This is our 3rd year in a row featuring a rosé in the May Wine Club and the reaction is always mixed. But here’s what’s what, we at Dedalus really like…no…love rosé. The four of us who work here get downright giddy when spring rolls around and the new vintages of crisp pink stuff start [...read more]

The Vietti family has been growing grapes since the 19th Century, and over the course of time, they got pretty good at it.  In 1919 Patriarch Mario Vietti started making wine from their grapes, and they quickly got pretty good at that as well. Vietti’s notoriety was reinforced by being one of the first to [...read more]

There is more Gruner Veltliner grown in Austria than any other single grape. Why then, are so many of us not drinking it? It has so much to offer! Gruner is one of the best food matches out there, stepping in stride with vegetables of every variety and partnering well with everything from seafood to [...read more]

Who doesn’t love summer by the lake? Sun shining, warm sand between your toes, and ending your day with a glass of crisp white wine as you watch the fiery sunset. Whether you’re at a beach house, on a boat, or even just imagining you’re lakeside while on your patio, we’ve got the wine for [...read more]

I have to be honest here. After a fabulous, and full, holiday weekend I’m kinda drained. And as I sit here typing this, looking out the window onto a beautiful sunny summer day, I can’t help but think about things non-work related, like sitting in my back yard, glass of something tasty and cold in [...read more]

Spain’s Bierzo region is a small, ancient region in the northwestern corner of Castilla y León, which is due north of Portugal on the Atlantic coast. The soil at Bodegas Abad is composed of clay, sand, and quartz, which surrounds the wine with a stony edge. This is 100% Godello, a unique variety that reflects [...read more]

This wine is a bit mysterious; efforts to dig up information about the winery and the wine, yielded fruitless results. There is almost zero information about this wine on the web, which nowadays, is quite amazing! Do we let that deter us from sharing it with you? Heck no! Because what we do know about [...read more]

Who wouldn’t love to summer in Sicily? To spend glorious blue skied days on an island in the Mediterranean eating freshly caught seafood and sipping local hand crafted wines. It would be idyllic, however not always immediately feasible. Why not bring Sicily home? After all, we have some beautiful summer days ahead of us in VT [...read more]

I’ve noticed something about most of my dinner parties. They tend to get a bit messy (in a good way). They aren’t very formal and, frankly, they get pretty ruckus. A lot of what we eat involves using fingers instead of forks. My wine choices need to fit with this un-stuffy atmosphere. They need to be more [...read more]

To the delight of those who already love it and to the chagrin of those who aren’t quite convinced, we bring you our newest example of a delicious, drinkable rosé. Selecting the right one, wasn’t an easy task, when it comes to rosé, we’re picky. We didn’t want to show it just for the sake [...read more]

I like my Sauvignon Blanc to be interesting. Is that too much to ask? But wait! I also want it to be crisp, steely, flinty, smoky, minerally, bright, and clean. So… it’s a lengthy list, but no worries, it’s an easy list of demands for the Régis Minet Pouilly Fumé to accomodate. The wine offers a fresh [...read more]

I have never been a big fan of salads. The term “rabbit food” totally springs to mind whenever I put a forkful of lettuce into my mouth. It squeaks on my teeth, as if to say that it’s none too pleased with this whole idea either! Sure, I’ve been known to happily nosh on a [...read more]

Christophe Buisson always knew he wanted to be a winemaker – he grew up in Beaune, surrounded by some of the world’s best. But he didn’t have a vineyard in his family. He assembled his estate the hard way, piece by piece, over time. He farms his hard-won land biodynamically – without the use of [...read more]

When I first tried The Royal Chenin Blanc from Riebeek Cellars, I proclaimed it to to be fantastic! Sadly, it was not my first glass of wine, not my second either, truth be told I was at a large (very large) wine tasting and the table housing this wine was one of the last ones [...read more]

Okay, over in France, specifically in Burgundy, there is this winemaker who specializes in white wines, and is considered by many in France to be the best in the business.  Now, Jean-Marie Guffens produced a few wines under the name Guffens-Heynen, particularly a wine called Macon-Pierreclos, and it consistently, since 1980, has been a stunning [...read more]

You may not recognize the name Villaine…but there are many wine enthusiasts that certainly will.  Aubert de Villaine is one of the owners of Domaine de la Romanee Conti, producers of some of the most coveted and expensive Burgundies.  You usually need a serious mortgage payment to consider buying a single bottle from this prestigious [...read more]

Picture this; it’s late afternoon (say 4:00) on a perfectly sunny July Sunday.  A gentle breeze ripples lightly through the trees in your backyard where you are idly leafing through your favorite publication (say Food & Wine) and you are thirsty. You reach for your glass of Domaine de Pouy Blanc and sip.  It’s beautifully [...read more]