Nadia Verrua took over the wines from her father a few years back and the world has no complaints. This is benchmark ruché, pretty, deep, rose petal, put it on... read more →
Schieferblume means “Flower of the Slate” and is a blend of riesling vines of 37–60 years from blue and grey slate soils, four different vineyards. How have these people been... read more →
While it's available state-wide, I had to go to Burgundy to taste this, which I did at a little mini-tasting Tomoko Kuriyama hosted this winter. She told me, "This is... read more →
Rebula is the Slovenian way of saying Ribolla Gialla. This one gets two weeks on the skin, and it’s raised in acacia wood for eight months before bottling. When I... read more →
This knocked me out. Stunner. Petrol. Classic. More SO2 than usually found in these pages. So much for dogma. Developed a little prematurely. Lucky for us, it’s drinking fabulously now.