Elodie Aubert & Raphaël Gonzales’ grapes come from steep slopes and limestone soils. The wine is aged in concrete and comes out fresh, deep, really deep, super satisfying in the... read more →
Valentin Valles spent seven years working in Tavel with Eric Pfifferling and now works about a half hour away in the Gard section of the Rhône on clay, limestone soils... read more →
Tavel, generally known for its shitty rosés, is on the rise! This producer in that besmirched appellation is proof. Finally, there is someone else other than the rare few, such... read more →
The Texiers grow grapes just on the border that separates the northern and southern Rhône, where the limestone starts to take over, in an appellation almost forgotten. Martin, the second... read more →
Maca and Thomas made this wine from a mix of adjacent vineyards of granitic soils. The cinsault and carignan grapes are co-fermented and macerated on the skins for a brief... read more →
Vigneron Eric Texier is helping out here as the wine whisperer for this domain that works 5.6 ha out of their 56. The wine begins its life in a partial... read more →
2018 was a difficult year throughout France, mildew got the better of many grapes, especially grenache. Cinsault was spared and while yields were tiny, Axel Prufer was able to make... read more →
The Guarilihue region of Itata was long known for its small plots of hilly, fabulous terroir. That’s the homeland for Tinajacura’s fruit. This wine is made with old, own-rooted cinsault... read more →
At my first taste I wrote, “Hello old-fashioned deliciousness.” The fruit comes from Martin’s oldest vines in Saint-Julien which were planted in the 1950s on limestone and marl. It’s partially... 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 →