Jo Landron and Fred Niger are good friends. Jo and Fred both love great bubbles, and they both make great bubbles. Mark Hayes, from Pastoral here in Chicago, loves Jo Landron’s bubbles. I mean, this dude loves Atmospheres. So it was with some trepidation that we introduced Fred to Mark at Rootstock. Would it [...]
The Wine Spectator’s Associate Editor Tim Fish ( @timfishwine) sat down with Charlie Barra up in Mendocino County recently and seems to have come away as impressed with the man, his work, and his legacy as we’ve been here at Candid as we’ve come to know him. Tim writes “We get so caught up in [...]
The world premiere of “Les Terroiristes Du Languedoc” takes place January 27th, 2013 in Montpellier, France just before the start of this year’s Millesime Bio conference and tasting highlighting organic wines. At the heart of the film is a study of people who have come into the are from the outside and are working to [...]
Today’s Washington Post signs the praises of Muscadet, and particularly those of Domaine de l’Ecu. The article is one more arrow in the quiver of those of us whose adore this region and the value that its best producers offer in the form of ageable, single vineyard wines. My only gripe is with the last [...]
Krista Giovacco, a reporter at Bloomberg in New York, recently joined a diverse collection of folks who thought that working for free on Cosimo Maria Masini’s biodynamic farm in Tuscany during harvest sounded like a great idea. They sound like our kind of folks! Krista’s article is excerpted below, and we hope that her descriptions [...]
Posts in the Candid Wines: Why category describe why we represent the wines that we do. Why do we consider a wine Candid? They will examine winemaking choices, the intentions of our farming and winemaking partners, and some of our history with people around the world as we have grown. We also attempt to answer [...]
Work at Les Chesnaies in Chinon is done by hand. And foot. Learn more about Les Chesnaies.
Early in most wine lovers’ introduction to the wines of France comes a lesson on the subdivision of regions within Burgundy into “cru”, some of which produce wines so unique and spectacular they are labelled “Grand Cru” status. The underlying social, political, religious, and geological forces which have created this system could well serve as [...]
Domaine Guiberteau is one of the leading estates in the Loire Valley. Here Robert Guiberteau talks about his father and his son and their farming practices. Romain Guiberteau today produces Cabernet Franc and Chenin Blanc from small parcels around Saumur, all of which are farmed organically. via Candid Wines’ YouTube Channel “Ask a Winemaker”. Click [...]
American Filmmaker Ken Payton and his team have been flooding my Facebook stream with superb photos of harvest in Languedoc this fall. One of my favorites shows Karen Turner and Emmanuel Pageot in the vineyard with their children and captures the sense of family and of place that is my strongest memory of visiting them. [...]
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