Every year, Steve Edmunds manages to make great wine and this 2013, a 1⁄2 grenache blend, is a pure example. The fruit here comes from the Unti vineyard in Sonoma.... read more →
Buzet is known for mostly cooperative wine, and it’s for this reason that Ludovic, one of the sweetest winemakers you can find, has a hard time busting out of expectations.... read more →
I had this for the first time in Paris when Aaron Ayscough (a.k.a. not drinking poison) was making me lunch and I was trying to hide the fact that I... read more →
Part of the new generation of Beaujolais winemakers, Yohan has arrived. He works on 6.5 hectares. The Moulin is his largest holding, its soil mixed with three colors of glorious... read more →
With degrees in chemistry and enology, how do Sam Baron and Shaunt Oungoulian make wine this good? It IS a new world. I guess this is what happens when generations... read more →
The Atlantic, granite and albariño is a holy trinity, but in this wine we get to see the grape strut its stuff off the coast of the Pacific, on limestone... read more →
I loved this so much I poured it in Ireland when I was showing off natural- made beauties. A blend of Garnier’s two crus, the grapes have a long press... read more →
Ever wonder what sherry would taste like if it wasn’t fortified? Well, sort of like a Jura wine under flor (yeast that sometimes forms on the top of untopped-off barrels)... read more →
Brewer Inoue Seikichi gives this a 65% polishing (so only 35% was buffed off), this nears the texture I love in sake: a tiny bit coarse. The brew is from... read more →
Bravo, Mike Roth. He sourced the grapes from sandy loam over gravelly clay, central coast soils, 2.25 tons of grapes, pressed whole cluster. It was then racked to neutral oak... read more →