Vine Farmer Importer Series Day 3: Two Stunning New Wines from Cantina Annesanti Welcome to Day 3 of our Importer Series from Jace and Kaden at Vine Farmer; a hand-picked look at the growers, winemakers, and bottles that continue to...
Vine Farmer Day 2: Barbera with No Makeup On As part of our five-day importer focus on Vine Farmer, today we’re featuring a wine that perfectly captures what makes jace’s imports intriguing: There is no makeup on this wine. The...
Vine Farmer Day: Schiava from Alto Adige. Sort of Jace and his brother Kaden have received a few importer features with us over the past two years or so, and rightly so. Jace began his wine career, so to speak,...
Day Five:Ideal Wine & Spirits–Alpine Pinot Grigio I’m excited to share one of my absolute favorites from the Ideal Wine & Spirits portfolio—the 2024 Colterenzio Sudtirol – Alto Adige Pinot Grigio “Puiten.” I saved this for last on purpose. Founded...
Ideal Wine & Spirits Day 4: Mont Olivet Lirac As part of our ongoing importer focus, I’m excited to highlight a personal love brought to us by Ideal Wine & Spirits, which perfectly captures why I’ve always been in love...
Ideal Wine & Spirits Day 3: Guidobono Nebbiolo This is a winery that consistently punches above its weight; the 2022 Guidobono Nebbiolo d’Alba “Loreto”. This is one of those wineries that never seems to miss. Vintage after vintage, it shows...
Ideal Wine & Spirits Day 2: Montenidoli Rosato As part of day two of Ideal Wine & Spirits’ featured selections, I wanted to highlight a bottle that’s a little off the beaten path: the 2025 Montenidoli Toscana Rosato of Canaiolo...
Ideal Wine & Spirits Day 1: Cuvelier los Andes I’d like to introduce you to Ideal Wine & Spirits. Founded in 1905, their story takes a quiet turn during Prohibition, but no one seems willing to say exactly what happened....
Vineyard Road Day 5: Hoppenot Fleurie Grégoire Hoppenot is not a newcomer guessing his way through great vineyards. Before founding his domaine, he spent two years managing vineyards for Maison Trénel, the Beaujolais house owned by M. Chapoutier. That experience...
Vineyard Road Day 4: Antidoto Ribera del Duero This remarkable wine comes to us via Vineyard Road, and it represents a new chapter in one of Spain’s most celebrated regions. While Ribera del Duero has earned its reputation over the...
Vineyard Road Day 3: Viña Zorzal Garnacha Tinto e Blanco I’m excited to bring back a pair of wines that have quickly become staples in my life, now offered for the third vintage in a row: the 2024 Viña Zorzal...
Vineyard Road Day 2: White Pinot Nero by Cavallotto Produced in extremely limited quantities, just around 900 cases annually, this wine is a genuine labor of love. In a vineyard where every prime row could be devoted to Nebbiolo for...
Vineyard Road Day 1-Stolpman Estate Syrah We’re going to shift gears here from traditional importers and highlight Vineyard Road, a unique player in Massachusetts that operates as both an importer and distributor. That direct pipeline from producer to retailer typically...
Wilson Daniels Day 5: A Hungarian Roundup with Royal Tokaji Royal Tokaji was established in 1990 by renowned wine author Hugh Johnson and a group of dedicated wine nerds with a shared mission to revive Hungary’s legendary Tokaji region after...
Wilson Daniels Day 4: Mâcon-Verzé by Leflaive Family owned since 1717 and revered worldwide as one of the greatest white wine estates on earth, Leflaive has long set the benchmark for Chardonnay from Burgundy’s most hallowed vineyards. I know a...
Wilson Daniels Day 3, Elena Walch of Alto Adige Now imported by Wilson Daniels, Elena Walch produces fabulous wines from the Alto Adige. Focusing on historical local varietal, this one is the 2023 Lagrein. Lagrein is one of Europe’s most...
Wilson Daniels Day 2: Volpaia Chianti Classico The 2023 Castello di Volpaia Chianti Classico DOCG, proudly imported by Wilson Daniels, is a great expression of Tuscany’s heritage and precision winemaking at high elevation. Sourced from the heart of the Chianti...
Wilson Daniels Day 1, Champagne Gosset Moving on to week three of importer focuses, I am pleased to introduce Wilson Daniels Luxury Wine Importer. This is a very different story than our last two focuses. Rather than beginning as a...
Kermit Lynch Day 5: Clean, Pure Verdicchio by Colleleva We are going to finish our Kermit Lynch week with a beautiful, every day drinker from the Marche. As with every region in Italy, the Marche is a world all its...
Kermit Lynch on Day Four: A Rare White from Beaujolais Today I’m excited to share something that almost never crosses our path: a Beaujolais Blanc. This isn’t just an example of an oddity, but a remarkable wine as well. The...
Kermit Lynch Day 3–Guy Breton’s Chiroubles Guy Breton, known affectionately as “P’tit Max”, is one of the original members of the famed “Gang of Four,” the group of vignerons who helped restore Beaujolais’ reputation by rejecting industrial shortcuts in favor...
