Rhône – Children's Atlas of Wine

‘Over the Mountain’

An Alpine sip n’ paint at PdV on Sunday, 3/16

Welcome to the wine info page for CLUB shipment #1: the RHÔNE river — now open to the public! the RHÔNE riverThe Rhône is most famous for wind-buffeted, single-stake syrah clinging to the steep slopes of a valley carved through a granite plateau — or for magisterial, sun-soaked red blends from the soupstone-strewn vines surroundingContinue reading “THE CLUB #1 – the RHÔNE river”

It’s a wine club!

Four times a year, we’ll assemble a set of bottles and artwork that celebrates unsung varieties and histories, maps the regions and communities growing wine’s future, and puts them in context. Sign up for the winter shipment here. What’s in the box? Our holiday shipment maps #3 TIME TRAVEL More information here. Previous club shipments #2Continue reading “It’s a wine club!”

Map Print: the Rhône river

A map of the Rhône from its source in the Alps to its end in the Mediterranean, very much not to scale.

Class Recap: “Biodynamic, Permaculture, Fukuoka!”

Our ability to make natural wine depends on the soils we farm. If we’re talking about minimal intervention, it starts with the interventions we make as farmers first. This can start with what we aren’t doing in the vineyard: spraying synthetic pesticides, applying herbicide or chemical fertilizer — the minimum for organic viticulture. But it’sContinue reading “Class Recap: “Biodynamic, Permaculture, Fukuoka!””