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 on clay, limestone soils... read more →
Pauline Broqua left her life as a sommelier in Toulouse in 2017 and started to make wine after apprenticing with two greats, Domaine Yoyo and Nicolas Carmarans. This wine is... read more →
Cyril is a farming guru based in Cornas. He has rebuilt terraces and rehabbed old plots on mostly granitic sand, planting to a variety of massale, clones and rootstocks, some... read more →
Everyone is talking about Horbach, one of the Jura’s new kids on the block. The one bottle I had was certainly promising. From Arbois, he took back the vines of... read more →
I saw Ludovic in a conventional fair and did a double take. What was he doing there? I went over to taste and as he was pouring and I was... read more →
“If there is no Syrah, my name is Bobby,” wrote winemaker Grégoire Perron. I bought this at a Paris shop and was promised no mouse, “At least on the first... read more →
This is from Yann Bertrand’s negoçe line of wines and it is just gorgeous—as really all his wines are. It's rare to find a Saint Amour — everyone’s favorite wine... read more →
This starts in stainless steel and then goes into foudres. “One of the best ways to bring wines back to reality,” Théo told me. From loess soil, the grapes are... read more →
I am usually bored by pinot blanc but this is one to change my mind. Direct press with some whole bunches added which probably adds to that enlivening touch of... read more →
Marcel's son Matthew Deiss has brought his own fine sensibility to the family domaine. I particularly resonated with this field blend from the Gruenspiel—a vineyard of granitic, sandstone and gneiss... read more →