Keep is a Negoçe project from Jack Roberts, who worked at Matthiasson Wines and Johanna Jensen whom I met during her time at Scholium Project. The fruit for this bottling... read more →
Recently some friends asked me to make a cult wine recommendation and I thought it was time they knew about Gabrio Bini, a Milanese architect who found winemaking on the... read more →
La Garagista and Deirdre Heekin only do wines of beauty and I offer up this bottle as Exhibit 1. Usually this wine is all frontenac gris from the Vergennes vineyard,... 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 →
Here’s a little item for the students out there: savatiano is the most planted grape in Greece. This one is from vines planted in 1960 on sandy loam soils. The... read more →
Finally, there is some new blood near the Puzelats in Les Montils. Blandine Floch has set up shop a few minutes south of their vineyards, tending 40-year old vines grown... read more →
In the difficult year of 2018, Yasuko and Guillaume Jacquemin only made one wine, this semillon. From 70-year-old vines, it took 14 months to ferment in concrete tanks where it... 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 →
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 →