Flaneur Pinot Noir: Doing Everything Right to Make you Happy
By Lee Madueno
Flaneur is a team of passionate wine lovers who have a vision of wine that is incredibly consistent with our own, and with so many of you. They’re focus is...
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Martha Stoumen's Fall Release
By Linden McGreevy
As a first-generation and self-funded winemaker, Martha set out to explore the evolving identity of California wine through the lens of Mediterranean grapes grown in the warmer pockets of Mendocino...
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Guiborat: It’s All About Chalk
By Jeff Patten
Some Champagne deliver luxury. Some make, essentially, Grand Cru Burgundy with bubbles. We love both styles when done right. But today we want to focus on a producer, Guiborat, that delivers one...
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Domaine La Manarine - Chateauneuf-du-Pape How It Is Meant To Be
By Jeff Patten
This is Chateauneuf-du-Pape how it is meant to be – a wine that is deep, complex and immersive, filling the senses, but not overwhelming them. It is a wine that...
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Santa Duc Gigondas: Way More than Poor Man’s Chateauneuf-du-Pape
By Lee Madueno
Today, we offer to you a producer that is widely considered one of the best, and often the very best, of Gigondas: Santa Duc. They are a very old name...
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Time for a Road Trip: Vinos Pijoan of Guadalupe
By Lee Madueno
As most of you know by now, we believe that wine offers adventure. Every time you open a bottle of wine, it’s like you are traveling to another place (a...
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A Rare Thing: Margaux-like Medoc from a Master
By Lee Madueno
Michel Theron, the one-man show behind Clos du Jaugueyron, can be applauded simply for his small scale of production. Or for his commitment to biodynamic farming, which is far more...
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Division: Effortless Wines from Oregon
By Lee Madueno
Truly talented people have a knack for making their best work look effortless. Likewise, Division's wines make it seem like all Oregon should be affordable and exquisite. The wines share a taut...
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Domaine de L'Ecu: Classic Muscadet from a Master of Single Vineyards
By Lee Madueno
Muscadet—like Burgundy, Champagne, the Mosel, Piedmont, and a few other wine regions of the world—has become known for the terroir of individual parcels. At its best, Muscadet is one of...
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Eva Fricke: Perfect Autumn Riesling
By Lee Madueno
Autumn is here, and that means it’s time to drink Riesling. Not sweet Riesling – we’ll get to that when the weather cools off some more – but something dry. Let’s...
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Peay “Cep”: An American Adventure in “Second” Wines
By Lee Madueno
We love Peay Vineyards and have written about them quite a few times. What’s not to love about passionate wine producers pioneering in the wild, cold climates of Sonoma’s Pacific coast? Well, we...
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Sophisticated Sancerre for September
By Joshua Cohen
Crochet has long been one of the best in the entire Loire, and a cornerstone of the Neal Rosenthal portfolio for over 40 years. They have some of the best...
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Baxter: Doing It Right
By Lee Madueno
Here's a story of someone who really cares about vineyards. Who does everything to allow the vineyard to express its characters through wine. This requires attentive farming, preferably organic and without...
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