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Keeping it local. Love it. Honestly, why the heck would you plant ‘new’ grapes on Sardinia when you have terrific indigenous grapes that have a 700+ year history on the island?

No one can foresee at this point what touchstone events like the Super Bowl, Oscars, World Series, Grammies, etc. will look like down the road. But fortunately for us, the ‘Schiopetto show’ is right on schedule, and what a performance they turned in again. As we have stated in past offerings, we have been fans of Schiopetto for a

There are few estates in the world that rival Chateau Ausone. In my many years traveling to Bordeaux and specifically Saint Emilion, one visit I always look forward to is visiting the perfectionist Alain and his daughter Pauline Vauthier at their spectacular estate overlooking the Dordogne Valley.

The La Follette Chardonnay Lorenzo Vineyard Russian River Valley 2017 comes from one of the most historic Chardonnay vineyards in the Russian River Valley.

Well this is something. We’ve harped on you guys in the past about paying special attention to the not-so-little wines from top houses. Whether it’s Carruades de Lafite from Chateau Lafite, the Bourgogne Blanc from Guy Roulot, the Jefferson Cuvee from Cristom and so on, its common knowledge that the world’s top producers know of only ONE way to make

The winery of Il Molino di Grace – the ‘windmill of grace’ – stands upon 100+ acres of vineyards that have been producing traditional Chianti Classico wines for over 350 years…that’s a mighty long time.

First off, we’d like to announce something rather unusual in the current wine market. As far as we can tell, this striking deal had nothing to do with COVID19. Oh, sure, maybe that was the final catalyst for the company to ‘pull the trigger’. But the beginnings of this deal can arguably be traced to an offer

We had a great run with this wine just a few months back, resulting in a VERY quick sell-out! Fortunately we recently found another small cache of this value star from the winemaking team at Beausejour Duffau, Pavie Macquin and Larcis Ducasse and now we get to share ti with you again (at least for today, we anticipate another

Sometimes we just have to get out of the way and let the pundits speak. In this case it involves, as Wine Advocate’s Monica Larner pointed out, one of the most impressive newcomers to the Italian wine scene that we can recall. This wine literally bowled us over in our recent tastings.

Brion Wise has done a lot of things in his life thus far. Born in eastern Washington, Brion grew up on a farm where he learned about hard work, got a chemical engineering degree from Washington State (go Cougs) and, after working for Shell Oil, founded his own oil company at 26. It became an international business.