From the Cyclades island of Tinos in the Aegean Sea comes this beauty of a bottle squeezed from old bush vines. Its maker, Jerome Charles Binda, a French graphic designer,... 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 →
Travis Kauffman is creating a little slice of magic over there in his Carroll Gardens microbrewery. He’s doing a lot that I like, including growing a good deal of his... read more →
Another winner from Monte dei Roari in Lake Garda. This is my first 100% rossignola. It’s a thin-skinned grape and the resulting wine has a coppery color. Part of the... read more →
Initially, it was a refreshing quaffer with very little flesh. There was a little hint of rose petal and vague raspberry but general narrowness of aroma and flavor, yet it... read more →
First sip of this wine that rings in at 10.5% ABV was a tad too cold. I had no one to blame but myself. However, a few degrees later, wow,... read more →
Alsace sparklers can be fantastic. Case in point, this number from Boesch. The still wine hangs out in foudres for two years and gets no dosage. But you knew that.... read more →
Istrian pet’nat for breakfast? Why not, that’s what the maker of this wine says he does. But after a taste, I get it. Strawberry aromatics dissolve into savory salty stony... read more →
The enthusiastic, blunt and charming Kuniko Mukai is one of the rare female brewers and brewery heads. She works in the seaside town of Ine, in the northern part of... read more →
The equivalent to natural in the sake world is referred to as pure sake. Now that the European-based Yoigokochi Sake portfolio has found a U.S. distributor, we now have more... read more →