A nice big bottle from the still-It boy of Moravia, Milan Nestarec. The barrel-leaping monkey (that’s the way he is in the winery) of a man has vinified a wine... read more →
Aci is based in eastern Slovenia, near Croatia, about a half hour northwest of the drab city of Zagreb. Farming here is spiritual, philosophical, the land is a cell phone-free... read more →
RAW Fair regular João Tavares de Pina works in the Dão, the region south of Porto. The family has been in vines since the 18th century but it was only... read more →
For those who drink by sight instead of taste, here’s a lovely little cloudy wine for you that also happens to taste great—in Milan Nestarec’s crazy cat sort of way.... read more →
Want an example of a completely off-the-charts volatile wine that is completely compelling? The story—as told to me—goes this way. Schueller had two cuvées of pinot blanc, one of them... read more →
Winemaker on the rise, Alexander Koppitsch made this wine as an homage to sandy soils. This is an immediate wine, for pleasure and easy drinking. He ferments the grüner veltliner... read more →
This wine has been going back and forth to back and forth in its evolution. Right now it’s in an awesome spot, similar to when I fell for it at... read more →
Valli Unité is a hippie organic commune and cooperative just north of Genoa in the easternmost part of Piemonte. The wines here are made with ideals and the last bunch... read more →
Eduard Pié Palomar started to work in 2009. A bona fide oenologist who likes clean wines and old-fashioned technique, he works exclusively with anfora, some buried, some not, then transfers... read more →
Summerhill is an estate in Kelowna started by the charismatic Stephen Cipes, a New Yorker who fell in love with that part of British Columbia in 1986. Kind of a... read more →