From the clay and limestone of Corsica’s Patrimonio AOP comes a pretty spectacular vermentino. The domaine has been biodynamic for a decade, and this wine has everything I want from... read more →
Organic since 1996. With five days of skin contact, this qualifies as an orange wine, but this one is super gentle and beautiful. Eye-catching melon with complex exotic citrus fruit... read more →
Knocked back with a TFL reader Andrew, at Kefana, the Serbian resto on Avenue C. $58 on the menu and well worth it. Loved the gentle muted, sugarless honey and... read more →
Natalino makes five different Verdicchio labels, none of which see wood. This texture here is full and oily, consider that it went though partial malolactic but also spent a whole... read more →
Old world alert! Jacqueline André sidesteps the trend towards 100% grenache, embraces concrete and thus manages finesse and elegance, even with 14.5% abv. Cellar the powerful 2010s and 2011s—they’ll be... read more →
I recently visited Paolo and we’ll talk about the Kars in an upcoming issue. But when we were in his marani (he vinifies completely in qvevri), he mentioned that his... read more →
Corrado Dottori is making some stellar wines in the Marche. If he’s not on your radar, please correct that. This skin contact number is from limestone soils and is a... read more →
This is one of those wines that grabs you and demands attention, especially for lovers of salty sherries and Vin Jaunes. Yes, this belongs to that world. Supposedly the Phoenicians... read more →
The Carso region near Solvenia is filled with fossil limestone, sinkholes (honestly) and not much topsoil. This has created a fun-to-debate issue about terroir as the winemakers have had to... read more →
$45 for a Greek white wine? If you want a white that’s going to be brilliant, sing loudly with acid, get your biggest wine geek friend to actually say, wazzat?... read more →