old, have woven into dense braids to produce grapes with names that...
by admin | Aug 21, 2019 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Sperryville, Virginia The air hangs heavy on the front porch of this old Colonial house. White paint flakes off the column to our left. In front of us, off in the distance, the crests and troughs of the Blue Ridge Mountains roll on westward. For a moment, we...
by admin | Aug 15, 2019 | Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter
“Anyone can produce a great wine… But it takes a genius to sell one,” our neighbor, the wine magnate Donald Hess, told us once. Sometimes the geniuses try a little too hard, as we discovered in Colorado recently. America is not known for its high-altitude wines. Not...
by admin | Aug 2, 2019 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Annapolis, MD So, we’ve received queries from a few members to the effect of: “It’s the dead of summer… and I live in Texas… I’m afraid that my Italian wines are going to get cooked before they reach me.” That’s a real concern; you’re right to bring that up. There’s...
