Wine Matchup for Thanksgiving Feast: A Pack of Ten Picks to Enhance the Food, Reawaken the Appetite and Renew Weary Taste Buds ($279) + Recent Arrival Traversing Burgundy in Six Wines with Domaine Manuel Olivier (6-Bottle Pack $459)

A true masterpiece is composed of many elements, and all the details must be in precise balance: The forearm musculature on Michelangelo’s ‘David’ for example—the intake of breath in the nostril of Sanmartino’s ‘Veiled Christ.’ This is as true for…

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Posted on 2024.11.21 in Fleurie, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Vosne-Romanée, Gevrey-Chambertin, Hautes-Côtes de Nuits, Cidre, France, Wine-Aid Packages, Cava  |  Read more...

Spanish Viticultural Polygamy: Pioneering Producers Explore Galicia’s Wealth of Ancestral Varieties, Transcend Boundaries and Make Transformative Wines.

Given a coloring book, Michelangelo would probably have stayed within the heavy black lines and Picasso would have redrawn all the images and colored them with the blunt end of the crayon. The charm in either approach depends on the…

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Posted on 2024.11.14 in France, Misc Spanish, Wine-Aid Packages, Ribeira Sacra  |  Read more...

Loire Valley Powerhouse in The Making: Vanguard Producers Transform Saumur Wines into Soulfully Complex and Savory Reds and Whites, Expressive of Their Individual Terroir with Innate Freshness. 8-Bottle (5-Red & 3-White) Package $299

One of the most rewarding part of our wine journey at Elie’s is highlighting old names with new faces. Saumur, long a source for easy-drinking wines and uninterested in moving the complexity needle too far, has finally awoken to smell…

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Posted on 2024.11.07 in France, Wine-Aid Packages  |  Read more...

Burgundy’s Rustic Wine Belt New Found Opportunities: Changing Climate Advantages Lesser Known Regions; Ambitious Producers Elevate The Wines To New Heights (Auxey-Duresses, 7-Bottle Pack $479) (Monthélie, 5-Bottle Pack $299) (Saint-Romain, 3-Bottle Pack $169)

Climate change gets a lot of ink in this newsletter, and there’s a reason for it: Consistently elevated temperatures and unpredictably violent weather is having a profound effect on some of the world’s most celebrated wine regions, and the new…

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Posted on 2024.11.01 in Auxey-Duresses, Saint-Romain, Côte de Beaune, Monthélie, France, Burgundy, Wine-Aid Packages  |  Read more...