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 →
Forgive this terrible packaging and also for repeating myself, but a wine that delivers this much is worth repeating. What lies beneath is worthy of simple Sunday dinners and a... read more →
The 100+-year-old vines are squarely in Minervois but as the wine is 100% carignan it wears the more broad designation Côtes du Brian. Falling in love with old vine carignan... read more →
Here we’ve got those Gredos sandy soils with gneiss and pink granite in the village of the same name. The grapes were whole-cluster cold macerated for 40 days in concrete,... read more →
Jean-Sebastien Gioan starts with grapes from a mix of his vines planted in 1938, 1959 and 2007 for extremely low yields. The fermentation is started with pied-a-cuve and the classic... read more →
Put your nose here and you’re in the Rhône, for sure. The soils at the domaine have those big stone, galet-like rocks and plenty of iron-rich, red clay. The fermentation... read more →
If I had my way carignan would be one of the major grapes of California. The reason? You get a perfectly ripe and lovely wine at reasonable alcohol levels. Jason... read more →
From the granitic Gredos mountains in the Vinos de Madrid DO, 80km west of the city, comes another stunner at an easy price from four friends onto a good thing.... read more →
This producer from the Tavel area of France is a terrific find from Chambers Street's David Lillie. Christian and Nadia Charmasson are the vignerons. They give this cuvée a long carbonic... read more →
Jean Louis Pinto is a négoce and for me, his wines have been a little uneven. Yet, upon first taste of his Brutal, I was pleasantly surprised. This fruit comes... read more →