Merchant of Wine Blog
Best Champagne Brands in 2021 | Our Favorite Champagne
There are as many good reasons to pop a bottle of champagne as there are reasons to celebrate: birthdays, holidays, ...
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Best White Wine for Spring | 2021 Edition
Spring is here! The days are long, the weather is warmer, flowers are blooming, and things are starting to feel hopef...
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Learnaboutwine.com | The Launch of Our Partner Site
We're excited to announce the launch of our partner site, Learnaboutwine.com! Learnaboutwine.com is a wine education ...
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Mar 2, 2021
National Wine Days in 2021
If you're like us here at Merchant of Wine, you don't need a reason to open a great bottle of wine. However, it can be fun to mark these dates on your calendar and find a special bottle to open to celebrate the day.
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Feb 2, 2021
How Does Coravin Work?
When we discovered the Coravin product, we immediately knew this was a product that our Merchant of Wine customers ne...
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Jan 7, 2021
Our Top 10 Wines of 2020
2020. What a year. We all spent a lot more time at home. We learned to make sourdough bread or make the perfect steak or knit or paint or complete puzzles. We read books and we binge watched Netflix. We started gardens and spent more time with our families than ever before.
And we drank wine. Lots of it.
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Dec 18, 2020
The Best Wine to Drink With Cheese
Wine and cheese are always an easy appetizer that pleases a crowd or can be scaled down for just a few people. Looking for the best wine and cheese pairings? We have 5 below that will not disappoint!
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Nov 13, 2020
Nielson Top 20 Brands of 2020 and The Wineries We Won't Be Supporting (And Why!)
There are roughly 10,000 wineries in the US that together employ around one million people and generate about $220 billion annually. As it is for any industry it’s challenging for small producers to compete with large multi million-dollar companies. This is a huge challenge many small wine producers face, but we believe there's room for everyone to succeed.
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Oct 12, 2020
How Does A Virtual Wine Tasting Work?
Virtual wine tasting is one of the best ways to bring people together online! When you combine knowledgable hosts, incredible wines and a fun online format you're guaranteed to have a good time. Get tasting kits with unique, hard to find wines delivered right to your door from Merchant of Wine.
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Sep 30, 2020
Napa Valley's Top Cult Wineries
One of the most common questions we're asked here at Merchant of Wine and WineLA is what our favorite CULT wineries are. This list is constantly changing and evolving, and sometimes it can be hard to find the most current lists of CULT wineries. These are the CULT wines of today per wine expert Ian Blackburn of wineLA.
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Why Our Zoom into Wine Virtual Wine Tasting Experience is the Best!
Zoom Into Wine is a multi-dimensional virtual wine tasting experience hosted by wine educator, Ian Blackburn. Ian has 30+ years of experience in the wine industry, and he hand selects and curates each of the wines featured in the tastings. Zoom Into Wine was created to extend the wine experience to the comfort of your home and Ian is the perfect host to guide you in that.
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Where to order wine delivery in Los Angeles
Getting to the store has been difficult at times in 2020, and lots of stores have limited inventory (last I checked). Why risk going out and finding a mediocre selection when you could have wines you'll love delivered directly to your door? Enter: Merchant of Wine.
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