Here’s a little item for the students out there: savatiano is the most planted grape in Greece. This one is from vines planted in 1960 on sandy loam soils. The... read more →
If you had earlier vintages of the Dagamó, you’ll see a dramatic evolution from that heavy extraction to this zippy soif. Here the fruit is vinified in 8 hl terracotta... read more →
Finally, there is some new blood near the Puzelats in Les Montils. Blandine Floch has set up shop a few minutes south of their vineyards, tending 40-year old vines grown... read more →
Gómez and his daughter Carmen work in the Sierra Morena, an hour north west of Cordoba, outside of the official Jerez zone but firmly in the sherry tradition. The vines,... 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 →
In the difficult year of 2018, Yasuko and Guillaume Jacquemin only made one wine, this semillon. From 70-year-old vines, it took 14 months to ferment in concrete tanks where it... 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 →
The white chinuri grapes come from the family’s home vineyard and the red tavkveri from a neighbor's in Kartli. The tavkveri is destemmed and pressed. Seven days into fermentation, in... read more →
The syrah from Hank and the Suma Kaw vineyard is always memorable but this new effort might be a tad more spectacular. As usual, the whole cluster fruit is foot... read more →
If you drink this, you’ll feel good too! Fred Cossard is based in Burgundy but the grapes for this wine are from fifty-year-old savagnin vines planted in Jurassic marls near... read more →