For 2020, Tour de Wines will be pairing the best wines with some of the best races in professional cycling. Whether it’s a spicy Northern Rhone or a dry Albariño, we will be pairing wines from the Grand Tours to the cobbled Classics. May your wines never peak and your rubber always stay down.
2020 Giro d’Italia: Week 3. Best paired with Campodora Albana Secco Romagna. Tao's win in this year's giro gives us a sense of endless possibilities. May we all have a wine like Rohan Dennis brimming of peach and apricot to pace us up the steepest of climbs.
2020 Tour of Flanders. Best paired with Bodegas Luberri Crianza Biga. To quote George Orwell, "'If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel attacking each other — forever.”
2020 Giro d’Italia: Week 2. Best paired with Arianna Occhipinti IL Frappato. This second week of the Giro felt like the greatest second act that Shakespeare never wrote. Comedy. Tragedy. All layered with the rich, dark Autumnal Slumber of violets and cherries.
2020 Giro d’Italia: Week 1. Best paired with Torre Dei Beati “Giocheremo con i Fiori”. Covid cases. brutal, wet weather. teams leaving. The first week of the Giro almost necessitates notes of pear, citrus, and wild herbs to calm our fragile nerves.
2020 Gent–Wevelgem. Best paired with Pennautier Pinot Noir. While we hope that the Belgium classics return to the spring, 2020 Gent-Wevelgem was a cagey affair. While other better known Pinots mark each other's every move, this Languedoc gem takes the win.
2020 Liège–Bastogne–Liège. Best paired with Jo Landron Atmospheres Brut. Far from the most stellar of race finishes, sometimes nice natural bubbles are a perfect palate cleanser. A tip of the hat to Roglic. An elegant sparkling wine reminds us to celebrate, but never too early.
2020 Flèche Wallonne. Best paired with Doelas Albariño. This year's edition of Flèche felt like a departure from races past with young Spartacus, Marc Hirschi, hitting the mark on the Mur. This Galician white tastes of slings and arrows of outrageous lemon and bright minerals.
2020 UCI Men's Worlds Road Race. Best paired with Paitin Barbaresco Serraboella. While Conventional wisdom might dictate pairing Loulou's win with a nice Côte de Beaune, we are going with the harmonious balance of fruit and tannins from Neive. Notes of cherries and cut grass.
2020 Tour de France: Week 3. Best paired with Pastis 51. While not wine, drinking pastis often feels like we're living the beau monde. Here's famed cycling journalist François Thomazeau's own recipe: "One to five [parts water] is the accepted ratio…from the ice cube jug.”
2020 Tour de France: Week 2. Best paired with Jo Landron Fief du Breil. This gem of a Muscadet pairs perfectly with mussels and never-ending climbs through the South and West of France. All that we ask for out of this tour is an endless pot of Moules Marinières and epic stages.
2020 Tour de France: Week 1. Best paired with Le Clos de Caveau 'Fruit Sauvage'. This year, we're taking nothing for granted, and as the autumn light ripples over the peloton and vineyards, we reach for the wine stem of a calming red. unfiltered. South of France. perfection.
2020 Giro di Lombardia. Best paired with Borgo Savaian "Aransat" . Horrific crashes are tough to shake. It's hard not to drink a glass of even the most subtle of orange wines without hoping for Health and healing in 2020. We raise a glass to the incredible people of Bergamo and Lombardy.
2020 Milan-San Remo. Best paired with Alla Costiera Prosecco. Feels like every new race is something to celebrate. We are ready for a future of endless Prosecco and oysters. Wout van Aert continues to shine in these dog days of summer heat.
2020 Strade Bianche. Best paired with Domaine de Maubet. We are heading to Gascony with this wine pick. Heat, heat, and more heat is the name of the game, but we'll sit on the veranda, listen to the cicadas, and know that on the white roads of Tuscany, there's a bike race.
2020 Paris-Nice. Best Paired with Maggie Smith’s poem, “Good Bones.” In these uncertain times, it’s best to turn to each other for love and support. We are wishing everyone health and safety.
2020 Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne. Best paired with Bodega Garzon 'Reserva' Albarino. Give us your cold races. Your stouthearted solo victory by another marvel of the Deceuninck–Quick-Step rank. This Uruguayan white bursts forth with a layer of mineral and salinity.
2020 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. Best paired with Pascal Biotteau Anjou Blanc. There is almost no better sight in cycling than seeing a front group of Flemish riders attack on the Muur. With honey notes and a strong finish, our dreams are of spring cycling and summers in the Loire.
2020 Tour Down Under. Best paired with Torbeck Woodcutter’s Shiraz. This Barossa Valley red is everything we love about Australian cycling. This wine lives on a lively edge of plums and raspberries, and invites the question, “will we see Richie Porte in winning form come summer?”
