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We’re combining forces with Global Wine Database to build the world’s best wine information portal. The team is tasked with collecting, quantifying, and maintaining a centralized knowledge base of global wine information – available to all. Global Wine Database adds the layer of truth and authenticity to wine regional data, wineries, and wines to Wine Folly’s platform. The new company is called Folly Enterprises and it’s already off to a great start with information gathered on many of the top regions of the world.

If you get the chance to visit Châteauneuf-du-Pape, the fastest way to see most of the region’s wines is through the appellation’s wine shop, Vinadea. The assemblage (wine blend) is typically 90% Grenache with a splash of Mourvèdre, that’s partially destemmed and aged in concrete tanks and large wooden foudres. These 62 acres (25 hectares) of vineyards include all three of Châteauneuf-du-Pape’s soil types including galets roulés (rounded stones over sandy-clay), safres (sandy soils), and eclats calcaires (limestone-based clays). This is a family owned and operated estate with 99 acres (40 hectares) planted in Châteauneuf-du-Pape and 49 acres on the exceptional La Crau Plateau, where the vineyards are covered with galets roulés (round river stones) over iron-rich red clay.

I couldn’t have done it without all the amazing contributions, opinions, thoughts, and even the critical feedback from people like you. Here are some current favorites to explore: I’ll be the first to admit communicators like GaryVee, Jancis Robinson, Kevin Zraly, and Evan Goldstein MS majorly influenced my work. And, while we’re talking influence, let’s not forget all the incredible communication designers like Bureau Oberhaeuser and Federica Fragapane (Federica helped me with the design in book #2)! My partner and I started Wine Folly on a crazy whim that just maybe two twenty-somethings could contribute to the community.

Palate has more tart and herbal fruit flavors that are supported by somewhat bitter tannins that I sense in the middle of my tongue. Wine isn’t incredibly long on the palate, but the floral, sweet fruit aromas make it very pleasant to drink! On the palate, the wine has very big, bold fruit flavors of raspberry that lead into a tilled soil note and moderately rigid tannins on the sides and middle of my tongue. I preferred the Burgundy (so typical sommelier-like of me – sheesh! ), whereas my S. O. was enraptured with the floral and fruit aromas in the Oregon Pinot Noir.