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Meritage: California’s Best Blend

Meritage is California’s answer to Bordeaux.  It is also a term that has come in vogue to describe New World blends that are made from traditional red Bordeaux varietals.  Therefore, a meritage wine is...

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What to Look for in September

In September, The International Wine of the Month Club’s Premier Series is excited to offer four exceptional wines from around the world, beginning with the 2017 Sillares Almansa Garnacha Tintorera....

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Beaujolais: France’s Unsung Hero

Beaujolais remains one of France’s classic and most endearing wines, although its reputation has been maligned by the ocean of Beaujolais Nouveau that began inundating our shores each November a...

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What to Look for in November

In November, The International Wine of the Month Club’s Premier Series offers four unique, highly acclaimed wines. To begin this month’s odyssey is the 2018 Château Pizay Morgon, a wine that...

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Our Owner’s Top 7 Picks Available in our Wine Store Now

We asked the head of our wine curation panel, Don Lahey, to come up with the top 7 wines they’d pick from our inventory to get them through the quarantine (One for each day of the week!). Here’s what...

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Cabernet Franc

Cabernet Franc often lives in the shadow of its younger and more assertive sibling, Cabernet Sauvignon. Although reluctant to rely on gender stereotyping of grape varietals or their particular...

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Malbec: Better Than Ever

Malbec’s more than decade-long meteoric rise to prominence north of the Rio Grande has secured it a place at dinner tables and around barbecue pits all across America. Invariably, Malbec offers a...

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Petite Sirah: California’s Latest Darling

Petite Sirah, also known as Durif, is named for Francois Durif, the French botanist who first identified the grape in the late 19th century in the south of France. Petite Sirah is thought to be the...

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Wildfires Ravage California Wine Country

Unless you are one of the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the flames throughout California wine country, you cannot imagine the intensity of these blazes and the destruction ignited by more...

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What’s the World’s Greatest Red Wine Value?

Carmenère, Chile’s emblematic red wine, could certainly lay claim to being the world’s greatest red wine value. Why? Of all the Bordeaux varietals and South American wines, Carmenère stands out to me...

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