Charming Provence. Between olive groves and pine forests the rocky landscape is wild with the fragrant garrigue that marks its wines. This picturesque southern French region on the Côte d’Azur is famous for its rosé, but with a little bit…
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Posted on 2021.03.03 in France, Wine-Aid Packages, Provence  | Read more...
We are pleased to offer a selection of wines that represent a marriage of grapes and ground that the French regard as mystical. It’s in the sandy clay soils over granite of Beaujolais that the Gamay grape finds its truest…
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Posted on 2021.02.24 in France, Beaujolais, Wine-Aid Packages  | Read more...
Châteauneuf-du-Pape is quite often the gateway region that introduces curious wine drinkers to the essence of terroir. An almost perfect union of soils, climate, and grape varieties combine to create one of the world’s great red wines that tends to…
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Posted on 2021.02.17 in France, Wine-Aid Packages, Southern Rhone  | Read more...
The northwestern Spanish wine production zone of Ribeiro is undergoing a renaissance. One of the vanguard producers of this movement is the Bodega of Coto de Gomariz located in the Avia valley in the autonomous community of…
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Posted on 2021.02.10 in Spain DO, Wine-Aid Packages, Ribeiro  | Read more...
A grape variety born in Bordeaux, Merlot often gets a bad rap due to the glut of simple, fruity wines that bear its name lined up on party store shelves. But when the soils and climate are ideal, and production…
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Posted on 2021.02.03 in France, Bordeaux, Wine-Aid Packages  | Read more...
Elisabetta Foradori took over her family’s estate in 1984 at the tender age of 20 after her father’s sudden death. Since then, she has made elevating the native Teroldego grape — an ancient variety that thrives in…
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Posted on 2021.01.27 in Wine-Aid Packages, Italy, Trentino Alto Adige  | Read more...
The Rhône River stretches from the Alps to the Mediterranean through an incredibly diverse expanse. At its southern end, between the cities of Vienne and Avignon, rolling hills meet plateaus of varying elevation under the toasty Mediterranean sun. Long, warm…
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Posted on 2021.01.20 in France, Wine-Aid Packages, Southern Rhone  | Read more...
One of the most exciting producers in Rioja right now, we’ve always adored the wines from brothers Arturo and Kike de Miguel Blanco, third generation viticulturalists that produce wine for Artuke Bodegas y Viñedos. It seems that each new vintage highlights…
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Posted on 2021.01.13 in Wine-Aid Packages, Rioja DOC  | Read more...
Castelrotto is a small hamlet on the hill of San Pietro in Cariano, one of the five towns that constitute Valpolicella, the historical Amarone producing area. It is where Carlo Venturini and his wife Alessandra Zantedeschi, both from winegrowing families,…
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Posted on 2021.01.06 in Wine-Aid Packages, Italy, Veneto  | Read more...
Not merely leftovers, Second Wines have always offered incredible value, but as the selection process for the First Wine or “Grand Vin” of these distinguished estates has gotten ever stricter, limiting supply and raising the price, today the best Second…
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Posted on 2020.12.16 in France, Bordeaux, Wine-Aid Packages  | Read more...