Trip to Burgundy for the Hospices de Beaune auction
By John Truax
I spent a week in Beaune tasting across top domaines and the Hospices de Beaune, getting an in-depth look at the challenging but promising 2024 and 2025 vintages. Despite heavy...
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How to Choose Your Party Bottles!
By All About Self Employment Collaborator
Whether you're trying to please a crowd of 50 co-workers, impress a new friend, or show your appreciation to a gracious host, buying wines for a party can be tricky!...
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Flatiron's Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide
By All About Self Employment Collaborator
Welcome to our Holiday 2019 Gift Guide! Our goal is to alleviate some of the stress that holiday wine gifts can bring. Hopefully you can have some fun while choosing the...
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Flatiron's Guide to Cote Rotie
By Jeff Patten
Allen Meadows, more familiarly known as Burghound, was once asked what wines he likes to drink most from outside of Burgundy. His answer was Cote Rotie. No other region can produce wines...
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Flatiron-Wines.com, New and Improved!
By All About Self Employment Collaborator
This is Flatiron-wines.com... new and improved! We're insanely jazzed about our new website. Find out about what's changing – and what's not! – here.
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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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Comando G: Magic in Sierra de Gredos
By Joshua Cohen
Fernando Garcia and Daniel Gómez Jiménez-Landi have one weird trick for winemaking success in the Gredos: they hang out in the local taverns and drink beer with the village old-timers....
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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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Trousseau + Cali Limestone + Raj Parr = Magic
By All About Self Employment Collaborator
There are many great things about California! But, for wine nerds, there is one glaring imperfection which lies in California's soils: there isn’t enough limestone! Europe, by contrast, enjoys a high concentration of limestone, one...
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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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Flatiron’s Rose FAQs: our simple guide to the best pink wines
By Joshua Cohen
What gives rosé wines their pink color? Rosé is usually made with red-wine grapes, which have pigment in their skins. All the color in rosé wines come from the skins of...
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2018 First Taste from Willi Schaefer
By Joshua Cohen
We just got word that Willi Schaefer's 2018 Graacher Himmelreich Kabinett is available. This isn't the kind of wine we usually get to offer by email--it is, as Terry says, allocated...
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Grapes in Champagne
By Andrew Chen
Champagne is often regarded as the most iconic sparkling wine region in the world, so much in fact, that it is often used interchangeably to mean all sparkling wine. This...
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Wine Q&A: Syrah, top to bottom
By Jeff Patten
Syrah is one of the greatest grape varieties that produces wine. Here are all your questions about the grape answered.
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