There’s an enclave of winemakers clustered in the Ardeche who work with the kind of cold carbonic maceration used by the early natural winemakers. There, Manuel Cunin and Vincent Fargier... 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 →
Remember the colorful graffiti bottle? That is in the past. Now as Texier’s basic wine we have a not-so-basic Chat Fou. It’s just shy of intense with a quiet grip... 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 →
Hervé Souhaut’s first vintage from this reclaimed vineyard in Saint Joseph, the 2012, is just about sold out. You’ll be lucky to find some on restaurant lists. It’s beautiful. I... 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 →
Wonderful wine values, classy stuff, can come from the Collines Rhodaniennes of the Rhône (mostly around Vienne on east side of the Rhône River). There’s even some lovely viognier, which... read more →
Every cuvee from the 2018 vintage from Miquettes is a great success. This is a pure syrah from 40-year-old vines on granite and black mica schist, from a plot of... 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 →
Paul does his Madlobas (white and red) in buried Spanish anforas in a marani right behind the house he lives in with his family. This might be the most successful... read more →