August Rosé of the Month Club
It’s August, the month where Parisians traditionally hand over the city to the tourists and aller a la plage. We spent July in Provence, which was nice, but it tends to get a bit hot...
August 2023 Wine of the Month Club
TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE/SUDTIROL This month we’re taking it to the top, visiting Italy’s northernmost alpine region and leading source of stunning Dolomite peaks, subsequent green valleys, and befuddling nomenclature. Even the above mouthful is an abbreviation,...
August '23 Champagne Club: Pinot Meunier
We Just Say Meunier As you likely already know, three grapes, the so-called ‘noble trinity’, constitute the source material for 99.7ish% of all the Champagne in the world. The first two, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir,...
'23 July Beer of the Month: Humble Sea
“Humble Sea started as a fiercely underfunded collaboration between 3 childhood friends from the Santa Cruz Mountains. The brewery was bootstrapped on a 1 barrel brewing system on cofounder Nick’s grandmother-in-law’s farm in rural Ben...
July '23 Italian Wine Club: Veneto
VENETO Last month I discovered, by accident and to my great surprise, that in seven years exploring the wine regions of Italy, this club has somehow never made it to Veneto. Which is weird; its...
July 2023 Wine of the Month
In the wine world, sometimes it seems like all roads do, in fact, lead to Rhône. Named for the Rhône river, which flows for 500 miles from the Swiss Alps to the Mediterranean, the Rhône...