Your new favorite grape? Mandilaria. Almost as much fun to drink as it is to say! It’s blended with the white savatiano grape which makes it perfect for rosé lovers... read more →
Farmed in the tiny village of Pupillin, the wine comes from a one-hectare parcel of savagnin planted in compact grey marl. Vinified in large, old oak barrels, it stays there... read more →
This is a beauty. A blend of two vineyards with more than 40 years of age in the village of Mareuil. The land is clay limestone. There's complexity from barrel... read more →
Vincent Charlot farms about 11 acres in Mareuil, just west of Epernay. This gorgeous cuvée comes from about a half-acre of vines planted in 1955. There is a razor’s edge... read more →
Every year, Martin Texier who makes wine on the unspoiled soils of Saint-Julien-Saint-Alban, the border of the north and south of the Rhône, is pleased with the 2022s and he... read more →
This winemaker started in Beaujolais in 2008 on a tiny amount of land. Now she has branched out to negociant. I was quite taken with this velvety wine from a... read more →
Kokkineli means light red and this one drinks like pure strawberry juice. Vasilis Vaimakis is a genius. The wines he makes have a delicious purity and speak to a respect... read more →
This summer, I visited Andreas Kontozisis and his partner Aphrodite Tousia in Karditsa in the Thessaly region of central Greece. (If you go, stay in Kanalia, one of the prettiest... read more →
Cati’s wines are immensely popular for good reason: they’re lovely. And this one is a strong coup de foudre, a love at first sight. Its back story is that in... read more →
Valentin Valles spent seven years working in Tavel with Eric Pfifferling and now works about a half hour away in the Gard section of the Rhône. The wines he makes... read more →