Iconic Wines - Unbeatable Prices
Iconic Wines - Unbeatable Prices
US collectors have long viewed English sparkling wine with a skeptical eye, and for a good while it was largely due to the price. I remember buying wine for a distributor a decade ago and being offered English sparkling as…
Pleasure and pain emanate from home wine cellars, and the goal of cellaring is to maximize the former and minimize the latter. While oceans of ink have been spilled (or pixels illuminated, perhaps) on the topic of which wines to…
The jury is still out on the 2026 vintage. Whether the widespread wildfires near Bordeaux will affect the quality of the vintage remains to be seen, while record-early harvests are underway across parts of the Northern Hemisphere. But today we’re…
If you’re a longtime reader here at Grand Cru Direct, odds are good that you have your bases covered when it comes to the classics. Pinot, Chard, Cab, Champagne, Nebbiolo, Sangiovese – you likely have a range of vintages and…
“Buy what you like” is all well and good, but it does not a cellarmaster make. Every long-term wine collector has looked up at some point and realized that 10, 25, or even 100 cases they are holding just don’t…
In my 2025 in Review article back in December, I mentioned Côte-Rôtie as a region to watch for value in top-tier red wine. While the market for Rhône wines has remained flat since that time (there has been less than…
Consistency is a tricky word when it comes to wine. On one hand, wine is a food product, and most food products are expected to taste precisely the same as long as they are consumed within a prescribed window of…
“I had ceased now to feel mediocre, accidental, mortal. Whence could it have come to me, this all-powerful joy? I was conscious that it was connected with the taste of tea and cake, but that it infinitely transcended those savours,…
I never turn down an opportunity to taste top-shelf Bordeaux, and for whatever reason those opportunities have been plentiful lately. After countless trade events and a masterclass or two, I’ve racked up such a mountain of notes on both sides…
Last week we highlighted the top producers of white wine in the Loire Valley, one of France’s most underrated wine regions. The Loire’s red wines, from Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc, and to a lesser extent Côt, Gamay, and Grolleau, are…