On the other hand, here’s a wine that is pure Campanian grapes, made in Campania. Here you go: a charming literfull of vin-de-soif-a-go-go. Even with skin contact this is a... read more →
Our favorite zwiegelt rosé raised on gruner vetliner skins is back. This time with no SO2 and it’s just completely delightful.
Rinaldi is always hard to snag, but this one is really worth going the extra effort for. From soils higher in iron and easy to drain, which was truly a... read more →
I had heard of this wine but never tasted it until I was at a tea and champagne terroir exploration and lo and behold, it was there. The wine was... read more →
Grown in a vineyard with extremely high density, of about 16,000 plants per acre grown on a combo soil of limestone and granite. Éric has given two disrespected grapes, auxerrois... read more →
These are the pioneers in the Mosel. They went biodynamic in 1979 and were the only ones working that way for a very, very long time. Then they upped the... read more →
Another Pinon. Get the idea? This comes from his vineyard littered with glossy black silex. Is this the reason for the vibrations on this wine? The 1841 Farmer’s Monthly Visitor... read more →
A brilliant, stunning chenin blanc from Béatrice & Pascal Lambert’s clay and limestone soils. This fleshy but sparky wine goes through malolactic fermentation, unusual in that terroir. As a result,... read more →
You might know of this little-known terroir from Martin’s esteemed father, Eric Texier. Eric became a pioneer in the region known for its oddity: Northern Rhône climate and the more... read more →
From the land that I love up in the Alto Piemonte in the rarely seen DOC of Coste della Sesia, comes a wine that is so AF typical. It speaks... read more →