Say goodbye. This is the last vintage of Stoppa from Elena’s heritage vines, the oldest on her property. The vines are being replanted with more traditionally local grapes but here... read more →
I tasted this with Pascale Choime and Laurence Alias way back, when the Les Anonymes tasting in Angers was still edgy. I was impressed then, and still am. The grapes... read more →
This is Milan’s let’s eat and drink perennial blend and the 2019 version is a big hit. All the grapes are destemmed, co-fermented using carbonic maceration, and then aged in... read more →
Barbara and Giuseppe Pusceddu started their estate in 2000 and began to work more naturally in 2006. This is a tiny estate, all of 1.5 hectares and what a damned... read more →
Ludovic’s new releases are absolutely vibrant. He’s a strict no-sulfur guy and a believer in only releasing wines when ready, hence a recent debut of a decade old wine. It’s... read more →
If you’re lamenting the lack of real Bordeaux, this one will restore your faith. In Margaux (one of my favorite zones in Bordeaux), priced well under $100, it’s a bargain... read more →
Claude Courtois lives and works in the ‘we get no respect’ east of Orléans commune of Soings-en-Sologne in the Loir-et-Cher. His roots are deep in the back-to-nature movement—not in the... read more →
Scott brought me to his romantic cellar in the basement of an office building in Portland where somehow he manages to make really lovely wines that keep getting better and... read more →
Chateau Meylet’s Michel Favard was one of the first (if not the first) Bordelais in biodynamics (1989). A gentle soul who makes ethereal Bordeaux from limestone soils, the wines just... read more →
Thanks to Pascaline who dragged me over to taste with Eric Dubois years back, I’ve been following this wine even before its release. Now it’s here. Magnificent life. It had... read more →