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”
Tag Archives: Syrah
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.
Summer Vacation(s): Catalunya
Class recaps for the first half of our Summer Vacation(s) remote class series: Catalunya
Atlas Entry: Northern Rhône
A regional profile of the Northern Rhône
Class Recap: “Syrah & Their Cousins”
The first session of Feb-March’s Grape Study season.
Rebels in Classic Wine Regions, Vol. 2
Class was on Saturday, January 23. These were the wines: How you might see it on a listDirty & Rowdy, “Skin and Concrete Egg Fermented Sémillon”, Yountville, Napa Valley, California Who made it? Hardy Wallace & teamOut of what? Head-trained, dry-farmed sémillon purchased from a 2.4 hectare block planted on alluvial gravels in 1962 in Yount Mill,Continue reading “Rebels in Classic Wine Regions, Vol. 2”
Children's Atlas of Wine 