Muscadet Wine: Quick Guide

As you continue your journey into wine, at some point you’re going to come across a bottle of Muscadet wine. Muscadet wine originates from the westernmost Loire Valley. It’s a French white wine made with the neutral Melon de Bourgogne grape. Aging it sur lie adds texture. Look for quality Muscadet-Sèvre et Maine with lemon, […]

Wine Flights: Everything You Need to Know

If you hang around wine people long enough, you’re going to run across the term “wine flight”. A wine flight is not, in fact, an airplane full of wine nerds – though I’d be up for that! A wine flight is a set of different but related servings of wine. Typically a wine flight is […]

Chablis Wine

Wine naming conventions can be confusing, especially when the wine goes by a growing region and not a grape. Chablis (shah-blee) wines are made from 100% Chardonnay grapes in north-central France. Chablis is a dry white wine with high acid, green apple and citrus notes. Chablis is typically unoaked with a mineral quality making it […]