Download this August Newsletter Segment Fletcher Langhe Nebbiolo duo & 2023 Barbarescos After representing Dave Fletcher in California and a couple other markets since the 2016 vintage, now we’re proud to represent him throughout the entire United States market. Though the wines have been available in New York for several years, our representation there begins this month. Who would’ve thought...[ read more ]
The extinct volcano Monte Vulture, whose eruptions shaped the soils of northern Basilicata Download this August Newsletter Segment Madonna delle Grazie Aglianico del Vulture Crus and Aglianico bianco I will relentlessly contend that Aglianico is one of the world’s most undervalued red grapes, one of its most unexpectedly versatile, and perhaps one of its most misunderstood. Madonna delle Grazie’s range...[ read more ]
Mâconnais’ famous Roche de Vergisson in the background and Roche de Solutré in the foreground Download this August Newsletter Segment We have a lot of newly arrived wines this month, and we’re going to highlight a few of them throughout the month instead of our typical single-issue monthly newsletter format. Last week we shared a deep dive on Katharina Wechsler’s...[ read more ]
Download this August Newsletter Segment Katharina Wechsler | Rheinhessen 2023 Dry Riesling Crus Delayed by general disruptions and tariff-stalled markets over the last year, the 2023 vintage of Katharina Wechsler’s dry Rieslings crus was well worth the wait. While 2021 seemed like effortless fine wine, sleek, precise, tensile and mineral for days, and 2022 exceeded every expectation for a warm...[ read more ]
(Download complete pdf here) Jean Collet 2023 Chablis 1er & Grand Crus Labels Domaine Jean Collet et Fils hasn’t changed their US labels for about fifty years. When I presented the “new labels” used in the French market as a possible switch in the US, our team responded positively, and some others thought customers might think of the vintage-style rebranding...[ read more ]
Gneiss (Download complete pdf here) 2023 Tegernseerhof Smaragd Crus Wachau, Austria Written By Ted Vance Pregame Provocation The last decades have challenged the wine industry’s most durable vintage theories. With improvements in vineyard and cellar craft, a deeper understanding of viticulture, and increasingly sophisticated weather forecasting, the idea that “great” wines are primarily vintage dependent is, at least in my...[ read more ]
Download July 2026 Newsletter Franck Bimont Le Puy-Notre-Dame Written by Ted Vance Le Puy-Notre-Dame gives me the same feeling I had on my first visit to Brézé in 2010. Its soft vineyard slopes, quiet roads, modest rises in elevation, and fields stretching into the distance without being broken up by cliffside walls or rocks protruding from steep hillsides, as in...[ read more ]
Download New Arrival June 2026 | Hajszan Neumann Hajszan Neumann Wien, Austria Available from The Source in all U.S. states, except Oregon. No A.I.-Generated content With the rise of organic and biodynamic viticulture over the last half century and their becoming commonplace throughout the world in wine-focused restaurants and wine shops, the forever controversial natural wine movement was as inevitable...[ read more ]
Download New Arrival June 2026 | Pedro Méndez Pedro Méndez Val do Salnés, Rías BAixas Available from The Source in all U.S. states No A.I.-Generated content Who would’ve thought that we once again have to open bottles of top Burgundy to sell them, while two growers in Spain’s Rías Baixas Salnés Valley no longer need their top wines sampled to...[ read more ]
Download May 2026 Newsletter White Knuckling 'till June The 2026 growing season started early this year in much of Europe. For growers, this is always exciting: the birth of a new chapter in the history books and their life as vignerons—a time of unknown potential. But these days, especially over the last fifteen years or so, anxiety often rises to...[ read more ]
Download April 2026 | Brandini 2021 Barolo Cru This month, Giovanna Bagnasco (who goes by Gio) from Agricola Brandini will be showcasing their 2021 Barolo single crus in the US. As mentioned in this year’s February newsletter, we’ve waited for this vintage since we started our collaboration at the beginning of 2022. The sisters already nailed the 2019 and 2020...[ read more ]
Download Newsletter April 2026 Château de Quintigny, Jura Going to The Sun Some summers when I was in high school, I worked in Glacier National Park. Cleaning and trimming the greenery on the famous Going-to-the-Sun Road wasn't glamorous. But it beat running the newspaper route I started at twelve, working year-round through the heat of summer and the deep freeze...[ read more ]
Newsletter February 2026 The Source was always about dreams. I grew up in northwest Montana—not exactly a wine mecca—and I didn’t touch alcohol until I was nineteen. It was a Guinness, illegally poured for me in a restaurant with fellow waiters from work. I’d just moved to Arizona and interviewed well enough for a job waiting tables that I wasn’t...[ read more ]
Newsletter February 2026 Concrete vat in the cellar of Domaine Mont de Marie There’s too much to talk about in February to consolidate into a single newsletter. The second part will be an early stand-in for March’s Newsletter and will be published next week on Friday, February 13th—scary … In the second part, I will reintroduce two new players on...[ read more ]
Newsletter January 2026 Pruning in Les Damodes, December 2025 Here I am once again with a kind of perverse optimism at the start of a new year, even as things feel dire—especially when the feeds read like Mad Magazine comic strips playing out in real-life U.S. governance. I must be one of the most optimistic U.S. wine importers going into...[ read more ]
