Bernard Defaix: A tour of Chablis’ Left Bank
By Josh Shapiro
The hierarchy of Chablis is beautifully logical. When a producer gets it right, you can literally taste your way up the ladder, feeling the terroir shift and the intensity build...
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A Rare Thing: Margaux-like Medoc from a Master
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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Division: Effortless Wines from Oregon
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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Domaine de L'Ecu: Classic Muscadet from a Master of Single Vineyards
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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Eva Fricke: Perfect Autumn Riesling
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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Peay “Cep”: An American Adventure in “Second” Wines
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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Sophisticated Sancerre for September
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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Baxter: Doing It Right
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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Cava Turned Corpinnat from Recaredo
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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Lafon’s Macon: White Wine Perfection
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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La Boutanche Gamay by Olivier Minot Classic and crushable from Southern Beaujolais
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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Young Inglewood Cabernet Franc: A Surprise from Napa
By Lee Madueno
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...
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Margin Santa Cruz Mountain Rosé Summer Wine by one of California’s Brightest Rising Stars
By Lee Madueno
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....
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Volcanic Wines from Lazio
By Floribeth Kennedy
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...
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