Every year Food and Wine Magazine honors a handful of the country’s most standout wine professionals, naming them Sommeliers of the Year. This year, our very own Director of Wholesale Accounts, Andrey Ivanov, was given the #3 spot, a truly high honor.
We’ve been asked by customers in the past “How do you know that your winemakers follow the natural, organic, and minimalist practice and philosophy that they say they do?”
I need to tell you about the TV show that resulted in our booking a trip to Chile and Argentina within weeks of seeing it.
Of all the crazy, wonderful people we met in Italy, the craziest, most eccentric of all came to visit us in San Francisco two weeks ago.
The Languedoc-Roussillon is France’s most up-and-coming wine region. It is historically known for poor quality, mass-produced wine. So why would we bother visiting? Because land is cheap and talented new winemakers are setting up shop here and starting to change the scene. We haven’t yet bought and imported wine from this region, but we have explored much of the area and there are a few wineries we’re keeping a close eye on. During our visit we found one amazing winemaker who really stood out among the rest. Check out the amazing Arés Blanc and Six Rats Noir (pronounce it with a French accent, and it becomes very funny name) that we’re bringing in from Domaine Le Conte Des Floris.
So, which regions did we actually explore to taste all that wine? In this video I’ll take you to the regions in Portugal and Spain where we found our first wines.
A little rain won’t stop us from finding great wine. In fact, a lot of rain and getting stuck in the mud won’t stop us either.
Italy is bigger than it looks on a map. Fortunately, we have 5 weeks and a rental car. In this video we go over the 6 or 7 wine regions we’ll be visiting.
It’s Carnuntum, Austria! An area known for deep, red wines near the Hungarian boarder.
If you are a wine geek you may already know a lot about Austrian wine. Here we give an overview of the different regions we visited and what to expect from the wines there.
Click to listen to 6 solid minutes about some new types of wine start-ups. If you want to start your own business related to wine… I even have a few ideas for you.
– wine club
– apps
– private label wine
– wine gadgets (my recent fav: www.dripteez.com)
ROCK ON
Alleah
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