Wine Club Features

Featured Premier Club Wines: 2019 CRAVEN WINES | CABERNET SAUVIGNON | STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA The King! A variety Mick and Jeanine never thought they would entertain making until a lovely little site on the Karibib Vineyard was made apparent. The vineyard sits at 1,000 feet in elevation in the western part of Stellenbosch. The southeasterly wind coming off of False...

Featured Explorer Club Wines: The weathered landscape of South Africa is the result of millions of years of battering storms. Storms that stirred in the waters off of the 'Cape of Good Hope." That name is recent as historically it was known as the 'Cabo das Tormentas', or 'Cape of Storms.' In 1488 Bartolomeu Dias made the first modern rounding...

Featured Premier Club Wines: 2020 PALA I FIORE SARDINIA VERMENTINO 91 points James Suckling: "Cooked apples, spices, jasmine and loquat are all on offer on the nose. Medium to full body, juicy acidity and an oily finish with tangy acidity to match. Drink now" Notes of spring flowers and a hint of spice on the nose. Medium-bodied with accents of...

Featured Wines: 2019 LES EQUILIBRISTES "HIRSUTE" BERGERAC BLANC "It is a wine that highlights Sémillon, an emblematic grape of the South West region and very little used in other appellations. It is often associated with Sauvignon for the most part in the blend to produce wines that are often good but "without surprises". We also wanted to highlight this variety...

Harvest Club - December 2021 It's that time of year again!! And its also that time for more new and interesting wines from some of the best natural and holistic wine makers in the world! This month we meet a unique winemaker from Bairrada, Portugal, Maria Pato of João Pato aka Duckman. She makes such fun, fresh, and fabulously funky...

The November 2021 Premier Club brings us from the mountains to the sea! Alto-Adige to Tuscany! Featured Premier Club Wines: 2020 TERLANO ALTO ADIGE PINOT BIANCO 92 points James Suckling: "A very striking pinot bianco that combines concentration and elegance with stony minerality. Hints of exotic fruit, flowers and spices make this a fascinating expression of this still underrated grape...

The November 2021 Explorer Club takes us from our sunny backyard here in California, to the rolling hills of Beaujolais! Featured Wines: 2020 FOLK MACHINE "WHITE LIGHT" CALIFORNIA WHITE BLEND "The 6th vintage of White Light continues to be fun, easy drinking, summery, and affordable. Our goals have stayed the same - bottle something fresh with acid and some mineral...

Harvest Club - November 2021 November’s Harvest Club is all about the cool-climate coastal vineyards of California, and the relatively unknown yet magnificent winegrowing regions of the Czech Republic! Bur first, let’s hit the beach! Tyler and Rachel Eck’s Dunites Wine Co. love to harvest from incredible sights along the central coast. Namely the Spanish Springs and Bassi Vineyards, both...

Harvest Club - October 2021 Happy Harvest everyone! This is the time of year when all those hardworking vineyard workers, cellar hands, cellar masters, winemakers, vineyard managers, and interns put it into overdrive and overtime to bring in all that glorious fruit to be processed, cold-soaked, pressed, and into tank for the magnificent and magical transition from being grape juice...

The October 2021 Premier Club places us at the convergence of two rivers, The Loire and Cher, within Montlouis-Sur-Loire. A region dedicated to Chenin Blanc. And then we travel halfway around the world to enjoy another Loire Valley varietal, Gamay Noir. Only this time within the high elevation Sierra Foothills region of El Dorado. Featured Premier Club Wines: 2019 TAILLE...