A Guide to the 10 Crus of Beaujolais
By Jeff Patten
This Guide to the 10 Crus of Beaujolais is just a quick introduction and round-up. Throughout this post, we've linked to our more detailed blog posts on each Cru. But...
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What is the difference between Beaujolais, Beaujolais Village, and the Beaujolais Crus?
By Joshua Cohen
The Beaujolais wine region is not small, but it isn’t too complicated either, and it’s definitely easier to understand than many French regions like Burgundy or the Rhône. The first thing to...
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Cru Beaujolais: Focus on Régnié
By Jeff Patten
Well, we've done all the big and famous Crus, but the little ones are still worth talking about. And drinking! We’ll start today with the gem, Régnié.
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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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Where to Search for your Reasonable Cellar in 2019
By Jeff Patten
While shopping for your Reasonable Cellar does not involve the painful process of chasing scarce allocations, it does allow for the fun of figuring out what exactly makes good, cellar-worthy values....
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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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VIDEO: Breaking Down the Last 10 Bordeaux Vintages
By JR Thomason
For some time now, we've had a goal of shooting videos to educate and entertain wine enthusiasts near and far. Though we are now out of January, the month when...
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Decanting Red Burgundy
By Jeff Patten
Decanting red Burgundy is a hot button topic. People get really worked up about it. Some dogmatically prohibit this practice - ever. The most important thing is to put the...
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