You can tell when autumn has truly arrived. Besides the cooler weather, the falling leaves, and football, there is something else that your senses tell you it’s here. You can smell it. The air is crisp, smoky, earthy, and rich. During this time of year I want a wine that mimics that aroma. The Pardevalles [...read more]

Gramenon’s Sierra du Sud bottling is a single varietal wine – 100% Syrah, aged in used oak for 7 to 8 months (depending on the vintage). This is a terroir and fruit lightning bolt that everybody should have a shot at tasting. But with only five cases available in Vermont (and they’re all right here [...read more]

Super hard to find, and lusted after by wine geeks the world over, Gramenon’s Poignée de Raisins is made, primarily, from old-vine Grenache (around 90%). There’s a bit of Syrah blended in there as well. About half of the grapes are de-stemmed, while the rest of the juice is a result of whole-cluster pressing; seeds, [...read more]

Up in the foothills of the Andes lies the viticultural region of Mendoza, arguably Chile’s finest grape growing region.  And Malbec grows here as if it was its ancestral home, even though for years, this grape has been used to blend some of Bordeaux’s finest.  This is a single vineyard wine, with lively red colour [...read more]

This is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon so it can’t officially have an appellation on the label but it does come from the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. The Languedoc-Roussillon region is dominated by 740,300 acres of vineyards, three times the combined area of the vineyards in Bordeaux and the largest in the world.  It is estimated that one in ten bottles of the [...read more]