Grape Collective talks with Pierre Gayrard about the native varietals of Gaillac, the terroir of the region, and his foray into the world of orange winemaking.
Michael Longshore
Michael Longshore
Writer
Michael Longshore is a semi-retired bartender living in New York City with his wife and two hound dogs. On leave from graduate school since 1992, he spends most of his non dog-walking hours eating and drinking and thinking about eating and drinking.
April 15, 2023
April 14, 2022The challenge for the gin lover is to find the true craftspeople of the gin world, to separate them from the herd. In that light, Greenhook and Steven DeAngelo almost belong in their own category, that of gin made not out of necessity but by design.
August 11, 2021"The grey market is incredibly important. Distributors used to have older wine but then all of a sudden things changed and they’re just selling current releases, and if they’re selling “library wine,” wine that’s been aged at the estate, you’re buying at an outrageous markup. Obviously the provenance is going to be perfect, but it’s a huge markup and if you’re a restaurant you’ve got to make money on your wine list. You want to price it where it’s attractive enough that somebody’s actually going to buy the wine." -Charles Puglia
June 23, 20211985 might not seem like much of a year as years go--‘Take on Me,’ by a-ha, was on the charts for 27 weeks; you might have played the cassette in your IROC-Z Camaro or your Prelude.
