Summer is here and the heat is on at Wilson Daniels: Champagne Gosset’s Retrospective Trade Seminar and Tasting Tour kicked off the May madness in Boston, New York and San Francisco, while Domaine Leflaive and Grieve Family Winery starred in seminars on Nantucket Island and in the Napa Valley. One would think it’s time for a bit of well-deserved R&R, but we are just getting started. Hope you all can keep up because the Italians are coming … siete pronti per questo?   

A few of the juicy details…

• hot press: Arnaldo Caprai 2015 Grecante Grechetto — first on Emma Balter’s list of “16 Fresh Whites from Italy and Beyond” in Wine Spectator (90 points)
• what people are saying: The Daily Meal’s Andrew Chalk praises Arista Winery for being “in the vanguard of Russian River pinot noir and chardonnay”
• coming soon: Auction Napa Valley is live and E-Auction Lot #417, “Experience RouteStock,” is open for bidding through June 5: http://bit.ly/RSE-AuctionLotANV16
• in memory of: the late Jean-Pierre Mareigner, cellar master at Champagne Gosset

Enjoy the extract! The WD PRess (May 2016) is also available LinkedIn — linkedin.com/company/wilson-daniels.