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A $20 Wine Flight Night, a Cheese Warehouse Sale & Our Favorite Coffee Cup
Plus: why wine geeks are obsessed with Jura, a New Yorker piece on how wildfires are affecting wine, a place where you need to order a burger and a martini, and more.
Good morning!
This week, we’re sharing two articles: one from The New Yorker on how wildfires are affecting wine and the scientists chasing solutions, and another from Wine Enthusiast, released over the summer, that dives into all things Jura.
Plus: an affordable wine recommendation of the week, a pricier-ish bottle worth seeking out, a special non-alc bundle we put together with our friends at Boisson, a cheese warehouse sale you’ll want to mark on your calendar, and a small note that our cartoon of the week returns next week.
Enjoy! Thank you for reading!
— Nathan Bodenstein
Insight into why Jura became a cult favorite among wine drinkers, with bottle recommendations and a brief history of the region.
The industry has lost billions of dollars, largely because smoke makes the drink taste like licking an ashtray. Now a team of scientists is chasing a solution.
Williamsburg wine bar Plus de Vin (PdV) hosts a $20 blind flight night every Tuesday. Each week, you’re poured four half-glasses of wine and given a sheet to guess the grape for each pour. Get all four right and the flight is comped. We’ve gone twice over the past month with friends, and it’s been such a nice way to spend time together. Wine, but with an activity built in that encourages you to talk to the people around you. PdV is a fantastic wine bar any night of the week, but this is a fun ritual to look forward to. Highly recommend.
Date: Every Tuesday night (check their Instagram story day of)
Time: 5pm — late
Where: Plus de Vin, 445 Graham Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Original Instagram Post: here
This isn’t wine-related, sure, but it is cheese-related, and we’re pretty confident that many of you reading this newsletter love cheese just as much as you love wine. Cheese Cheese is a wholesale distributor that specializes in, well, cheese. We just learned from our friend Mel that they host occasional warehouse sales where the cheese is sold at wholesale prices and open to the public. It sounds like a dream scenario, and we’ll definitely be there on the 31st.
Date: Saturday, January 31st
Time: 12pm - 4pm
Where: 302 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Original Instagram Post: here
Other News & Other Stuff & Other Reads
A wine product we love & think you’ll love: This functional yet pretty Champagne crown sealer from Le Creuset that you can use if you don’t finish this week’s wine recommendation.
A non-wine product we love & think you’ll love: These Marni porcelain coffee cups that we reach for just about every morning.
A newsletter to subscribe to: A food & drink Substack we’ve been following for a while.
An affordable wine recommendation of the week: A $16 biodynamically farmed Aligoté (normally $20–26) from a region excluded from the Chablis appellation after phylloxera paralyzed the area in the late nineteenth century.
A pricier-ish wine recommendation of the week: A ~$55-65 grower Champagne to celebrate making it this far down in the newsletter.
Non-alcoholic recommendation of the week: A trio of our favorites, selected in collaboration with our friends at Boisson.
A place where you have to go to order: a martini and a hamburger (and the cheese curds). This Cobble Hill staple isn’t a secret at all. Well known and loved by many.