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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.
Posted on September 17, 2023
Lee Madueno
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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.
Posted on September 13, 2023
Joshua Cohen
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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.
Posted on September 10, 2023
Lee Madueno
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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.
Posted on September 06, 2023
Lee Madueno
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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.
Posted on September 03, 2023
Lee Madueno
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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.
Posted on August 30, 2023
Floribeth Kennedy
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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?
Posted on August 27, 2023
Lee Madueno
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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.
Posted on August 23, 2023
Jeff Patten
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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.
Posted on August 20, 2023
Lee Madueno
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Soave: A Market Failure Means Great Values

Soave: A Market Failure Means Great Values

Soave also has its share of Foillards – a handful of producers who make great wines from top terroirs using traditional or enlightened methods, usually both. Pieropan may be the best of them. Among their lineup are two singe-vineyard bottlings from the heart of the Soave Classico zone, where old vines grow in volcanic soils at fairly high altitudes.
Posted on August 16, 2023
Jeff Patten
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Cezin Jasnieres: The Beauty of Far Flung Wine

Cezin Jasnieres: The Beauty of Far Flung Wine

Today's special place is to the north of the Loire Valley, on a tributary confusingly named the Loir (our spell check so badly wants to add the "e"). Here, those generations of experimenters discovered that it happens to be a perfect place to grow a grape they call Pineau de la Loire (this time you really do need the "e") but everyone else calls Chenin Blanc.
Posted on August 13, 2023
Jeff Patten
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Domaine de Marquiliani Risen from Ashes

Domaine de Marquiliani Risen from Ashes

When Andre Almaric purchased the Domaine de Marquiliani estate in 1954 he had his work cut out for him. Twenty years earlier the estate was mostly destroyed in a series of fires and it had been abandoned and in a state of disrepair ever since. In the ruins, he saw an opportunity to carve out a life and legacy for himself.
Posted on August 09, 2023
Jeff Patten
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