By Jeff Patten
This is Chateauneuf-du-Pape how it is meant to be – a wine that is deep, complex and immersive, filling the senses, but not overwhelming them. It is a wine that...
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By Lee Madueno
Today, we offer to you a producer that is widely considered one of the best, and often the very best, of Gigondas: Santa Duc. They are a very old name...
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By Lee Madueno
As most of you know by now, we believe that wine offers adventure. Every time you open a bottle of wine, it’s like you are traveling to another place (a...
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By Lee Madueno
Michel Theron, the one-man show behind Clos du Jaugueyron, can be applauded simply for his small scale of production. Or for his commitment to biodynamic farming, which is far more...
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By Lee Madueno
Truly talented people have a knack for making their best work look effortless. Likewise, Division's wines make it seem like all Oregon should be affordable and exquisite. The wines share a taut...
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By Lee Madueno
Muscadet—like Burgundy, Champagne, the Mosel, Piedmont, and a few other wine regions of the world—has become known for the terroir of individual parcels. At its best, Muscadet is one of...
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By Lee Madueno
Autumn is here, and that means it’s time to drink Riesling. Not sweet Riesling – we’ll get to that when the weather cools off some more – but something dry. Let’s...
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By Lee Madueno
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...
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By Joshua Cohen
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...
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By Lee Madueno
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...
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By Lee Madueno
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...
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By Joshua Cohen
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...
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By Lee Madueno
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...
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