Brothers Fabien and Cyril Boisard have been making wine for a decade and doing beautiful work, so why is this the first time I’ve recommended their complex offering? Mea culpa.... read more →
Note to self: buy more Amirault and lay down. I’m struck by its age worthiness, knit and powdery tannin. The grapes are farmed from three different soil types. There has... read more →
The Caslot siblings are gifts to the wine world, as are their wines. The value for the quality of the work over the amount of land they have (quite a... read more →
The soil (as the name suggests) is their sandy plot. Their vines are up to sixty years of age. The fruit is raised in tank, never seeing wood, resulting in... read more →
From a 9-hectare estate, made by the Boisard boys. The vines are over 30 years old from gravely soils. Aged in barrel for eight months, and as I’ve tasted these... read more →
Guoin’s wines are always quiet and shy and loving. The prestige, from older vines up to 80 years, is aged in wood, but never woody. Buy a bunch and give... read more →
Some of the Guion are my new house wines. There is a very clear progression in them from simple delicious to more serious to wow. This cuvée, between the two... read more →
While there are plenty of cartoonish labels out there that signal their naturalness, here’s one that refuses to fly the flag. Yet it's a wine worthy of any cab franc... read more →
If you don’t know this domaine, you should. This one is their least expensive cuvée. Soft, easy tannin and strawberry. At this price, well could be the season’s red party... read more →