On Migrants and Wines
By Josh Shapiro
Sonoe Hirabayashi group up in Nagano, Japan. Her family made sake, fermented soy sauce, and miso, and grew apples. She came to California to study wine, completed a number of...
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Mountain Chardonnay from Marnes Blanches
By Josh Shapiro
When Pauline and Géraud Fromont founded their Domaine des Marnes Blanches deep in the south of the Jura, the region (Sud Revermont) wasn't on anyone's radar. It was 2006, the...
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Natural Wine Paragons, Full of Life and Terroir
By Josh Shapiro
Philippe Tessier is an OG Loire Valley Naturalista. Decades, now, they've been making cracklingly fresh wines full of that life force that you get from the best low-intervention wines. He checks...
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A Grower Champagne to Discover Now
By Francesca Maniace
Pascal Doquet owns some of the choicest parcels in Champagne, in premier and grand cru sites like Vertus and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger in the Côte de Blancs. His work is meticulous....
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From Miami to California
By Josh Shapiro
We are always on the lookout for new and exciting winemakers who express their unique perspective displayed through excellent winemaking chops. When we find a winemaker that fits this mold...
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Exotically Californian Sparkling Wine
By Josh Shapiro
Lots of regions around the world attempt to produce sparkling wines these days, but there’s good reason to think that California is one of the most promising. Here, there is...
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Delicious and Fresh from the Ribera del Duero
By Josh Shapiro
Ribera del Duero just might be the most unlikely place for a darling of the natural wine world to practice his art, and yet that’s where we find Goyo Garcia,...
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Sumptuous and spicy Bordeaux in Tuscany
By Floribeth Kennedy
Ornellaia is about as big a name as you find in Italian wine. Launched by Ludovico Antinori in the early 1980s, just as Bolgheri, the Tuscan coastal region, was (re-)opening...
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Jurassic Bubbles from Tissot
By Josh Shapiro
The Tissot family has been making wine in the Jura for decades — Stéphane's father André started the domaine in 1962, and Stéphane's first vintage was in 1989, at just...
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Lambrusco Passion Project from a Thai Boxer
By Floribeth Kennedy
What is it with Italian athletes and wine? One of our favorite new producers in Piedmont is Olek Bondonia, former champion snowboarder. Today, we offer one of our favorite new...
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A Family Fave from Burlotto's Garden
By Floribeth Kennedy
Burlotto's most famous wine -- and most expensive -- is their point-crushing Monvigliero Barolo. A great wine for sure, like all their Barolos. But if you ever go to visit the...
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From Austrian Tradition to US Wine Stores
By Josh Shapiro
One of our obsessions at Flatiron Wines is the every-day wines that you find in wine regions across the world – the wines that the locals actually drink, as opposed...
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Portuguese Authenticity, with Help from Luis Seabra
By Josh Shapiro
Textura is a small winery in Portugal’s Dão region — quite possibly our favorite Portuguese region for fresh, crisp, lightly aromatic whites and juicy, complex reds with a dash of...
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