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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Custom Cases: Made Just for You
By Maggie Scudder
There is no extra fee or charge for consultation, no lengthy quizzes or interrogations of your taste. In fact, buying a case of wine this way is probably the easiest approach...
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Arnot Roberts Proves Rosé Season Is Here!
By Joshua Cohen
It has become an annual tradition in our stores to start off the year’s rosés with Arnot Roberts. Crisp watermelon, salty breezes and sun-warmed strawberries dominate the flavor profile here; although this wine...
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The Ultimate Guide to Sancerre, Part 3: Kimmeridgian Limestone
By Joshua Cohen
Perhaps no other soil holds as much appeal to terroir-focused wine drinkers as Kimmeridgian limestone. It's a key ingredient in all the Grands Crus of Chablis and many of the...
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Our Top 5 Newsletter Stories: 2019, In Review
By Jeff Patten
What follows is a list of our TOP FIVE wine stories from 2019! While these wines may no longer be available, we think the information is interesting enough that we wanted...
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Our Complete Guide to Madeira: Bottled History
By Maggie Scudder
Madeira is a wine of history, made by mistake and crafted by circumstance. With the ability to last for hundreds of years, sometimes it is, quite literally, bottled history. It’s a...
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The Ultimate Guide to Sancerre, Part Two: Silex
By Maggie Scudder
To get a better look at the terrors of Sancerre, there's no better place to start than the flinty soils (aka "silex") on the eastern edges of Sancerre. This Q&A should give...
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Ultimate Guide to the Terroir of Sancerre, Part One
By Maggie Scudder
Over the last several decades, the name Sancerre has become synonymous with premium dry white wine, making it the safe choice for consumers with no other requirements. As such, it's become...
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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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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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Featured Wines on Both Coasts!
By Maggie Scudder
we've started a very exciting blog series! On each of our local blogs, we are featuring an extended version of our favorite newsletter story every Thursday. We're truly thrilled to...
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Kickass 2020 Super Bowl Pairings!
By Maggie Scudder
Classic Super Bowl spreads are the greatest hits of American comfort and fast food. It’s Thanksgiving for snacks: pizza, chicken wings, nachos, chili dogs and pretzels. With all that in...
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Complete Guide to the Northern Rhone Wine Region
By Jeff Patten
How to use this guide: 1. Read the previews of each blog post. 2. Click the title links to read the entire post. 3. Become an expert in the Northern...
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The Ultimate Guide to Cornas
By Jeff Patten
For years, Cornas was just another “value” village of the Northern Rhone, with a reputation more like St. Joseph, say, than Cote Rotie or Hermitage. It was deemed “rustic” and...
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