The Collines Rhodaniennes is a downrent Northern Rhône appellation that can give us awfully good wine from its schist, limestone, and granitic soils. The region stretches from Lyon in the... read more →
You might remember this wine under the label Domaine de Montrieux. Lesné took it over from Emile Heredia in 2015, but the new name and label has only been here... read more →
Emmanuel Haget’s route was from geophysical engineer to the vines. He was also one of the lucky ones who, in 2016, was able to snag some of Philippe Gourdon’s vines... read more →
Ancenis? Where? When Sedes showed his first wine at Les Anonymes in the Loire that was the question because hardly anyone worked well in that area just northeast of Nantes.... read more →
Farmed in the tiny village of Pupillin, the wine comes from a one-hectare parcel of savagnin planted in compact grey marl. Vinified in large, old oak barrels, it stays there... read more →
This is a beauty. A blend of two vineyards with more than 40 years of age in the village of Mareuil. The land is clay limestone. There's complexity from barrel... read more →
Vincent Charlot farms about 11 acres in Mareuil, just west of Epernay. This gorgeous cuvée comes from about a half-acre of vines planted in 1955. There is a razor’s edge... read more →
Every year, Martin Texier who makes wine on the unspoiled soils of Saint-Julien-Saint-Alban, the border of the north and south of the Rhône, is pleased with the 2022s and he... read more →
This winemaker started in Beaujolais in 2008 on a tiny amount of land. Now she has branched out to negociant. I was quite taken with this velvety wine from a... read more →
Valentin Valles spent seven years working in Tavel with Eric Pfifferling and now works about a half hour away in the Gard section of the Rhône. The wines he makes... read more →