Champagne Billecart-Salmon is always one of our favorite makers of astounding bubbly. Year after year their creations wet our lips and their newest release, Billecart-Salmon 2008 Louis Salmon Brut Blanc de Blancs is no exception. Named after the House’s very first chief winemaker, this 100% Chardonnay Grands Crus champagne takes …

David Frost is a world class golfer who grew up in a winemaking family in South Africa and now he makes wine to boot at David Frost Wine in South Africa. When you were a kid, do you remember plucking a blade of bright green grass, and absent-mindedly chewing on …

This wine is a combination of ancient land and modern technology. It’s from the more upscale line of wines called Vinea Domini, a division of the Gotto d’Oro wine cooperative in the province of Lazio. This is near Rome, in the center of Italy, a region where wines have been …

Coffee and wine have much in common. Their aroma, flavors, and level of intensity—mellow to strong—draw people to pour a cup or glass. Finding pleasure in both coffee and winemaking influenced Scott Burr to launch his 100% Kona-grown Carta Coffee Merchants. Burr grew up with his hands purpled from sorting grapes …

Penelope Bourbon is one of our favorite bourbon producers, crafting small batch, beautifully elegant expressions year after year. Their newest masterpiece is Architect, a blended straight whiskey coming in at 104 proof, non-chill filtered with their signature four grain mash bill paired with two styles of French oak staves provided …

This wine turned out to be a great choice to crack open on a Monday: relaxing and energizing at the same time. And it’s a screw cap, to further simplify life. La Crema Winery has been around for over 40 years, so they know what wine consumers are looking for. …

It’s a little known fact that if you are so inclined, and you have the right connections in whiskey country, and you just happen to be a UFC legend named Dustin Poirier, you might be allowed to taste through some barrels and bottle your own whiskey.  Rare Stash is the …

This is the time of year to go full-on Italian for lunch or dinner: a glass of this white wine with the first asparagus of the season, cooked till barely crunchy, dribbled with local extra virgin olive oil and sprinkled with a fine layer of chopped, hard-boiled eggs. Served outside …

If you’ve never heard of Geodesy wines, the most important thing you need to know is that the company was founded with a purpose: to support young women in agriculture.  After having established and run an award-winning sparkling wine company — J Vineyards & Winery — for 30 years, Judy …

‘Tis the season for a daily celebration of wines from famed viticultural regions around the world as you countdown to Christmas Eve. We’ve done the hard work for you, and assembled a definitive list of the best and brightest wine Advent calendars that will make each day a festive joy. …

Winery – Chateau Musar  Wine – Gaston Hochar Red  Vintage – 2000 Varietal – CS/Cinsault/Carignan Approx 1/3rd each.  Score – 95/100 Price – GBP £29.99 USD $44.04 This is a world class wine, showing perfectly and smack bang in the middle of it’s drinking window. Offering genuinely good value for …

Though not as widely known, Champagne Deutz stands shoulder-to-shoulder with well-known Champagne houses in terms of quality and tradition. Founded in 1838, Deutz has been a key producer in Aÿ, France ever since. Their NV brut is a blend of all three major Champagne grapes (38% Pinot Noir, 32% Pinot …

The Tara Atacama collection by Ventisquero is inspired by the mystery and silence of the Atacama Desert—the driest in the world and provides a unique challenge for winemakers. Those challenges are taken head-on resulting in Tara, a line of extreme wines as complex as the landscape in which they originate. …