Hervé Souhaut farms the vineyard of a neighbor, Michel Savel, and takes the grapes for this delightful cuvée. Like all of Hervé’s wines, it’s semi carbonic fermentation, done in steel... 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 →
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 →
Every cuvee from the 2018 vintage from Miquettes is a great success. This is a pure syrah from 40-year-old vines on granite and black mica schist, from a plot of... read more →
Paul does his Madlobas (white and red) in buried Spanish anforas in a marani right behind the house he lives in with his family. This might be the most successful... read more →
Fruit for this bottling comes from the Que Syrah vineyard, planted in 1994 and sitting at 850 feet elevation, four miles from the Pacific. The grapes are fermented with 75%... read more →
From those pink grantic soils of Itata comes this beauty. 100% whole-cluster carbonic maceration in stainless steel with 21 days on skins, bottled the March after harvest. It's a roller... read more →
Former Tournon wine bar owner (Carafes en Folie) turned into a brilliant winemaker when he took over his grandfather’s abandoned vineyards in the villages of Arras, Sécheras, and Ozon. He... read more →
The syrah from Hank and the Suma Kaw vineyard is always memorable but this new effort might be a tad more spectacular. As usual, the whole cluster fruit is foot... read more →
Now in her early 30s, this vigneronne works on 1 ha and supplements her needs with grapes from friends. She is very much of the new natural wine scene with... read more →