Written by Peter Plaehn, Wine Buyer What’s Natural Wine?    A big can of worms, that’s what. No two wine people can agree on what “natural” ...

Written by Peter Plaehn, Wine Buyer The best supporting role in a wine goes to... Semillon. Sam Rockwell. Helena Bonham Carter. Andre Braugher. These actors did not make thei ...

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We've adopted! It's ...a Mountain. An Alp, to be specific. Ask any of our cheesemongers for a recommendation this time ...

Written by Peter Plaehn, Wine Buyer Burgundy is a region defined by location: your vineyard is either in the right place or it isn’t. While this has held true for centuri ...

Written by Jason DeRusha I had a wonderful opportunity to get out to the Willamette Valley in Oregon last year for a quick getaway with Alyssa. Among the many great wineries we ...

Written by Surdyk's Staff Truth be told, a traditional Thanksgiving dinner is probably the one holiday meal where you could get away with putting just about any wine on the tab ...

Written by Peter Plaehn, Wine Buyer   Australia is home to some of the oldest own-rooted vineyards in the world. That is, parts of the country have never had to graft the ...

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