MAITRE DE CAVE

a wineblog, but not only

Our wineblog is dedicated to amateurs, explorers, and connoisseurs of wine. Join us to enjoy the wine and cuisine from cutting edge dining experiences, the conviviality of wine events and the focus of critical tastings, and the beauty and pleasure of the exciting destinations we investigate. Welcome on board.

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By Maitre de Cave

When an American sommelier and a French enologist share their wine passion

also their passion and interest for culture and gastronomy, so many comments may pop out ! Time for us to share our experiences .

Maitre de Cave is our communication brand

Robert Lawrence Stepek is a cosmopolitan, North American Sommelier-Consultant with more than 45 years of critiquing wines as an importer, retail and restaurant manager, and Cellar Master. Robert Lawrence guides you through the olfactive, gustative, and tactile universe of wines.

Marie Pull is a Languedocian globetrotter as well as an Oenologist and webmarketer. Marie has been a winemaker and worked in oenotourism as both a project manager and a Community Manager. She is happy to share her winery experience and technical information regarding wines, viticulture, biodiversity, wine-industry revelations and innovations, and leading edge internet marketing including web3 creativity.

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ALL ABOUT THE VALLE D’AOSTA VITI AND VINI CULTURE

Aug,19, 2026 | 10.Vineyards and Nature, 8.Wine events and discoveries

The Valle d’Aosta is:

A “living archive of pre‑industrial viticulture” preserving ancient clones and ungrafted vines
A region where native grapes dominate and DOC rules protect typicity (no international varieties permitted in DOC wines)
A place where extreme altitude, glacial soils, and heroic viticulture create wines of “electric acidity and crystalline aromatics”

Bordeaux En Primeur 2025 — A Vintage of Fire and Freshness

May,3, 2026 | Other

After tasting more than 500 wines, the Maître de Cave team fully confirms these expectations. The overall level is high, with many excellent wines and several true standouts. Ripeness, freshness and refined extraction reflect the responsiveness of the teams: early harvesting, gentle extraction, and cooler fermentation choices.