This wine has been absent in the United States. The reason, according to La Stoppa’s Elena Pantaleoni, is because of merlot and cabernet’s lack of popularity with those who look... 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 →
Buzet is known for mostly cooperative wine, and it’s for this reason that Ludovic, one of the sweetest winemakers you can find, has a hard time busting out of expectations.... read more →
You won’t find the 2013 on the east coast until the fall (meanwhile, you can pick up the more whole clustery 2012), but you’ll want to keep an eye out... read more →
These vines in the back of Hank’s house are finally arriving and delivering. Hank picked these in succession. Fourteen passes, he says. Then the grapes were lightly crushed and added... read more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →