April '23 Beer of the Month
3 Fonteinen Oude Kriekenlambik This month I was able to get my hands on something pretty special. Finding a traditional Belgian lambic within the beer club budget, especially from the renowned Drie Fonteinen, was a...
February 2023 Italian Wine Club - Tuscany
TOSCANA This month we are continuing our gambol through central Italy with Tuscany. A rough triangle covering 9,000 square miles of “relentlessly undulating” (per Jancis Robinson) countryside, it’s responsible for Pisa’s lean, the Renaissance (via...
Italians Wine Club January 2023: Rome, If You Want To!
LAZIO Happy New Year! We are inaugurating 2023 with a trip to Lazio, located in west-central Italy, and so-named for the original inhabitants of the area, the “Latini.” The Latini language served as the basis...
Champagne Club December '22
Saint Chamant & Coquillette Now that we’re smack in the middle of celebration season, I find myself wondering, with every toast: Why Champagne? Besides being delicious, what accounts for its specific mystique, its literal elevated...
October '22 Champagne Club
Domaine Lancelot-Royer In August we focused on the contribution of Pinot grapes - Noir and Munier - to the greatness that is Champagne. For October, we are celebrating the the other major player on the...
Italian Wine Club October '22: Valle D'Aosta
Valle D’Aosta Tiny, alpine, and semi-autonomous, the Valle d’Aosta is Italy's smallest and least populous region. A speck squeezed into the country’s northwestern corner, it is dwarfed on all sides by more imposing neighbors. Piedmont,...