While there are plenty of cartoonish labels out there that signal their naturalness, here’s one that refuses to fly the flag. Yet it's a wine worthy of any cab franc... read more →
This year I decided to make my own kosher wine for Passover, and all I needed was a felt-tipped pen. For some reason I just don’t drink enough Tissot and... read more →
The domaine is in the cute, red-geranium besotted town of Eguisheim (home to natural wine icon Domaine Schueller). The new generation, Denis, took his dad’s biodynamic (since 2006) farming further... read more →
From a maker of some spectacular cava and pet’nats comes a remarkable skin contact macabeu. The wine is fermented in a combo of barrique and 600 liter clay amphora and... read more →
That moose is my new patron saint. About three years ago Deidre and her assistant winemaker Camila Carrillo started their collaboration based on their mutual fascination with oxidative wines. Lovers... read more →
This is part of La Garagista’s fruit ciders line up and it’s wow-worthy. Refermentation of the 75% pear, is kicked off with 25% apple. There's plenty of beauty inside this... read more →
Alsatian producer Christian Binner started this project a few years back to mentor up-and-coming voices in the region and to bring brilliant wines at gentle prices to market. He basically... read more →
Does chardonnay find its best self in the Jura? I think so. And in 2019, Alice Bouvot knocked me out with this: a multi-faceted expression of a grape that can... read more →
It is with great sadness that I drank this bottle of beauty from the last complete vintage of Pascal Clairet. Vinified in stainless in full carbonic, it is then aged... read more →
A blurring of the boundaries between wine and cooking, between yin and yang, can make you question relationships. You’ll get all of this in this rare bottling made for Patagonia... read more →