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 →
Yes, you can actually spend this little and have an incredible vintage and ageable bubble. This wine is a blend from two vineyards planted in 2008: “Mataró” for Monastrell and... read more →
With a laugh, Hardy might tell you as a winemaker he’s “banking on the losers,” but this wine is no loser. Familiar is blended from five of the seven vineyards... read more →
Hardy Wallace is making delicious wines that are beautiful, friendly, honest, smiling extensions of his own nature. And this one is what I think of as his rock-solid flagship. Whole cluster,... read more →
Conceived as the b-side to his Funky Drummer, the grapes for this wine come from volcanic soiled plots, around 3000 feet up. Young mourvèdre comes from near Camino. Mature syrah... read more →
Here we have Hank’s typically perverse logic: leave the oak out of the zin and chardo, barrel ferment the rosé. The Suma Kaw fruit was barrel fermented in puncheons and... 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 →
In an ocean of this season's rosés, none spoke to me. Then this came along. In 2019, Hank’s wines were gorgeous, and this rosé is a perfect example of grapes... read more →
Another knockout from Hank Beckmeyer. This foot-stomped number struck me as California red at its best. Beautiful with blushes and smiles. Rose petals and that gentle pomegranate character that I... read more →
A friend and I drank this in the backyard of his East Village apartment. I could see why he was so enthused. This is a terrific little wine from Los... read more →