Sébastien Dervieux, lovingly known as Babass, can at times strike a very beautiful wine and in the shitty year of 2014, this pet’nat is one of them. The name suggests... read more →
Unlike Joe, Hank kept this back a year before release. Even so, I gave my second bottle another five months of time in the bottle before opening it. The wine... read more →
Grapes from Washington, raised in Oregon, released just after disgorging in November when the wine was barely born. When I tasted it in January it did have that primary, barely-made-wine... read more →
A pretty impressive entry from the Penedès from a family reclaiming the vines and tradition. The juice—based on the 2010 vintage—is vinified in anfora, the second ferment started with honey,... read more →
Having walked the marquette vines—Vermont’s answer to Alpine nebbiolo—in the Vergennes vineyard this past August, it was obvious, barring disaster, that Deirdre and Caleb would have a crop. And a... read more →
Rebula is the Slovenian way of saying Ribolla Gialla. This one gets two weeks on the skin, and it’s raised in acacia wood for eight months before bottling. When I... read more →
A very nice entry from a winery that does little wrong. Do carry on the arneis exploration to see if it’s worth the bottle it’s plunked in. Tongue tantalizing. Textural... read more →
Marina paved the way for women winemakers in Georgia and in a patriarchal society the gravity of this step is to be applauded. What’s more, the wine is spectacular. Mtsvane... read more →
Ischia, the volcanic island in the middle of the Bay of Naples, is now more famous for the beach scenes in Elena Ferrante’s novels than for wine. For good reason.... read more →
Elena Pantaleoni believes in tradition and a continuity of her heritage, the proof is always in the bottle and glass as it is with this bonarda/barbera blend. The heavy clay... read more →