This is Bruno’s young vine grolleau. Given a short maceration and raised for 6 months in vat, this is fresh and quite ripe at 13%. Yup, there’s a little skunk... read more →
When I tasted Xavier Weisskopf’s line up at the Bio show, I thought, where have these been? Apparently on the west coast! There they get to drink the gorgeous côt.... read more →
This one grew on me the longer it was open, but it caught my attention initially for it’s textural velvet, apparent structure and food-worthy acidity. Lots of life and does... read more →
I drank a lot of this pet’nat last month and never tired of it. There’s a crisp snap to the wine, always refreshing. And even better out of magnums. Glou.... read more →
The regular cuvée of Marc Olivier is still only $13, but a few more dollars gets you spectacular bottlings. Like this one from fractured gneiss. It’s lush, saline, deep, refreshing.... read more →
The god of red wine shone down on melon-master Marc Ollivier in this vintage, and I’ll be extolling the virtues of all of his cuvées, but let’s start here with... read more →
Claude and his son Etienne work in a part of the Loire full of forest. Here is a different expression of sauvignon blanc than the Quartz (to the right). From... read more →
Like the man, Mark Angéli’s wines are a peaceful journey into sensibility. The La Lune, both the regular and the one raised in amphore is a blend from three vineyards... read more →
Vince Marie is out of the biodynamic and slightly crazy (in a good way) school of Patrick Meyer and Gerard Schueller, Alsace campus. Which means this is not a man... read more →
Reynald comes out of the Claude Courtois lineage of winemaking. That means he doesn’t do carbonic. His wines are traditional, destemmed, crushed and raised in old wood. In the barely... read more →