Ludwig Bindernagel was a trained architect, so it might make sense that his wines have great infrastructure. This one if from 50-year-old vines, built with a classic “tradition” 80/20 blend... read more →
Keep is a Negoçe project from Jack Roberts, who worked at Matthiasson Wines and Johanna Jensen whom I met during her time at Scholium Project. The fruit for this bottling... read more →
Recently some friends asked me to make a cult wine recommendation and I thought it was time they knew about Gabrio Bini, a Milanese architect who found winemaking on the... read more →
La Garagista and Deirdre Heekin only do wines of beauty and I offer up this bottle as Exhibit 1. Usually this wine is all frontenac gris from the Vergennes vineyard,... read more →
This is the first vintage of aligoté from Tomoko and Guillaume’s Les Chagniots vineyard in the village of Ladoix. It took all of the couple’s skill, sweat and pruning to reclaim... read more →
Looking for an easy to love wine from Etna? Go for this almost-white, raised in stainless, from Anna Martens and Eric Nairoo. Mostly catarratto and grecanico dorato, with the balance... read more →
Former Tournon wine bar owner (Carafes en Folie) turned into a brilliant winemaker when he took over his grandfather’s abandoned vineyards in the villages of Arras, Sécheras, and Ozon. He... read more →
From clay and granitic soils, Catalina has squeezed out a beautiful and complex wine. Whole clusters get dumped into a plastic bin and then are transferred into old French oak... read more →
From the village of Ludes, 20 minutes south of Reims, there’s not much known about this winemaker who makes a mere 5,000 to 13,000 bottles each year. It seems most... read more →
Marc Augustin goes beyond biodynamics into heavy mystical aromatherapy, energy-centric viticulture. His bent to the spiritual carries over into the cellar. This “fire” cuvée, 301, is a blanc de noir,... read more →