Maranges is the southernmost Côte de Beaune appellation. This, the gateway to Côte Challonaise, is not on the collectors’ purview. Their loss, because some of the wines, especially those planted... read more →
The wines of Patrick Le Brun couldn’t be more different than from those of Selosse, his more famous Avize neighbor. The two are a study in terroir interpretation; the fat... read more →
Transplanted Burgundian Louis-Antoine has been part of Chile’s CPR and there are now signs of life. This wine is from 70-year-old vines in Truquilemu in Maule and those grapes are... read more →
Georgia’s most well-known red grape shines here at 12.5 alcohol. Keep it open for days, and that blowsy zinfandel likeness calms, like a lovely building in the middle of some... read more →
At the end of a long tasting this was just the refresher I needed. It’s red, dense fizz, full of diesel and herbal tannin. Lots of tannin. Not for the... read more →
Alberto Nanclares is an iconoclast in Albariño country, Rias Baixas. He boots the conventional wines in the ass. There’s lots of stuff inside this wine which comes from one parcel.... read more →
Folks, our friend Hank did it again. In this vintage of “cedarville,” the foot- stomped grapes turn into rusted pomegranate flavors, but it is elegant and graceful, as if the... read more →
Sure, I listed this wine in November but it bears repeating. This is your party wine for the season. It’s totally satisfying in that warm way of the south of... read more →
Stella Retica ages in large wood barrels for 24 months, 24 additional months of in-bottle aging and is only made in those vintages when the Rocce Rosse is not released,... read more →
Mike Roth has left Martian Ranch and that’s a good thing, because now he can develop into the vigneron he was meant to become. While he’s waiting for his vines... read more →