Eric Asimov Top 10 Muscadets In this week's The Pour, Eric Asimov dives into one of my favorite topics: Muscadet. I couldn't be happier. Spoiler Alert: They are underrated and of great value. But seriously...they really are. It's kind of a joke in the wine world as to just how good a Muscadet can be...
New Wines from Washington I have been meaning to do a newsletter on this for a while. I adore the wines from Washington State and the producers below represent a majority of the better ones coming out of there. For the price, these destroy comparably priced ones from California any...
The Soul of Burgundy in the Heart of America: Found Nowhere Else in the Country Around a year ago we had an incredibly successful newsletter on 2014 Black Kite Pinot. Now we are onto the 2015 vintage and as you will see, it has received some great hype. Here's the...
This father-son duo not only has great hair (and resemble the Melvins Buzz Osborne more than Burgundy growers) but their wines are getting better and better each year. It's been an incredible journey to watch these guys go from obscurity when I first got into the business, to see them now...
Hyperbole aside, this style of Riesling is my favorite nowadays. There is something really magical here; where all of the poetic ramblings, wax on wax off, that we continuously hear about, finally come together to make sense. Where the sweetness is there, but at just the right level where the pure...
