We’re proud to announce World Class Wines has teamed with the legendary wines of Boisset America!
These are dynamic additions to our portfolio, and will help to round out our American and French selections. Bouchard has a stellar reputation as one of the top ‘major’ producers of Burgundy. Louis Bernard brings us value oriented [...]
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If you think about a ‘place’, it has a name you can attach to it. In wine, Chianti is defined, regulated, laid out. Likewise for Rutherford, Santa Lucia Highlands, Barossa Valley, etc. A ‘location’ is simply a spot of land, identifiable by a specific latitude and longitude (and thanks to Google Earth, you can zoom [...]
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This morning at 9:30 am, Tuesday August 19th, the single most emailed story on the New York Times website was not that Obama has decided a running mate, it was not the war in Iraq, it was not the Olympics. Here’s the true measure of the popularity of wine in today’s culture: it was about [...]
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Happy Fourth of July to everybody! And in the quest for the ultimate summertime fare, keep in mind the wonderful combination of ribs (beef, short, pork, baby back, St. Louis style, Texas style, doesn’t matter!) and red wine, especially Zinfandel. Particularly good this year are the 2005 Seghesio Old Vine, [...]
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The Santa Rosa Press Democrat has done an excellent job keeping people up to the minute on the wildfires of Northern California. As of now, we have not heard of any damage to wineries or vineyards, but that could change with a moment’s notice.
You can go here for a current, up to the minute, [...]
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Minnesotans know what it’s like to be cold (especially after this last winter!). In many ways, we relish that first morning of beautiful frost covering the lawns and trees. But for California grape growers, frost is a four letter word … especially this year. Although weather for the past couple weeks in California has [...]
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We’re proud to announce the arrival of LIOCO (pronounced LEE-oh-co) wines to the state of Minnesota.
The terms ‘hand crafted’ and ‘limited production’ are tossed around endlessly in the world of wine (when you really think of it, all wines are hand crafted and limited by their very nature). But here you have something different: [...]
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Big news from our friends on Spring Mountain, Fantesca Winery. Former Screaming Eagle winemaker Heidi Barrett has joined Fantesca! To say this is big news is the understatement of the year, and congrats to Duane and Susan for landing Ms. Barrett!
Next week is Winefest in Minneapolis (which, amazingly, gets better and better every [...]
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