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 one-liter size seems like just the right thing for this glou glou. Easy-to-drink but certainly not mindless. Lovely, lovely wine. Ampeleia is a joint venture from Elisabetta Foradori and... 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 →
Oriol, one to watch, works just outside of Barcelona. He is mostly known for his whites but it was this pink that grabbed my attention. Damn California! They took all of... 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 →
When I first tasted this, I thought it was the kind of wine you stumble on in travel, fall in love with right there, but doubt it would taste as... 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 →