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 on drinkability. They want us to enjoy their wines without effort, and probably with a meal.
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 County.
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 thing above all else: the chalky goodness of Chardonnay grown in the Cotes des Blancs.
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 instantly impresses, not by branding a sledgehammer, but rather by weaving an intricate rainbow of aromatics and flavors.
Flatiron Wines invites you to our 1st Annual California Harvest Tasting. This will be a walk-around tasting from 6p - 8p on Thursday October 26th and feature 30+ wines from some of our favorite local producers who are at the forefront of winemaking in the Golden State. We will close the shop an hour early, giving you the chance to meet the hardworking folks responsible for crafting your favorite wines. Plus, enjoy the opportunity to purchase bottles at discounted prices.
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 in the region and they have many of the best sites.
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 terroir), another time (a vintage) and another culture (local wine traditions). Bottles of wine have brought us to some farflung places, like the mountains of Corsica, the volcanoes of the Canary Islands, and deep into central Asia.
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 challenging – and quite a bit more rare – on the perpetually humid Left Bank than in most places. But none of that would matter much if Theron wasn’t a supremely gifted winemaker.
Truly talented people have a knack for making their best work look effortless. Likewise,Division's winesmake it seem like all Oregon should be affordable and exquisite. The wines share a taut hum of acidity, harmoniously enshrined in cool, restrained fruit, floating in a pool of minerality, the structure so seamless, so…effortless.
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 the great, terroir-driven (and cellar-worthy!) dry white wines of the world. And yet, it costs just a fraction of what most of the others do.
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 drink something from Eva Fricke.
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 have yet another reason for you to love them today.
