With a laugh, Hardy might tell you as a winemaker he’s “banking on the losers,” but this wine is no loser. Familiar is blended from five of the seven vineyards... read more →
Here’s an out-of-the-box California idea. From volcanic, loamy soils blend the fiano of Campania (at home on volcanic) and arneis of Piemont (more at home on limestone). It’s no wonder... read more →
The almost 40-year-old, dry-farmed, ungrafted vines of the Jurassic Park vineyard have something special to say. They stand in brutal sunlight under a good floppy canopy, hiding from the nearby... read more →
Pinot beurot is the local name for pinot gris, the grape with a pink skin. No one much talks about it, but the grape often pops up in vineyards in... read more →
Finally, we get to see what the wines from the volcanic island of Azores can look like if worked more naturally. Sustainable viticulture, some filtration but the winemaker Catia Laranjo... read more →
Swick fans, you should grab this one, especially if you’re loving chilled reds. This usually has 20 days of whole cluster ferment and is aged in the concrete egg for... read more →
Chanterêves now owns five hectares, but the negoçe business survives. They have access to some beautiful fruit, as evidenced through this Aloxe. For whole cluster freaks like me, this is... read more →
The enthusiastic, blunt and charming Kuniko Mukai is one of the rare female brewers and brewery heads. She works in the seaside town of Ine, in the northern part of... read more →
Cara Sur is a project of four friends, from a vineyard planted in 1950 on alluvial soils, 1500 meters up in the Andes. They tend to work with grapes that... read more →
From the village of Ludes, 20 minutes south of Reims, there’s not much known about this winemaker who makes a mere 5,000 to 13,000 bottles each year. It seems most... read more →