I’ve been tasting this for a year and now the wine has popped out of the box, or so I thought when I sipped it in Angers this year. Just... read more →
A positively fascinating, full flavored wine from a grape few people know about. Turns out that aidani is often added to the more well known assyrtiko, which gives the mostly... read more →
The cuttings for Vincent Caillé’s vines come from Clos Roche Blanche and in the bottle is the young, bouncy progeny. The wine is a good example of an Atlantic red... read more →
Textbook for carbonic at colder temperatures yet able to hold on to a sense of place. Wherever this wine is is where you want to be. Gorgeous, velvet and full... read more →
How can a place named Liebenberg go wrong? I walked through this sandstone-laden monopole of the Zusslin family with Marie two years ago, a lieu-dit bordering Grand Cru Pfingstberg. I... read more →
It’s expensive but it has breeding and character even if it is chardonnay. (I could get pilloried for saying such things of Burgundy.) There’s a hint of oak but it... read more →
I visited in 2010 and the wines keep on getting better and better. The 2009 is nothing short of stunning, an incredible balancing act with zip, verve, nervousness and a... read more →
I drank a lot of this pet’nat last month and never tired of it. There’s a crisp snap to the wine, always refreshing. And even better out of magnums. Glou.... read more →
The Côte de Bar village of Riceys has the only champagne appellation for still rosé, and according to law, the rosé must be carbonic. How much carbonic isn’t specified so... read more →
The De Moor’s 2012s were gorgeous, and the Chablis especially so. The oyster shells pop from the glass. This wine doesn’t come from their vines (try their Bel Air for... read more →