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 →Uruguay has been “the next thing” in wine for twenty years. This time it’s different. When a LEED-certified winery outside North America appears in Maldonado and Tannat starts landing on lists in New York and Tokyo, 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 →“China wine is just bulk.” That take is ten years out of date. When LVMH plants at 2,600 meters in Yunnan and a family estate in Ningxia beats out Bordeaux at Decanter, that’s not a novelty story anymore. That’s a category …
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. …
Read More →The US wine market keeps ignoring South America outside of Malbec and Carmenere. Brazil is about to be the wake-up call nobody saw coming. The big distributors haven’t shown up yet — there’s still a window for buyers and importers paying …
Read More →So for my first weekend here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest city of Portland, Oregon, I decided to take in a little local flavor. As I am establishing contacts and people to interview I decided to play regular tourist. I started out my day …
Read More →They produce some beautiful wines and are now celebrating their 28th harvest. We caught up with Don at the gloriously elegant Bouchon at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas after an amazing meal and wines. Donald was as generous in the pod cast as he was …
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