Not all champagnes get to be both fascinating and delicious. But this one from 6 parcels of land with an average vine age of 40 years, soils of chalk, limestone... read more →
Based in Courteron, just a few miles from the city of Troyes, Fleury was the first biodynamic producer in southern Champagne. This a classy and classic champagne, a perfect crossover... read more →
I tasted this one in Copenhagen and am eagerly awaiting its arrival to the United States. Manon’s land is located between Basket Range and Lenswood, and I’m impressed. This particular... read more →
So, where is Champlitte? Its general region Franche-Comté should give a clue. It’s an unknown territory just barely north of the Jura and 55 minutes northeast of Dijon. Almost extinct... read more →
Jae Chu is a talent who came to Burgundy from Seoul, Korea for love of the grape. She works out of a shared facility in Bligny and there her handful... read more →
Reynald comes out of the Claude Courtois lineage of winemaking. That means he doesn’t do carbonic. His wines are traditional, destemmed, crushed and raised in old wood. In the barely... read more →
Mike Bennie, the wine personality, wine writer, wine shop owner, motivational speaker (I’m sure) is also making wine with his friend Peter Dredge in southern Tasmania and Oregon. We don’t... read more →
From the steep schist slopes in the Collines Rhodaniennes, across the river from the famous hill Côte-Rôtie, comes this wine from farmers Anne and Pierré-André Déplaude. This is a weird... read more →
In the un-chic part of western Champagne, halfway between Reims and Paris, in a town called Crouttes-sur-Marne, not far from where Francoise Bedel has her cuverie, works Jérôme Bourgeois-Diaz. He’s... read more →
Isabelle and Jean-Yves Vantey have worked without chemicals since 1998, then went biodynamic a decade later. For me their wines strike elegance while still hinting at rusticity, a balance I... read more →