This is the first vintage of aligoté from Tomoko and Guillaume’s Les Chagniots vineyard in the village of Ladoix. It took all of the couple’s skill, sweat and pruning to reclaim... read more →
Looking for an easy to love wine from Etna? Go for this almost-white, raised in stainless, from Anna Martens and Eric Nairoo. Mostly catarratto and grecanico dorato, with the balance... read more →
If you had earlier vintages of the Dagamó, you’ll see a dramatic evolution from that heavy extraction to this zippy soif. Here the fruit is vinified in 8 hl terracotta... read more →
Gómez and his daughter Carmen work in the Sierra Morena, an hour north west of Cordoba, outside of the official Jerez zone but firmly in the sherry tradition. The vines,... read more →
Former Tournon wine bar owner (Carafes en Folie) turned into a brilliant winemaker when he took over his grandfather’s abandoned vineyards in the villages of Arras, Sécheras, and Ozon. He... read more →
I find the wines from Moravia's Jaroslav Tesařík and his 1.5 hectares compelling and fresh. This is a field blend from a 30-year-old unpruned vineyard. This cloudy wine has two... read more →
Here is another gorgeous wine from Jaroslav Tesařík. For this one, grapes marinate on its skins for two weeks and then the wine matures in old oak barrels for eight... read more →
Whole bunches were macerated for one month in tank and then bottled early, in the spring. This wine improved over five days, an impressive feat. Beneath the candied orange, there’s... read more →
From clay and granitic soils, Catalina has squeezed out a beautiful and complex wine. Whole clusters get dumped into a plastic bin and then are transferred into old French oak... read more →
The white chinuri grapes come from the family’s home vineyard and the red tavkveri from a neighbor's in Kartli. The tavkveri is destemmed and pressed. Seven days into fermentation, in... read more →