Even though based in Australia, Mitchell Sokolin and Boris Portnoy have planted grapes in Kakheti where they are building a marani. While work is underway, they are buying organic grapes and making... read more →
Michael Chonishvili became a full-time winemaker in 2015 and works his two hectares in the Kurdghelauri village, near Telavi's Tsinandali micro-zone. All of the wines I've tasted wines are gorgeous... read more →
Pheasant’s Tears 2020s are glowing and this Mtsvane riveted me. Of late, Gela and John have been less religious about traditional six-to-eight-month skin contact and this could be exhibit 1... read more →
Salvador Batlle Barrabeig’s Còsmic is birthed from 9.5h in Emporda, northeast Catalonia near Girona. This was my favorite from his recent line up. Grown on granite and calcarious clay, it’s... read more →
This wine comes from a crazy, high altitude vineyard of vines that look like little trees. The grapes were destemmed then cofermented for 5 days in wood vats and then... read more →
Soif da Vsvam is a joint project from Thierry Puzelat and John Wurdeman of Pheasant’s Tears. Vinified at Pheasant’s Tears in Tibaani, this is from grapes the friends planted in... read more →
Giorgas Balatsouras works where no one else does, 800 meters up in the Delphi area of Greece (the temple of Athena and the Oracle are down the road by 45... read more →
Your new favorite grape? Mandilaria. Almost as much fun to drink as it is to say! It’s blended with the white savatiano grape which makes it perfect for rosé lovers... read more →
Originally from Nantes, Marie Astrid and Nicolas Bourget moved to Paros. It’s one of the Cyclades islands in the Aegean. Best known for its white marble, perhaps soon it might... read more →
This summer, I visited Andreas Kontozisis and his partner Aphrodite Tousia in Karditsa in the Thessaly region of central Greece. (If you go, stay in Kanalia, one of the prettiest... read more →