Port is the most abused category in the US market. It’s treated like a closet find rather than a living wine program. Every bar that keeps a dusty bottle of Tawny behind the speed rack is leaving money on the table. This is one of the …
Read More →The orange wine category is built on Slovenian tradition that never stopped. The trend is just finally catching up. What’s interesting for distributors and importers is that the natural wine crowd already created the demand pathway — and the …
Read More →Ask a bar owner about Portuguese wine beyond Port and the answer is usually: “Is that the green wine?” Yes. And also no. Portugal has 250-plus indigenous grape varieties — more per square mile than anywhere else in Europe — and the US …
Read More →The big distributors aren’t in Bulgaria yet. That’s the window. When a Saint-Émilion Grand Cru proprietor shows up to plant in the Thracian Valley, he’s seeing something the US market hasn’t priced in. That window closes. …
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