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Time for a Road Trip: Vinos Pijoan of Guadalupe

Time for a Road Trip: Vinos Pijoan of Guadalupe

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 terroir), another time (a vintage) and another culture (local wine traditions). Bottles of wine have brought us to some farflung places, like the mountains of Corsica, the volcanoes of the Canary Islands, and deep into central Asia.
Posted on October 15, 2023
Lee Madueno
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A Rare Thing: Margaux-like Medoc from a Master

A Rare Thing: Margaux-like Medoc from a Master

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 challenging – and quite a bit more rare – on the perpetually humid Left Bank than in most places. But none of that would matter much if Theron wasn’t a supremely gifted winemaker.
Posted on October 11, 2023
Lee Madueno
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Division: Effortless Wines from Oregon

Division: Effortless Wines from Oregon

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 hum of acidity, harmoniously enshrined in cool, restrained fruit, floating in a pool of minerality, the structure so seamless, so…effortless.
Posted on October 08, 2023
Lee Madueno
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Domaine de L'Ecu: Classic Muscadet from a Master of Single Vineyards

Domaine de L'Ecu: Classic Muscadet from a Master of Single Vineyards

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 the great, terroir-driven (and cellar-worthy!) dry white wines of the world. And yet, it costs just a fraction of what most of the others do.
Posted on October 04, 2023
Lee Madueno
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Eva Fricke: Perfect Autumn Riesling

Eva Fricke: Perfect Autumn Riesling

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 drink something from Eva Fricke.
Posted on October 01, 2023
Lee Madueno
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Peay “Cep”: An American Adventure in “Second” Wines

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 have yet another reason for you to love them today.
Posted on September 27, 2023
Lee Madueno
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Sylized image of Lucien Crochet Sancerre Blanc 2021

Sophisticated Sancerre for September

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 plots in Bué, where the domaine is based, as well as Vinon and Crézancy. Unsurprisingly, their straight Sancerre Blanc is several rungs above your average Sancerre-by-the-glass.
Posted on September 24, 2023
Joshua Cohen
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Baxter: Doing It Right

Baxter: Doing It Right

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 irrigation. It requires hands-off wine-making, using traditional techniques that the monks in Burgundy figured out long ago.
Posted on September 20, 2023
Lee Madueno
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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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