Jean Louis Pinto is a négoce and for me, his wines have been a little uneven. Yet, upon first taste of his Brutal, I was pleasantly surprised. This fruit comes... read more →
Jo Jefferies is a British guy who lives and makes wine in the Languedoc on volcanic soils. Friends with Remi Pujol, one of the Brutal originalists, he of course wanted... read more →
Antonio Vilchez Valenzuela makes this from the high mountains, 900m up on the north face of the Sierra Nevada in Andalusia. Michael Yarmack, the former owner of Thirst Wine Merchants... read more →
Valli Unité is a hippie organic commune and cooperative just north of Genoa in the easternmost part of Piemonte. The wines here are made with ideals and the last bunch... read more →
From the hot-as-hell vintage of 2017 comes a 13.5 ABV grignolino charmer. Usually this tannic grape gets disrespected with the soif treatment—a quick, fizzy ferment. But when you taste this... read more →
Joe Jefferies says that the only things that interest him are bicycles and making wine. The latter shows in every bottle of his I’ve had. (The bicycles, that’s another story.)... read more →
Caleb Leisure went out on his own in 2017 and lucky for him, his mentor Tony Coturri allowed him to plant all of his ten Georgian qvevri on the Coturri... read more →
Xavier named his winery after his daughter, and what a bubbly girl she must be. A farmer who turned to wine in 2003, he works on 7 hectares in the... read more →
Jordi Pérez took over the famed domaine a few years back when Alain Castex had divorce issues. Schiste happens. But Alain mentored his protégé and the spirit continues. Truly, his... read more →
Jordi Pérez makes some beautiful wines from his granitic soils overlooking the sea. This bottling is a combination of whole cluster, destemmed and crushed grapes that are macerated for five... read more →