From the big toe of Italy comes a stunner. The vines are six years young and the resulting wine is puppy-like in energy. I couldn’t stop drinking it. Vinified in... read more →
Friends joining forces to recoup old vines to make wine is getting to be quite a trend. Great wines have ensued. Envínate and 4 Monos would be Spanish examples. Down... read more →
The 2016 vintage in Austria was the summer of no sun. But in the best of hands, some of the wines were fab. So here you go, Franz’s Blauer Wildbacher... read more →
Caleb Leisure went out on his own in 2017 and lucky for him, his mentor Tony Coturri allowed him to plant all of his ten Georgian qvevri on the Coturri... read more →
On the Tarlant property six Georgian qvevri are planted outside and another three from Spain are inside. They are used to make a tiny series of wines under the Argilité... read more →
This comes from the oldest part of the vineyard. The skin contact here is six days and it’s aged in smaller chestnut barrels. The trebbiano in the mix is a... read more →
Jérémie Illouz farms six hectares and is making some very spectacular wine in Cahors that he now just labels Vin de France. This one is a blend of 50% Malbec... read more →
Marie Rocher and I met in 2009 when she told her father, the late Jean Paul Rocher, that he needed to publish The Battle for Wine and Love in French.... read more →
Travis Kauffman is creating a little slice of magic over there in his Carroll Gardens microbrewery. He’s doing a lot that I like, including growing a good deal of his... read more →
Paul does his Madlobas (white and red) in buried Spanish anforas in a marani right behind the house he lives in with his family. This might be the most successful... read more →