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Von Winning: Humble Wines from the Head-Turning Master of the Pfalz

Von Winning: Humble Wines from the Head-Turning Master of the Pfalz

Certain producers manage to completely alter your conception of a wine region, while still remaining true to their local traditions and terroirs. An example that comes to mind is Gravner. Indeed, these producers are almost always great, and often end up becoming the reference-point producer of the region.
Posted on May 12, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Vie di Romans: Extraordinary Wines from the Friulian Seaside

In the small, rural winegrowing village of Isonzo in the southern plains of Friuli, about 12 miles from the Adriatic coast, Gianfranco Gallo makes some of the most unique, ageworthy and delicious white wines of Italy at his Vie di Romans estate.
Posted on May 08, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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Natural Skin Contact Welschriesling: A Wine in Context

There have been many attempts in the last 100 years to draw European borders neatly along linguistic lines – some violent, and some peaceful .These efforts have rarely been 100% successful. And so it is that wine-maker ​​Zsolt Sütó finds himself on the Slovak side of the border with Hungary, even though he, like a majority of his co-villagers, are Hungarian speakers.
Posted on May 05, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Vajra: The Radiant Simplicity of Nebbiolo

Nebbiolo charms us with radiant simplicity. The Vajra family, master winemakers in the commune of Barolo, capture the delicate transparency of the grape perfectly in a youthfully fresh expression called Claré J.C. Vibrant, chillable and thirst-quenching, this is a warmer-weather red you’ll want to stock up on for keeping cool at backyard barbecues, picnics in the park and long days on the beach.
Posted on May 01, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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La Distesa: Vacation wine from Le Marche

Today we offer the wines of one of our favorite producers, La Distesa. We love them because their approach in their small vineyards is to treat them like a natural garden, and these are vines that grow among fava beans and wild mint. We also love how they make their wines: according to deep traditions. 
Posted on April 28, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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Gerard Boulay: Move Over Montrachet!

Gerard Boulay: Move Over Montrachet!

Chavignol is special because it is here that you find the greatest concentration in its soils of limestone from the kimmeridgian geologic age. So what? Well, that happens to be the same soil type that you find in Chablis, and like there, it gives wines a very distinctive mineral quality that sets it apart from other wines made with exactly the same grape (compare, for example, Chablis with Meursault!).
Posted on April 24, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Clandestine Chianti from Caparsa

Clandestine Chianti from Caparsa

How is Caparsa not more famous? It’s a producer doing everything right in Chianti, and one of our absolute favorites.
They are located in Radda, for many drinkers the best village in Chianti, known for its high-energy wines with gushing red fruit. If you’re familiar with Montevertine, that’s Radda.
Posted on April 21, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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Minerals and More from Muscadet

Minerals and More from Muscadet

Upon the mineral-rich foundations of Muscadet – thick soils filled with granite and gneiss – lying at the far west of the Loire Valley you find the Domaine Les Trois Toits. Here, the domaine practices that mix of tradition and innovation that is producing some of today’s most exciting wines.
Posted on April 14, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Marie Courtin: Beauties with Bubbles

Marie Courtin: Beauties with Bubbles

Often, Champagne is used to celebrate events like weddings or New Year's Eve — things that are far too scarce these days. But the Champagnes of Marie Courtin bursts with such joie de vivre that they provide a different sort of celebration: of the Champagnes themselves, and the special terroirs that produce it.
Posted on April 10, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Jean-Luc Jamet: Northern Rhones with Bottle Age

Jamet is a giant of a name in Cote Rotie. It’s one of a tiny handful of domaines that have been bottling wines consistently since the 1970s, sticking for the most part to a traditionalist regime. But in 2013 a big change occurred.
Posted on April 07, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Hervé Villemade: Natural and Historic

In the history of natural wine, Hervé Villemade plays a key role. It was by importing these wines to the United States that Joe Dressner helped pave the way for the natural wine movement that exploded across the country.
Posted on April 03, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Pernot’s Bourgogne “Cote d’Or”: The World’s best Chardonnay value?

Pernod likes to make tense, pure Chardonnay. He uses little or no batonnage. There is little new oak, and none is used for the Bourgogne Blanc. The idea is to give you pure, unadulterated Puligny-esque pleasure. It does not show the intense power and structure of a Folatieres (Pernot makes a brilliant one), but it does show the great fruit quality that can emerge from these slopes.
Posted on March 31, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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