If you want to see an example of a little mouse on a wine, the kind that doesn’t interfere, check this out. It’s got a lot of velvet, tar and... read more →
It‘s back. And it’s August, so the timing is perfect. If you love muscadet, you will love this. There is an easy-to-taste similarity that comes from granite and the Atlantic.... read more →
Unlike Joe, Hank kept this back a year before release. Even so, I gave my second bottle another five months of time in the bottle before opening it. The wine... read more →
The Atlantic, granite and albariño is a holy trinity, but in this wine we get to see the grape strut its stuff off the coast of the Pacific, on limestone... read more →
Alberto Nanclares is an iconoclast in Albariño country, Rias Baixas. He boots the conventional wines in the ass. There’s lots of stuff inside this wine which comes from one parcel.... read more →
This is for all lovers of muscadet, and if you subscribe, that means you. Lovely, it comes from the granitic soils of Cambados, where Alberto is about the only person... read more →
My favorite albariño maker, an ex-pat Californian, has gone missing. Wherever Todd is, we hope he is okay, it also means that after the 2011 vintage, the wines of Benito... read more →
Nacho works in the eastern part of Galicia, where natural winemakers are far and few. He made this wine from an old plot he inherited from his grandmother. Nacho uses a... read more →
German transplant Christoph Fischer makes a true and beautiful field blend from an old plot of grapes planted in alberello—bush-vine style—something quite rare for the ritzy Maremma. You’ll find a... read more →
This was stunning in a group tasting with a lot of tinned anchovies and good time. The table gawked at it. What’s the price? The team of four friends that... read more →