Vouette et Sorbee's Bio-Dynamism
By Maggie Scudder
Terrior is fun for wine geeks to talk about. We can go on and on about subtle differences all day. But it really comes down to this: Betrand’s careful attention is...
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Simple Guide to Hermitage Wine Region
By Jeff Patten
Hermitage may be the greatest wine made from Syrah anywhere in the world. In this post, Jeff takes a close look at Hermitage, focusing on everything from its history and...
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Rosé At Home: Taste With Us
By All About Self Employment Collaborator
We want to take a moment, as the holiday weekend dawns on us, to talk with you about how to organize an at-home tasting! There's no better way to experience wine...
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Old School Bordeaux, Ready to Drink Now
By Jeff Patten
Ready-to-drink, Biodynamic, Old-school Bordeaux for a Song Maison Blanche is one of our favorite biodynamic addresses in Bordeaux. It’s also one of our favorite old-school Bordeaux, in a way: at MB they...
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Burgundy Quality Levels: A Guided Tasting, at Home
By Maggie Scudder
Back in November, as a part of Flatiron Wines’ educational series, I hosted a class entitled ‘Burgundy: On The Level’. In it we discussed the levels of complexity and detail to...
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To Burgundy and Back Again: 2018 Hospices de Beaune
By Joshua Cohen
Last year, on the third Sunday of November, the 158th annual wine auction was held at the Hospices de Beaune. People from all over the world meet in the historic...
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Top Ten Burgundy Producers (That you can actually buy…)
By Jeff Patten
I was recently looking for some guidance on what Burgundy producers to collect and I came across a Top Ten list online. It had some names I had heard of,...
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2017 Burgundy: A First Look at the Vintage
By Jeff Patten
What’s the big picture on the 2017 vintage? What’s the one thing I need to know? At this point, most commentators are saying that they like the vintage very much. We’ll break...
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Dispatches from Burgundy: June 2018
By flatironwines Admin
A new generation is shaking up Burgundy.
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Top 5 Reasons to drink Cru Bourgeois
By Jeff Patten
I want to give you five reasons to look beyond Bordeaux' Grand Cru Classé–more specifically, five reasons to look at the Cru Bourgeois wines for delicious values that do everything...
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Cru Bourgeois 101
By Jeff Patten
If you love wine, especially Bordeaux, you need to pay special attention to this category. It provides some of the very best values in the world for red wines in...
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Don't miss out on the 2014 Red Burgundy Vintage!
By Jeff Patten
2014 was one of those rare vintages in Burgundy that was equally good for red and white wines. Most of the hyperbole was directed to the fantastic quality of the...
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A Brief History of Chateauneuf-du-Pape
By Jeff Patten
...in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, there was a castle that the pope lived in. In the 14th century a castle was built on the hill over the village. This was during the Avignon...
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