On one of those nights when we went through three other bottles dismissing them as too young, too whatever, too carbo, too method – this one shined. In a flash... read more →
Another electric wine from Milan. Pressed directly, about 10% of the juice gets a few days of skin contact. The wine is raised in bigger old barrels from local oak... read more →
A new kid on the block who has just snagged a long-term rental of more than 5 hectares of old gamay vines in the Morgon and Fleurie crus. These are... read more →
Over a decade ago I visited Stéphane Bannwarth as his stern mother looked on. He seemed a bit of a mad scientist as he experimented with his above-ground qvevri. Since... read more →
Piero Macciocca’s wines are not about pleasing people but about being true to the land. The grape comes from its DOCG area of Piglio, about two hours south of Rome.... read more →
Fabio Gea doesn’t get any more sane as the years go by, but the wines I believe get better and better. My first sip of this was a complete wow.... read more →
Piero Macciocca’s wines are not about pleasing people but about being true to the land and vintage. This DOCG is the “entry” level of his single vineyard cesaneses, but there’s... read more →
From one of natural wine’s OGs, Theirry Puzelat, comes a brilliant example of a workhorse sauvignon blanc. He has been buying grapes for this cuvée for years from a nearby... read more →
The Deiss family inspired Alsace to great things, believing in the place more than the grapes. That's why they say, to hell with mono-variety. Here's one case of that using... read more →
Bastian Wolber, a German, moved to Burgundy and has been pushing the envelope in a few ways; bringing in German spätburgunder to vinify on Burgundy soil. And then there's this,... read more →