Want to flip people out? Give a sancerre lover this and tell them it’s the same grape. This is a big load of love from a sensitive winemaker in South... read more →
Every time I taste this ol’ Familiar, I am reminded what a great little wine this is. At about 12.5% ABV, it is a blend from five vineyards which stretch... read more →
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 →
Glou-glou deliciousness! Didn’t I always say that grolleau and côt = pineau d’aunis? I think so. Here it’s easy and thirst quenching. When it’s hot and you are just tired... 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 →
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 →
David slaves in biodynamics in the cold village of Trépail. One parcel for this plot was planted in 1957 the other in 1968. This is entirely from the 2009 vintage... read more →
Claude and his son Etienne work in a part of the Loire full of forest. Here is a different expression of sauvignon blanc than the Quartz (to the right). From... read more →