Transplanted Burgundian Louis-Antoine has been part of Chile’s CPR and there are now signs of life. This wine is from 70-year-old vines in Truquilemu in Maule and those grapes are... read more →
Georgia’s most well-known red grape shines here at 12.5 alcohol. Keep it open for days, and that blowsy zinfandel likeness calms, like a lovely building in the middle of some... read more →
From everyone’s favorite mustachioed vigneron comes Les Houx, previously known as Hermines d’Or. This is quintessential muscadet, and muscadet is a quintessential TFL wine. The vines are over 70-years- old... read more →
Sure, I listed this wine in November but it bears repeating. This is your party wine for the season. It’s totally satisfying in that warm way of the south of... read more →
This is the third wine of Jeff Coutelou’s that I’ve recommended in two issues. A fan? I should say. This drinks a little tough and rough and shows alcohol, but... read more →
It doesn’t take much for a muscadet lover to love this wine from one of the two organic producers in the Basque. Its full of Altantic salinity and vibrates in... read more →
Having worked at both Prieuré Roch and Domaine de Chassorney gives a fair idea of the lineage Nicolas Testard comes from. He’s got 11 hectares in Saint-Étienne-la-Varenne, about a 17-minute... read more →
The Caslot siblings are gifts to the wine world, as are their wines. The value for the quality of the work over the amount of land they have (quite a... read more →
This is the second wine I’ve written about from Pierre Michelland, and just in time for rosé season. This one gets the cement treatment which turns into my kind of... read more →
Let’s hear it for fine and thoughtful vignerons who always make wine for the people. This is their bone-dry, stellar sparkling: 100% chenin, vintage 2004. It stays on the lees... read more →