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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Wine Wanderings: A Visit with Thierry Allemand
By Jeff Patten
This visit was definitely a highlight on a recent trip to France. To get to Thierry's, we made the short walk -- perhaps 30 paces -- from the winery of...
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Dispatch: Arrival in Piemonte
By flatironwines Admin
So, after resting and recuperating for a few days in Morgon, it was time to head south to where my love affair with wine really began: Piemonte.
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Muscadet: as at home with the yardbird as with the oyster
By flatironwines Admin
Let’s talk about fried chicken. It is a perfect food (when made correctly, of course): the tender, moist interior and the crunchy, salty, skin do that magic contrast act that...
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Cru Beaujolais: Focus on Moulin-a-Vent
By Jeff Patten
I am starting our Cru Beaujolais series with Moulin-à-Vent because of the soils that lie beneath the vines. Thanks to those soils, Moulin-à-Vent can produce a wine that many Beaujolais-lovers consider to...
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Wine Wanderings: Beaujolais
By Jeff Patten
Beaujolais is a great place to travel when you're with the team from Kermit Lynch. No U.S. importer has done more to promote the wines of Beaujolais than Kermit Lynch....
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Wine Wanderings: Another Visit with Pierre Breton
By Jeff Patten
From Joguet we drove directly to Pierre Breton. We had hung out at Pierre’s place only a few months earlier and it was good to see him again. On this...
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Wine Wanderings: Visit to Joguet
By Jeff Patten
Charles Joguet is the domaine that put Chinon on the map. Joguet liked Burgundy, especially how each itty bitty plot of land seemed to make distinct wine from its specific terroir. ...
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Madeira: A Wine Lover's Guilty Pleasure
By Jeff Patten
If you've ever gotten a little tired of wine as it is, you should feel guilty. The wines of the world are as different and changing as the light of...
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Wine Wanderings: Loire Valley Day 3 (Continued) (Again)
By Jeff Patten
It was a great appointment with Philippe Foreau – 90 minutes longer than he had slotted us in for – and so we were late to an embarrassing degree for...
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Wine Wanderings: Loire Valley Day 3 (Continued)
By Jeff Patten
After Huet we just had time to squeeze in lunch at la Geule Noire, a nice farm-to-table in a cave carved out of tuffeau stone where the chef attempts to...
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Wine Wanderings: Loire Valley Day 3
By Jeff Patten
Day 3 would turn out to be our longest day, and the five hours of sleep after numerous bottles of wine was not ideal preparation. Still, we managed to pile...
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Wine Wanderings: Loire Valley Day 2 (Continued)
By Jeff Patten
We drove straight from Marc Deschamp’s domaine in Pouilly-sur-Loire to Domaine Thomas Labaille in Chavignol. Chavignol is in the Sancerre appellation, on a hill across the valley to the west...
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Wine Wanderings: Loire Valley Day 1
By Jeff Patten
(Josh and Jeff spent a few days in the Loire Valley checking out wine this September. This is the first of a series of posts telling the story.) The drive...
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