Julien Viana took over the vines from retiring winemaker Serge Bouchez in 2014 and immediately started to work organically with an eye on biodynamics. The wines in his line-up have... read more →
This compelling wine from Julien Viana could be your new favorite sparkler. Made in méthode traditionnelle, you know, like champagne. The grapes are 100% ripe and there’s no dosage. After... read more →
Alsatian producer Christian Binner started this project a few years back to mentor up-and-coming voices in the region and to bring brilliant wines at gentle prices to market. He basically... read more →
Does chardonnay find its best self in the Jura? I think so. And in 2019, Alice Bouvot knocked me out with this: a multi-faceted expression of a grape that can... read more →
It is with great sadness that I drank this bottle of beauty from the last complete vintage of Pascal Clairet. Vinified in stainless in full carbonic, it is then aged... read more →
If a wine of innocence is what is needed, one to remind of us of life before the worries and angst set in, when we ran through fields and jumped... read more →
From 0.5 ha of Jules Chauvet’s old vineyard in La Chapelle de Guinchay, here's a gorgeous little wine with five years of age—my beaujo sweet spot. This was a compelling... read more →
Situated in Rablay-sur-Layon, Geneviève Delatte and Nicolas Bertin started out with their own small vineyard, a 1.5 ha lieu-dit named "L’Echalier" That was in 2008 and over time, they have... read more →
In 2003, Brice Omont transplanted from Champagne to the slopes of Savoie, under Mont Blanc. He now has about 16ha, planted to échalas and guyot on schist and limestone terroirs,... read more →
A gorgeous beaujo from a winemaker I’ve been tracking for a few years. Laura Lardy’s father and brother are both vignerons but for me, she’s the talent of the family.... read more →