Up in California’s Sierra Foothills, Hank Beckmeyer has made magic in the 2020 vintage. Here is another fab wine where he found the equilibrium between the lush grenache and the... read more →
For years I have been trying to get my mother (#ethelwatch) to enjoy wine instead of looking at it as the enemy. Turns out this is the only wine ever... read more →
On one of those nights when we went through three other bottles dismissing them as too young, too whatever, too carbo, too method – this one shined. In a flash... read more →
Over a decade ago I visited Stéphane Bannwarth as his stern mother looked on. He seemed a bit of a mad scientist as he experimented with his above-ground qvevri. Since... read more →
Piero Macciocca’s wines are not about pleasing people but about being true to the land. The grape comes from its DOCG area of Piglio, about two hours south of Rome.... read more →
Trediberri was founded in 2007 as a partnership of three men: Nicola Oberto, Nicola’s father Federico (who had been Rennato Ratti’s winemaker and has great land holdings he brought to... read more →
Thibault named this cutie while freewheeling or cycling and it’s an invigorating gamay, like coasting down a hill on a bike. You just want to shout, yippee! It sees traditional... read more →
Piero Macciocca’s wines are not about pleasing people but about being true to the land and vintage. This DOCG is the “entry” level of his single vineyard cesaneses, but there’s... read more →
From one of natural wine’s OGs, Theirry Puzelat, comes a brilliant example of a workhorse sauvignon blanc. He has been buying grapes for this cuvée for years from a nearby... read more →
The Texiers grow grapes just on the border that separates the northern and southern Rhône, where the limestone starts to take over, in an appellation almost forgotten. Martin, the second... read more →