Especially when you see this for $12, buy a pallet of this one. I’m not kidding. These days it’s so hard to get a deal like this; with a good... read more →
Out of a sensible cooperative in the southern Rhône comes a classic: full-bodied with good tannin and balance. The fruit is dark bing cherry balanced by spice, licorice, and a... read more →
While Damien and Coralie (La Grange Tiphaine) work biodynamically at home, this wine is from purchased grapes, and is aged for 6 months in stainless steel, and damn, it is... read more →
Troy moved operations to near Healdsburg to Darek’s winery. There he makes this summery drink full of saffron and freshly fractured flavors. It’s from foraged fruit which clung to gnarled... read more →
This estate is worthy of your attention. The vines are old and ungrafted. They use no herbicide or pesticide in the course of farming their 7.4 acres. The taste was... read more →
I feel a syrah party coming on. Same winemaker as Foufoune, different soils. Drinkable pleasure, with a slightly lighter weight and higher tone.
I’m a long time lover of the Balthazar wines, both pere et fils. This is Franck’s first venture into no sulfur and a big success it is. From baby vines... read more →
Another great one from Hank. This, birthed from the cool climate vintage, blood and iron from granite (not basalt). Saline and elegant and the more I drink the more I... read more →
I stood in Jean Marie’s globular vines and felt the angry wind he must farm. I got it. There’s wildness in this wine even though it’s only 12.5%. From schist... read more →
Hank is one of the best winemakers in California today and for some reason all of his wines are always more delicious the next day. Delicious—cinnamon and honey, perfumed with... read more →