A communion with the soil is the most important relationship a winemaker will ever forge, and nowhere is this demonstrated more reliably than in Sancerre, where three distinct soil types produce a split-personality of wine characteristics. This may be something…
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Posted on 2025.06.26 in Petit Chablis, Pouilly-Fumé, Sancerre, Chablis, France, Wine-Aid Packages, Loire  | Read more...
This week’s selection is a trip through sun-kissed, lavender-scented Provence, home to a unique array of southern wines. Though almost exclusively associated with rosé, some of it lackluster, the region is increasingly focusing on quality as the fashion for dry…
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Posted on 2025.06.21 in Bandol, Palette, Les Baux-de-Provence, France, Wine-Aid Packages, Provence  | Read more...
Let the nihilists and conspiracy nuts have their doomsday; Bloomsday will remain our most personally significant wine-related holiday. Named in honor of Leopold Bloom, the protagonist and hero of James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece ‘Ulysses’ that follows Bloom’s existential meander through…
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Posted on 2025.06.14 in Nuits-Saint-Georges, France, Burgundy, Wine-Aid Packages  | Read more...
Although it sounds a bit contradictory, ‘doing what comes naturally’ is often an exacting science and a dedicated quest, and nowhere in Champagne is this more evident than in the fields and cellars of Domaine Fleury, the Côte des Bar…
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Posted on 2025.06.05 in France, Champagne, Wine-Aid Packages  | Read more...