When you’re weary of wine (it happens), reach for the fabulous dry grape soda of Emilia, otherwise known as real lambrusco. Vittorio Graziano sets to work on this by destemming... read more →
Massimiliano Croci is keen on bringing respect to his little-known area of Emilia. A sip of any of his wines, fizz or dry, amber, red or rosato will prove it.... read more →
Gutturnio is a DOC that came into being only in 2010. By law, the wine must be a blend of barbera and croatina, and it can be fizzy or still.... read more →
Taurasi is a DOCG in Avellino, not too far from Naples. Luigi Tecce took over his family’s estate when his father died in 1997. He learned winemaking hit and miss.... read more →
Oh, you want to know what I drank with the blood orange and burrata salad I made the other night? This. Always a delight. A joy and a crowd pleaser.... read more →
Before Elisabetta Foradori took over the family winery, no one even considered teroldego’s greatness. But when you get down with her bottles, you'll feel its breeding express itself through her... read more →
Magali Tissot and Ludovic Bonnelle make soulful wines down in Buzet, just south of Bordeaux. And that’s just what I remembered, when I tasted their surprising sauvignon grown on gravel,... read more →
The grand duke of natural wine, Jules Chauvet’s family vineyards in La Chapelle-de-Guinchay, still bear fruit. Some of it goes right into the famille Joubert’s cuverie. Here we go with... read more →
Every once in a while someone will ask me to taste their wine and low and behold, I’m starstruck. Coup de couer. The grapes come from a single goblet vineyard... read more →
Without a doubt Pascal Potaire is the pet’nat master. He carried the gospel directly from the late, great vigneron who popularized the category, Christian Chaussard. Of his several cuvées, the... read more →