Insider White Wine Alert!
By Daniel Kihara
Marie-Lise & Thomas Batardiere are not household names. How could they be? Thomas only farms 3.5 hectares of vines in total! That doesn’t leave much wine to ship to magazines...
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San Lorenzo: Mountain Nebbiolo from an Ancient Convent
By Daniel Kihara
When wine lovers think Nebbiolo, they think Piedmont—Barolo, Barbaresco, and the rolling hills of the Langhe. More adventurous wine lovers are also aware of the more mountainous Nebbiolo that is...
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Lopez de Heredia: Wines that Slow the Clock
By Daniel Kihara
Some wines feel like they slow the clock. López de Heredia was built on that idea. María José López de Heredia often says she wishes she could “freeze time,” and...
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Rejoice! Three wines from the Doyenne of the Dive Bouteille
By Daniel Kihara
The French don't have Burning Man. They have La Dive Bouteille. And for France’s nuttiest natural wine fans – and their international comrades in arms – that’s even better. But...
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Novello's Finest: The Full Range from Elvio Cogno
By Daniel Kihara
Over the past decade, Cogno has joined the ranks of Piedmont's elite producers. No producer does that without making incredibly delicious wines – and Cogno’s wines are delicious. But no...
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2012 Grower Champagne in a Big Bottle
By Josh Shapiro
Some bottles feel like time capsules. Barrat-Masson Brut Nature Millésime 2012 — in magnum — is one of them. It’s grower Champagne from the deep south of the region, the...
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Say goodbye to my little friend: the end of Krug Grand Cuvee 375s
By Josh Shapiro
What makes Krug GC so special? There's really no other NV like it. Krug has the deepest library of reserve wines -- made up of some of the greatest wines...
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A Jewel of Abruzzo (and a Pal of Valentini): Trebbiano and Montepulciano from Amorotti
By Daniel Kihara
One of the most exciting things about working in wine is being introduced to a new producer and then, in turn, introducing them to you — particularly when said new...
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Capanna: Greatness from the 2016 Vintage
By Daniel Kihara
We hate to throw around phrases like “vintage of the century”, but ask 100 wine professionals to pick one for Tuscany, and 99 of them will say 2016. Today, we...
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Two Expressions of Kimmeridgian: Julien Prélat's Grower Champagne Vision
By Daniel Kihara
Among lovers of cutting-edge Grower Champagne, the Aube is on the map largely thanks to Cedric Bouchard, whose single-vineyard, single-varietal wines helped redefine what grower Champagne could be. But in the...
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Gauby: A little wine, a little etymology
By Daniel Kihara
If, like us, you are obsessed with limestone soils and their impact on wine, then your eyebrow surely gives a lift when it hears that there is a village in...
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Rodriguez’s Ribeiro Renaissance
By Daniel Kihara
Ribeiro is in the middle of a wine renaissance, and Luis Rodríguez is one of the reasons why. Old-vine terraces on granitic sands and streaks of schist, Atlantic breezes by...
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Bollinger’s PN TX20: Truly Great House Champagne
By Josh Shapiro
We sell a lot of grower Champagne in San Francisco. You know the names—Larmandier-Bernier, Suenen, Laherte, Laval, etc.. The wines are precise, site-driven, small-batch. They’re made by farmers who also...
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