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Peay “Cep”: An American Adventure in “Second” Wines

We love Peay Vineyards and have written about them quite a few times. What’s not to love about passionate wine producers pioneering in the wild, cold climates of Sonoma’s Pacific coast? Well, we have yet another reason for you to love them today.
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Sophisticated Sancerre for September

Crochet has long been one of the best in the entire Loire, and a cornerstone of the Neal Rosenthal portfolio for over 40 years. They have some of the best plots in Bué, where the domaine is based, as well as Vinon and Crézancy. Unsurprisingly, their straight Sancerre Blanc is several rungs above your average Sancerre-by-the-glass.
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Baxter: Doing It Right

Baxter: Doing It Right

Here's a story of someone who really cares about vineyards. Who does everything to allow the vineyard to express its characters through wine. This requires attentive farming, preferably organic and without irrigation. It requires hands-off wine-making, using traditional techniques that the monks in Burgundy figured out long ago.
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Cava Turned Corpinnat from Recaredo

Cava Turned Corpinnat from Recaredo

Recaredo from Penedes has been at the frontier of high quality Spanish sparkling wines since the 1920s. It started with Josep Mata Capellades, a disgorger and winemaker by trade, digging a cellar out from under his home in San Sadurní d’Anoia. From humble beginnings they’ve made quite a name for themselves.
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Lafon’s Macon: White Wine Perfection

Lafon’s Macon: White Wine Perfection

What is a perfect white wine? In on warm evening late in the summer, it will be a wine that is effortless. It will be the wine that can be invisible: so drinkable that it seemingly disappears without notice; so unfussy that nobody will feel compelled to discuss it. And yet so delicious—and just complex enough—that if anyone cares to stop and think it will be well worth the moment.
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La Boutanche Gamay by Olivier Minot Classic and crushable from Southern Beaujolais

La Boutanche Gamay by Olivier Minot Classic and crushable from Southern Beaujolais

La Boutanche is a collaboration between venerable natural wine importer Selection Massale and some of their best winemakers. Famous for brightly colored labels depicting different imbibing humanoid animals, each one distinct to the corresponding winemakers, these humbly priced wines have become sought after for their crowd pleasing powers and natural wine converting abilities.
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Young Inglewood Cabernet Franc: A Surprise from Napa

Young Inglewood Cabernet Franc: A Surprise from Napa

Just off Highway 128 on the stretch between Rutherford and St. Helena, you would be forgiven for suspecting that Young Inglewood is yet another new face in the heart of the Napa Valley producing over-priced wines. But they are open for visits, so go there, and you will discover something very different.
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Margin Santa Cruz Mountain Rosé Summer Wine by one of California’s Brightest Rising Stars

Margin Santa Cruz Mountain Rosé Summer Wine by one of California’s Brightest Rising Stars

We have had the pleasure of watching Megan’s growth as a winemaker. Fun and funky in the beginning there was always an impression that these were made by talented hands. Fast forward to now and Megan is making some of the state’s most terrier driven wines that are as poised and complex as they are a joy to drink.
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Volcanic Wines from Lazio

Volcanic Wines from Lazio

Andrea Occhipinti started his eponymous winery to focus on indigenous Lazio grape after falling in love with the area when he attended oenology school there. No, Andrea is not related to the more famous Occhipinti’s in Sicily. But he does share with Arianna an almost preternatural ability to convey terroir through gentle and thoughtful winemaking.
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Refreshing Summer Sparklers from Birichino

Refreshing Summer Sparklers from Birichino

Pet nats are a fairly recent trend among winemakers. With the demand for sparkling wines only getting higher many producers have expanded their production to include a few pet nats. But what is a pet nat?
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Great Alsatians from the “Other” Boxler

Great Alsatians from the “Other” Boxler

Alsace lovers know that the region is divided between the granite terroirs and the limestone terroirs. Boxler is a granite specialist, and Brand boasts plenty of it – granite that is more and more decomposed as you go up slope. Brand is a Riesling that ages extremely well, and we are excited to be able to offer one today that has already spent more than 5 years in the cellar.
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Amorotti = Beauty and Nature in Abruzzo Valentini-like, for a Fraction of the Price!

Amorotti = Beauty and Nature in Abruzzo Valentini-like, for a Fraction of the Price!

We are always a bit skeptical when importers talk about new producers with lavish comparisons to the greats that are nearby. “This is the next Conterno” or “it tastes just like Raveneau” are the kinds of hyperbole we hear all the time. But sometimes, every once in a while, they are right on. This was the case when we were introduced to the beautiful wines of Amorotti.
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