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Archive for March, 2007

New Releases – Gruner Veltliners


Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Our latest vintages of Gruner Veltliner have arrived and are ready to land on your doorstep! We've picked out some real gems this year, not least because 2005 was a stand-out vintage (check out this vintage report for more details.) For those of you just getting hip to the whole Gruner Veltliner thing, check out our Introduction to Gruner Veltliner. It will give a great overview of what Gruner Veltliner is, what Gruner Veltliner does, how Gruner Veltliner tastes, and ...

In Search of Excellence in Blaufrankisch: The Moric Project


Thursday, March 1st, 2007

 "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." Albert EinsteinFor over a decade, winemaker Roland Velich made an intense study of the red wines from France's Burgundy region with the explicit goal of finding "that thing", as he puts it, that a wine must possess in order to achieve greatness."I embarked on a quest for excellence in ...

Winemonger in the Los Angeles Times


Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Winemonger was featured in the Los Angeles Times Food Section on February 28th. The article, titled "Trading it All In for the Grape Life", focuses primarily on the importing side of Winemonger and the story behind how we got started in this business.
Emily with Lotte, photo by Stephan
We don't put our own story on the front line here at Winemonger.com, because we felt (and still feel) that the important story is that of the wine and the winemaker. However, there have been those ...

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