What a gorgeous pet’nat this is. It’s a blend of red (60% tavkveri) and white grapes (40% chinuri), so who knows why it’s called a tavkveri, but who cares. Born... read more →
Jarad Hadi, born and raised in Oregon, educated in wine in Bordeaux, is now making quite interesting wine in his home state. From the Tualatin area, from dry-farmed vines, this... read more →
A gorgeous beaujo from a winemaker I’ve been tracking for a few years. Laura Lardy’s father and brother are both vignerons but for me, she’s the talent of the family.... read more →
A blurring of the boundaries between wine and cooking, between yin and yang, can make you question relationships. You’ll get all of this in this rare bottling made for Patagonia... read more →
Diego Losada had a guitar habit and a science education. If you’re going to head for zero/zero winemaking, the coupling of those talents is spectacular preparation. He rents 15 parcels... read more →
Gustavo has been making wine from his family’s vines for over a decade. This bottling is from youngish vines in San Juan. He was trained in conventional biodynamics (Benziger) but... read more →
Maca and Thomas made this wine from a mix of adjacent vineyards of granitic soils. The cinsault and carignan grapes are co-fermented and macerated on the skins for a brief... read more →
This wine comes from a crazy, high altitude vineyard of vines that look like little trees. The grapes were destemmed then cofermented for 5 days in wood vats and then... read more →
Go and drink or go and get drunk, no matter which way you interpret these words, this wine will serve you well. Did merlot ever taste this good? Camille &... read more →
From a 200-year-old granitic soil vineyard located in Nacimiento in Bío-Bío, the wine is destemmed, fermented whole berry, pressed off then aged in 10-year-old beechwood (rauli) barrels where it stays... read more →