I was about to skip their wines at the David Bowler tasting, but my friend PP made me stop and I’m glad she did. This one ambushed me; robust and... read more →
I find immense pleasure from Corbières. This one comes from a combination of soils: limestone, clay and grave. Hand-destemmed, foot- crushed and then it is stainless-raised. The best maintain this... read more →
Jean-Sebastien Gioan starts with grapes from a mix of his vines planted in 1938, 1959 and 2007 for extremely low yields. The fermentation is started with pied-a-cuve and the classic... read more →
Why isn’t this available retail? Bug your wine store to carry it because Tom Lubbe’s wines just continue to excel. There’s hardly a wine of his that’s not expressive and... read more →
Some wines fail to get the hipster card for no good reason. This is one of them. From basalt soils, from rugged terroir, it delivers a good sense of place—licorice,... read more →
This might be one of the rosés of the season for me. For one, I dig syrah as a pink wine—there’s something firm and interesting about it. Here it’s all... read more →
This was just the thing on a late summer night, when there was a little dinner but a lot of wine was desired. Even though it’s made through carbonic maceration,... read more →
The Swiss former architect also makes wines that hide from the new cool kids. Yet, like the other Mas to the left, it’s a tragedy. This domaine always delivers freshness... read more →
The poet vigneron from South Africa, Thomas Lubbe lives and works in Calce and continues to create wines that are lyrical. This one is a co-ferment of red and white... read more →
I was in Frankly Wines and Christy said, take! It only gets one night of carbonic then it finishes with alcoholic fermentation, gets moved to enamel-lined stainless (new to me),... read more →