Super Value Minervois from Languedoc Roussillon

Hello to all my FB and blogger friends (especially those who like wine!) Perhaps you know, but I was in the vinous world for 25 years before O’s platform ushered the shuttering of my wine company. This week, my long-time colleague Cynthia Hurley ~ one of the most famous American-based European wine importers I’ve ever worked [...]

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TODAY’S REBELS OFFERING A DIFFERENT APPROACH

Back in 1994, I joined a small, dedicated French-wine import company that would later change its name from International Gourmet Corp – as we moved away from including olive oils and vinegars in our offers – to European Wine Group. Our focus was bringing to America what we discovered in the artisanal, family-owned and operated [...]

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THE IMPORTER’S WACKY, THE WINE’S WONDERFUL

  Yet another bottle that exemplifies one of my proverbial answers to that almost weekly question posed by friends and family, “Hey Christopher, what ‘cha drinkin’ these days?” I once shared the tale of a full afternoon tasting event that involved several wines from this importer, an afternoon degustation that I can still taste on my palate and [...]

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Louis Dressner Selections – When Traditional Vernacular Just Won’t Cut It

I arrived to work slightly ahead of schedule today, thanks mainly to my precious daughter’s insistence upon awaking long before dawn and alternating her loving parents through a bed-side ritual that had all three of us watching the sun come up.  I’ll admit I do find some odd comfort in these not-too regular routines of [...]

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Windswept 90 Pointer Rounds out the Series

Hello again folks, Part III of this series is actually a dual pronged effort; combining my efforts to hear the voice of “The People” with my desire to recapture for you our travels through the windswept back-roads of France’s deep South.  Our wine today combines the full, rich and exciting flavors so many of you [...]

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“The Incomparable” Part III

Hello again fans of greatness, As I set out today to once again open the gates on another of Peter Weygandt’s staggering vinous treasures, I reflect back over a glass I enjoyed last evening.  It had been a long day for yours truly and the usual drudgery of my 10+ hour day had left me [...]

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GOOD Wine in H-Town @ <$10 Part II

The Series Continues… For those still with us, today marks the latest installment in a multi-part series offering to bring vinous salvation to those in desperate search for the types of wines an honest wine merchant would not only offer for sale, but actually consume in the privacy of his own home.  These are wines [...]

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