One of the granddaddies of the Brutal!!! concept, Laureano doesn’t know how to make wine any other way than from the heart. This was a wine that stirred emotions. Here... read more →
Jean Louis Pinto is a négoce and for me, his wines have been a little uneven. Yet, upon first taste of his Brutal, I was pleasantly surprised. This fruit comes... read more →
Jo Jefferies is a British guy who lives and makes wine in the Languedoc on volcanic soils. Friends with Remi Pujol, one of the Brutal originalists, he of course wanted... read more →
Antonio Vilchez Valenzuela makes this from the high mountains, 900m up on the north face of the Sierra Nevada in Andalusia. Michael Yarmack, the former owner of Thirst Wine Merchants... read more →
From the hot-as-hell vintage of 2017 comes a 13.5 ABV grignolino charmer. Usually this tannic grape gets disrespected with the soif treatment—a quick, fizzy ferment. But when you taste this... read more →
Joe Jefferies says that the only things that interest him are bicycles and making wine. The latter shows in every bottle of his I’ve had. (The bicycles, that’s another story.)... read more →
Jordi Pérez took over the famed domaine a few years back when Alain Castex had divorce issues. Schiste happens. But Alain mentored his protégé and the spirit continues. Truly, his... read more →
Jordi Pérez makes some beautiful wines from his granitic soils overlooking the sea. This bottling is a combination of whole cluster, destemmed and crushed grapes that are macerated for five... 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 →
It was Tomoko from Chanterêves who said tipped me off to go taste with her friends Rié & Hirofumi Shoji at the Angers tasting, Les Anonymes. With Pascaline our reaction... read more →