Vintages
1982 Rioja is a luminous classic: cool Atlantic season, long élevage in American oak, and moderate 12.5–13.5% ABV shaped wines of dried cherry, cedar, tobacco, and citrus lift. Explore Alta, Alavesa, and Oriental styles, iconic producers, and drink-or-hold windows for well-stored bottles.
Tasting Notes
Clos Erasmus 2001 is a benchmark Priorat of profound concentration, featuring black cherry, crushed slate, and fine-grained tannins. Drinking beautifully now but capable of evolving through 2035+.
Wineries
Discover the story of Troplong Mondot — Saint-Émilion’s hilltop icon. From its 18th-century origins to modern organic mastery, explore how altitude, limestone, and time shaped one of Bordeaux’s most visionary estates.
Investment Reports
Bacchus recounts the night he corked a gale above Margaux - and why that split-second gamble mirrors the precise timing Palmer 2018 now demands of serious investors. When Bacchus bottled the breeze A feral mistral once shot up the Gironde, ready to rip every violet blossom from Palmer’s Cabernet
Tasting Notes
Huet Le Mont Moelleux 2017 is a legendary sweet Vouvray with 53g/L residual sugar perfectly balanced by racy, salty-piquant acidity. It has profound aging potential (2040+), featuring notes of quince, honey, and flinty minerality.
Wineries
Discover how Fernando Remírez de Ganuza transformed Rioja through precision. From hand-sorted vines to architectural winemaking, explore how innovation, discipline, and devotion reshaped Spain’s most historic wine region
Investment Reports
Bacchus blazes across Hermitage hill, then lifts the lid on a white-Rhône legend whose numbers now hiss like a punctured wineskin. Myth in Motion I barreled up Hermitage’s granite crown at midnight, panthers clawing for purchase, wheels cutting arcs of flame across the shale. A wide-eyed merchant thrust an
Vintages
Sauternes 1988: A monumental vintage where River Mist forged wines of profound tension. High, laser acidity perfectly threads the honeyed core, creating a crystalline balance built for decades of serene, eternal aging. Essential guide for collectors.
Tasting Notes
The Dominus 2016 is the rare moment where the hedonistic pleasure of Napa meets the punishing discipline of Bordeaux—and the result is a masterpiece. Skip it, and you deserve to pay corkage on a bottle of mediocre, fruit-forward sludge at a bad business dinner.
Wine & Food Pairings
A lyrical Domaine Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage Rouge 2015 food pairing—lamb, smoked eel, truffle, and myth told by Geshtinanna herself.
Wineries
Discover the story of Graci — the winemaker who brought Etna back to life. From ash and altitude, he forged wines of purity and power, capturing the volcano’s living spirit in every bottle.
Investment Reports
After Bacchus persuades a thirst-hoarding clay serpent to yield seven hectares of fertile earth, investors ask whether this 100-point Super Tuscan still has room to coil upward in a modern portfolio. When Bacchus Tamed the Clay Serpent Long before vines crowned the Bolgheri coast, a vast clay serpent named Argilax