January 25, 2023
Above: Dan Parrott, Kimberly Jackson, & Trent Jackson. Hand-harvested, family-owned, & earth-friendly Napa Valley wines. The team at JAX is innovative, agile, and perhaps best of all, is producing some of the most competitive expressions of Napa and Sonoma out... UNFILTERED Archives: USA
Something for Everyone: Our Picks for this Thanksgiving
November 14, 2022
Arguably, the only thing more essential than your guest list and menu for a day filled with gratitude is your wine list! Whether you’ll be hosting this year, or will look forward to being someone else’s guest, choosing the right... IN VINO LIBERTAS: The 2022 Champagne Tour
November 10, 2022
We took some of the top growers in Champagne across the USA, stopping in Houston, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles to pop bottles for you, but it all started in NYC, on Halloween! We had never done a... Wine Enthusiast’s Top 100 Best Buys: The Pinot Project
October 12, 2022
We are pleased to announce that Wine Enthusiast Magazine has placed our 2020 Pinot Noir one of the Top 100 Best Buys of the year. In addition to this accolade Wine Enthusiast has given our 2020 vintage of The Pinot... Cider from the Finger Lakes: NY’s Other Big Apple
September 28, 2022
The Finger Lakes in New York has become a leading region for craft cider, owing to its unique terroir of glacial soils and climate moderating lakes. Even more important are the growers themselves. These aren’t the sweetened, flavored ‘hard’ ciders... Peter-Allan Finlayson on Gabrielskloof and Crystallum
September 14, 2022
With a winemaking tradition dating back to the 17th century and a diversity of terroir rivaling any of its northern hemisphere counterparts, it should come as no surprise that South Africa is producing some of the most compelling wines in... Grüner in Penn: Galen & Sarah Troxell on Galen Glen
August 31, 2022
Skurnik Wines welcomes our first Pennsylvania winery, Galen Glen, to the American Portfolio! Galen and Sarah established Galen Glen in 1995 when they purchased the Troxell Farm from Galen’s father. At that time Galen was a mechanical engineer and 6th... The Ballad of Ballard Canyon – Peter Stolpman on Stolpman Vineyards
June 15, 2022
Stolpman Vineyards’ story is reminiscent of the early pioneers of American winegrowing; they started with a dream of cultivating the land with their family and producing world class wine. Since then, their family has grown to include a full-time staff... An Interview with Carlo Mondavi: Sustaining 100 years of Mondavi Family Winemaking
April 27, 2022
At RAEN, brothers Carlo and Dante Mondavi, continue the pursuit of not only their dreams of making Pinot Noir, but also the one-hundred-year legacy of family love and dedication to the grape. Carlo pushes toward a truly ‘sustainable’ legacy of... A Toast to the Coast – Brian Talley on the new San Luis Obispo Coast AVA
April 13, 2022
As a third-generation farmer of the San Luis Obispo Coast and a leader of the local wine industry, Brian Talley was the perfect person to help create California’s newest and most coastal AVA. San Luis Obispo County sits on the...