Dear Member, From its Trans-Caucasian origins, wine likely came to western Europe with the Phoenicians around 1,000 B.C. We don’t know much about the Phoenicians. They left behind no written record. And the ancient Greeks get most of the credit…
Dear Member, Ascensión was just 20 years old when her father, the General, died. Two decades earlier, in 1810, her family had found itself on the wrong side of the Argentine revolution. The General had been serving as colonial governor…
Dear Member, In January of last year, we wrote of Spain that “nowhere else in Europe do the echoes of the ancient and medieval ages still reverberate so clearly.” In this second Spanish collection, we find ourselves thinking about history…
Dear Member, “Will they hate this?” we wondered in June of 2020. We had just finished sourcing our first-ever American Collection—a group of six small-batch bottles not widely available outside their home states. Like everything we do at the Partnership,…
Dear Member, It’s been almost two years since we launched the Bonner Private Wine Partnership with a single shipping container packed with wines from the foothills of the Andes Mountains. The stars of that first collection were two Malbecs from…
Dear Member, The year was 1811. His vines—so carefully imported from France and Germany—had failed yet again. For all his skill as a collector of wine, Thomas Jefferson was beginning to suspect that his genius did not extend to growing…
Dear Member, “I’ve been sick as a dog… and I’ve had a wretched time trying to find a Pinot Noir… but I’m leaving Adelaide tomorrow. I’ll let you know what I find.” It was a month before the massive coronavirus…
Dear Member, Until recently, I had always thought of Italian wines as being about spending money and showing off — buying a $100 Barolo at dinner to impress friends, for example. But the real tradition of wine in Italy —…
