I tasted Gilles Ballorin’s wines at the Marsannay tasting at Grands Jours de Bourgogne, the every-other-year event (what took me so long!) Turns out he’s a good friend of Sylvain... read more →
Let me count the ways of how much I love this wine. The fruit from this came from the Vergennes vineyard, worked organically. Deirdre let this sit on skins for... read more →
Based on the 2010 vintage, this is the second disgorgement of this wine, with the additional year on the lees, it has become brilliant. Chalk, celery root, gentle fizz, powder,... read more →
Back before there was a craziness for natural wine there was the deeply dimpled, relatively unknown Jacques Carroget working quietly and naturally. This wine was crushed, with a kiss of... read more →
Troy moved operations to near Healdsburg to Darek’s winery. There he makes this summery drink full of saffron and freshly fractured flavors. It’s from foraged fruit which clung to gnarled... read more →
10% purple elderberry foraged from Wurtsboro woodlands, 90% unsprayed west Sullivan County apples of the Liberty and Spy varieties. The color of rosé, the taste of apple cider and it’s... read more →
This charmer comes from just outside the border of Beaujolais in the Macon. From 400 meter elevation of granite, this lovely wine is raised in old barrels. Here’s a study... read more →
From the wrong side of Beaujolais, meaning not inside any of the crus, comes a very, very right wine. Bruno makes this from a plot of 50-year-old vines outside of... read more →
From a single namesake parcel of 50-year-old garnacha vines on decomposed granite soils in the town of Villena, Alicante. Fermented in steel, raised for 12 months in 2- to 4-year-old... read more →
An Italian couple, architects, moved to Cataluna from Piedmont and went about hunting old vines and working with the fruit. This field blend is my favorite of their offerings. Love... read more →