This weekend in Northern California, we were honored to host guests from one of our very favorite Bordeaux producers, Château Haut-Bailly. The wines were excellent, the pairing dinner knocked it out of the park, and the company, throughout all, was superb.
Read MoreFebruary marks the 20th anniversary of our Champagne Buyer’s tenure at K&L, and over the years he’s built a remarkable Champagne program for us. The secret sauce: relationships with wonderful producers across the Champagne region, from small, family-run estates to infamous Grande Marques. In today’s newsletter, he and his team profile some of their favorites.
Read MoreThis past Friday, K&L hosted our annual Union des Grands Crus (UGC) Bordeaux tasting, featuring the 2017 vintage. It remains one of the great events of any given year and one of the most comprehensive tasting events you’ll find for any given region.
Read MoreThe Burgundies of Domaine Parent have long been a favorite of mine.
Read MoreHappy Lunar New Year! Today kicks off the year of the Metal Rat, and we’re celebrating with… what else?… wine!
Read MoreThis weekend was a decadent one for wine at chez Westby.
Read MoreOur Buyer Alex Pross lays it all out for us in our latest Burgundy newsletter: 2017 is still whistling Dixie, 2018 is great if you go with producers you trust. All in all, some excellent wine is currently on our shelves from this beloved region.
Read MoreThis week, staff members in all three stores were treated to a special winemaker tasting and training with Alfred Tesseron, the man behind the wonderful Pontet Canet estate in Pauillac, Bordeaux, and from the Tesseron family in Cognac. The occasion for his visit was to introduce us to his brand-new project on the other end of the winemaking world—our end of the winemaking world, in fact—Napa Valley. Tesseron is releasing the very first vintage of his Napa wine called Pym Rae, and it is as exceptional as one might expect from this talented, venerated winemaker.
Read MoreThis weekend, Cinnamon treated us to local Dungeness crab from Half Moon Bay, and I brought home a bottle of the 2013 Franck Bonville "Millesime" Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne to have with the noble crustacean.
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This coming February will mark twenty years for me here at K&L, and I feel truly blessed as I look back at a great 2019. It was very difficult for me to narrow this list down to just ten most memorable Champagnes, as I have been lucky enough to have had so many great bottles over the last twelve months. Most of the wines on this list I drank, not just tasted, and I am pleased to report that after all this time in the business, my enthusiasm for Champagne has not faded at all.
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K&L was founded on a love for Bordeaux, so what better category to dive into as we round the corner on a new decade? In this week’s newsletter, our resident Bordeaux aficionados dig into favorite vintages, favorite estates, favorite bargains… everything the Bordeaux lover needs to start the year off right!
Read MoreIt’s here—that time of year when Champagne gets the limelight it deserves: New Year’s Eve! Though you can definitely drink Champagne any time of the year (and should), you can’t drink anything but Champagne on New Year’s Eve. The gods demand it. You’re morally obliged. Hammurabi put it in his code.
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