This wine comes from a crazy, high altitude vineyard of vines that look like little trees. The grapes were destemmed then cofermented for 5 days in wood vats and then... read more →
David Léclapart and local Cadizian architect turned winemaker Alejandro Muchada are behind this collaboration. Think of this as Champagne-meets-Andalucía-charmer. This bottling comes from 20 year-old vines planted into the famous... read more →
David Léclapart and local Cadizian architect turned winemaker Alejandro Muchada are behind this collaboration. Think of this as a Champagne meets Andalucía charmer of a still wine. This one comes... read more →
For years I have been trying to get my mother (#ethelwatch) to enjoy wine instead of looking at it as the enemy. Turns out this is the only wine ever... read more →
On one of those nights when we went through three other bottles dismissing them as too young, too whatever, too carbo, too method – this one shined. In a flash... read more →
Nika Carlson is based in Brooklyn and grows apples and makes cider in Hudson, New York. I was impressed by many of her ciders but this one was truly attention-getting.... read more →
Soif da Vsvam is a joint project from Thierry Puzelat and John Wurdeman of Pheasant’s Tears. Vinified at Pheasant’s Tears in Tibaani, this is from grapes the friends planted in... read more →
Bastian Wolber, a German, moved to Burgundy and has been pushing the envelope in a few ways; bringing in German spätburgunder to vinify on Burgundy soil. And then there's this,... read more →
Years ago, I was introduced to Michel Gahier’s fabulous wines at lunch in Arbois with Pierre Overnoy. Seeing it on the list he grabbed a savagnin and claimed Gahier one... read more →
The enthusiastic, blunt and charming Kuniko Mukai is one of the rare female brewers and brewery heads. She works in the seaside town of Ine, in the northern part of... read more →