Sierra Cantabria Primeurs 2020 Rioja and Toro   Buying "en primeurs" is always a good thing! It is a tremendous way to source some of your favorite wines, at the best best price. In some cases with Sierra Cantabria's wines,

Virtual tasting with Lopez Cristobal   Quite amazing how the wine industry is evolving nowadays, now we are having special and exclusive wine tasting with connoisseurs from all around the globe without leaving our cozy home! A complete new way

Old Wines : Rioja and Bordeaux   Recently, we purchased a pristine cellar from a private client. First of all and most importantly, we were highly impressed by the superb quality of the wines. most of them were bought young

Food and wine matching : Oysters   Oysters, especially raw, are usually consumed simply with a dash of lemon. Some villages have gained gastronomic fame for the quality of their oysters and Cambados in Galicia is one of them. Obviously,

New references and new vintages!   Bertrand and I, have been truly busy lately! It is not an easy job, is it? We had to sample wines from different places, styles and grape varieties. Most of the time, we tried

Handcrafted Champagne : Maison Henriot   Recently, Champagne Henriot has been particularly covered by the specialized press. In February 2020 a highly talented new cellar Master has started a new path : Alice Tetienne. She is highly graduated and has

Wines From Rias baixas   Celtic country ubicated just in north-west Spain, Galicia is, actually, clearly one of the most dynamic wine producing region of Spain. So far, you will find 5 DO (denominación de Origen) that works principally with

Jean Claude Berrouet, 44 years in Château Pétrus   Last year, I acquired  a few books and 2 of them mentioned Jean Claude Berrouet and his "faith" in terroir. The first one is the "Wine Bible" by Karen Mcneil, which