Mike Roth has left Martian Ranch and that’s a good thing, because now he can develop into the vigneron he was meant to become. While he’s waiting for his vines... read more →
This is the second wine I’ve written about from Pierre Michelland, and just in time for rosé season. This one gets the cement treatment which turns into my kind of... read more →
At first I admit, I wasn’t sure, but the longer this was open the more it grew on me, the next day and then the next. When a wine sings... read more →
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 →
Jean Marie Rimbert’s Oscar wins again this year. Even more satisfying than in the past with some ink, tar and bandaid.
Every once in a while someone will ask me to taste their wine and low and behold, I’m starstruck. Coup de couer. The grapes come from a single goblet vineyard... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →