Thanks to Pascaline who dragged me over to taste with Eric Dubois years back, I’ve been following this wine even before its release. Now it’s here. Magnificent life. It had... read more →
A crazy blend of red and white grapes with floral, bacon and tannin, savory and sandy from one of my favorite producers in Emilia-Romagna.
Last year I profiled a crazy dude making crazy wine in Zona del Barbaresco who had a composter he called “the mother shit.” He likened cutting the tips of his... read more →
A 25-year-old vineyard. The wine is raised one year in glass demi-johns and/or porcelain egg-like contraptions of his own design. The wine has an iron vibrant, edgy—make that very edgy.... read more →
Vinified and aged in old wood, the wine is long and lovely. Full of a grapefruit, juicy ripe acid—all sorts of citrus threading through the wine. A zingy experience.
The Czech Republic is on the rise and Osička seems to be one of those special kind of intuitive winemakers. He works on three hectares, doesn’t use any temperature control,... read more →
Everyone loves Vince, as I will—once I meet him. He learned the soil from Alsace’s Patrick Meyer. Once the grapes from his volcanic soil arrive into his winery, he gives... read more →
Claude’s son Etienne makes this little wine from the gascon grape, rare and indigenous to their area in western Loire. It makes for a small-berried bunch that can be a... read more →
The soil (as the name suggests) is their sandy plot. Their vines are up to sixty years of age. The fruit is raised in tank, never seeing wood, resulting in... read more →
We were at the end of the Le Clown evening when joined by Lulie, the caring “wine selector” of A.T. She had something she needed to show us. Japanese merlot,... read more →