In every vintage, Eric is the man, but in 2012, nature worked with him 11.8% ABV? The 2012s are just popping up on the market right now, rush out and... read more →
While researching Naked Wine, I wandered into the Ardeche and spent the night carousing with the band of winemakers up there. Among them, Andre Calek, Sylvain Bock, Gerald Oustric and... read more →
Hervé Souhaut farms the vineyard of a neighbor, Michel Savel, and takes the grapes for this delightful cuvée. Like all of Hervé’s wines, it’s semi carbonic fermentation, done in steel... read more →
From the Beaujolais’ Philippe Jambon’s négoce project, comes his collaboration with the Ventoux’s Denis Tardieu. According to Josh Eubank, the wine’s importer, “The vinification is pretty simple. Mostly destemmed, relatively... read more →
One label, two faces. I admit not being a fan of viognier, but tempered by the roussanne, it manages to avoid cloying perfume and segues into an ethereal florality. A... read more →
Cornas’ Thierry Allemand worked for the post office, and Serge Scherrer is the winemaking postman of Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie. Both men have white hair, one is retiring and selling off his vines... read more →
Given all the attention focused on their beautiful reds, the white wines of D&R are so often overlooked, which is kind of a tragedy. That’s why I’m grateful for Trevor... read more →
All of Texier’s hard work at Brézème has come together in 2012, so much so that he bottled without sulfur. It’s a beauty, and there’s plenty of finesse in this... read more →
Sylvain is from the Gérald Oustric (Le Mazel) school of winemaking, we’re talking full clusters of grapes fermented under a veil of carbon dioxide. That means carbo (carbonic marceration) and... read more →
From the steep schist slopes in the Collines Rhodaniennes, across the river from the famous hill Côte-Rôtie, comes this wine from farmers Anne and Pierré-André Déplaude. This is a weird... read more →