White Skouras, Assyrtiko, Wild Ferment, Pelopennese, 2021: $20 Assyrtiko is a grape variety that does very nicely in a hot, dry climate like most of Greece where it is indigenous. Despite the protracted heat that produces more sugar in the berries and therefore higher alcohol when fermented, the wine remains fresh and crisp because of…
Stolpman La Caudrilla California $20, organic 75% Syrah, 15% Grenache, 10% Sangiovese We were introduced to the Stolpman wines late last summer and have become Stolpman groupies. The two that the team tried received uniform accolades of "yum." Stolpman Vineyards is located on a limestone outcropping in the Ballard Canyon AVA of Santa Barbara County,…
Nonfiction Kermit Lynch, Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France. Join Kermit Lynch, one of the U.S.'s most respected wine importers, as he visits his French producers and brings their personalities (and his) into the wines. M.K.L. Fisher wrote that it is "one of the pleasantest and truest books about wine…
We have made it to the end of the year’s longest month—January. We always feel a bit relieved when we survive it. I shared the above New Yorker cover a couple of years ago in a Windham Wines January newsletter; it still resonates for us. February-- a nice short month during which days become perceptibly…
