It doesn’t take much for a muscadet lover to love this wine from one of the two organic producers in the Basque. Its full of Altantic salinity and vibrates in... read more →
Château-Chalon is a bowl-like terroir, the most famed in the Jura. Everything made there is Vin Jaune: savagnin raised under a voile (veil—aka flor) for six years and three months... read more →
Fabrice Dodane is doing particularly beautiful work on the whites; the terroir shines through. From the melon queue to the 2008 sous voile, these should be on your scan. I... read more →
I sampled this in the States, in Slovenia and in France, and I did a double-take every time. The blend is pretty exciting. The fruit is co-fermented with 8 to... read more →
I recently visited Paolo and we’ll talk about the Kars in an upcoming issue. But when we were in his marani (he vinifies completely in qvevri), he mentioned that his... read more →
John Okruashvili is a native of Sighnaghi, a high-tech guy who started to make wine in 2009. His vineyards are in Nukriani, from a higher elevation than much of the... read more →
Organic since 1996. With five days of skin contact, this qualifies as an orange wine, but this one is super gentle and beautiful. Eye-catching melon with complex exotic citrus fruit... read more →
From old vines, 80-years or so, this is a beaut from a great vintage. Barrel- aged, for about a year. Limpid and complex with a very long finish. It’s incredibly... read more →
Škrlet supposedly only grows in one particular spot in Croatia—in Moslavina, south of Zagreb, and as far as I can tell it’s a gift to them and to us. There... read more →
At 80,000 bottles this domaine isn’t so tiny, but it isn’t so huge either. What it definitely is, however, is new to me. Riesling lovers rejoice. A riesling full of... read more →