Pauline Broqua left her life as a sommelier in Toulouse in 2017 and started to make wine after apprenticing with two greats, Domaine Yoyo and Nicolas Carmarans. This wine is... read more →
Cyril is a farming guru based in Cornas. He has rebuilt terraces and rehabbed old plots on mostly granitic sand, planting to a variety of massale, clones and rootstocks, some... read more →
Everyone is talking about Horbach, one of the Jura’s new kids on the block. The one bottle I had was certainly promising. From Arbois, he took back the vines of... read more →
I saw Ludovic in a conventional fair and did a double take. What was he doing there? I went over to taste and as he was pouring and I was... read more →
Ricardo Moreira works in the Vinho Verde region, northeast of Portugal, where he took back his grandfather’s vines. This lean and grippy wine has two days of skin contact and... read more →
This comes from Madeira’s two best old plots, with vines between 60 and 100 years old. While baga is dominant, there are about 19 other grapes in this field blend.... read more →
This is from Yann Bertrand’s negoçe line of wines and it is just gorgeous—as really all his wines are. It's rare to find a Saint Amour — everyone’s favorite wine... read more →
This starts in stainless steel and then goes into foudres. “One of the best ways to bring wines back to reality,” Théo told me. From loess soil, the grapes are... read more →
From a vineyard on the west bank of the Rhône, one that never saw chemical intervention on its blue marl and sandstone soils. This is a serious and angular wine,... read more →
My note? This feels good. I have no idea what it means, but what more do you want from bubbles. Combination of stainless, foudres, old demi-muids and barriques.