The muscat and the torrontel ferment on the skins with a maceration that lasts 60 days; 20% of país juice is then added with the skins of their other white... read more →
Mike Bennie, the wine personality, wine writer, wine shop owner, motivational speaker (I’m sure) is also making wine with his friend Peter Dredge in southern Tasmania and Oregon. We don’t... read more →
Caleb Leisure fell in love with qvevri and bought several in Georgia and planted them in Tony Coturri’s winery. This was his 3rd vintage and it’s beautiful. Grapes come from... read more →
Hardy Wallace is making delicious wines that are beautiful, friendly, honest, smiling extensions of his own nature. And this one is what I think of as his rock-solid flagship. Whole cluster,... read more →
Marie Rocher and I met in 2009 when she told her father, the late Jean Paul Rocher, that he needed to publish The Battle for Wine and Love in French.... read more →
Macarena Del Río and Thomas Parayre are making some of the most talked about wines of Chile. They work multiple vineyards from Maule to Itata, but this one mesmerized me.... read more →
I’ve been a believer in wines from Chanterêves since my first visit to their Savigny winery in 2014, the vintage of this wine. It was then I tasted this particular... read more →
Archil Guniava has two hectares of grapes in Imereti, Georgia. He’s a beautiful farmer and winemaker. This krakhuna also includes minute bits of tsitska and tsolikouri and enjoyed the full... read more →
Given all the attention focused on their beautiful reds, the white wines of D&R are so often overlooked, which is kind of a tragedy. That’s why I’m grateful for Trevor... read more →
The farm started making wine in 2015 and with such style. I like these wines. First it was the grillo, then the macerated blend and now this—a Terre Siciliane that’s... read more →