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 ]