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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Beautiful Barbera from Giovanni Rosso
By Lee Madueno
As much as we love Barolo and Barbaresco, it’s always fun to point out that these together make up only 3% of all the wines produced in Piedmont. In Piedmont,...
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Racines: California meets Burgundy in the Santa Rita Hills
By Lee Madueno
Among the many great winemakers from Burgundy who have landed on the West Coast and are making wine here, the most exciting of all might be a relatively recent arrival,...
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Serol Turbullent: A Pet-Nat Rose Delight
By Lee Madueno
Turbullent is amongst the most charming and joyful wines out there. Produced by Domaine Serol in the little known Cote Roannaise, it speaks to the region's relaxed attitude and joie...
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Bechtold’s Cremant d’Alsace: Your Summer Alt-Champagne
By Lee Madueno
Today, Cremant d’Alsace is the second-most consumed sparkling wine in France, and it offers incredible value. The quality across the AOC is very high, thanks to laws requiring dedication of...
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The All Natural Innovations at The Marigny
By Lee Madueno
The Marigny wines often start fresh and easy but will quickly evolve into something more complex and brooding in your glass. For old world drinkers, these would not be unfamiliar...
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Le Brun Servenay: Tradition, but with Quality
By Jeff Patten
Champagne has a long history of making some of the world’s greatest wines, and they have developed an amazing range of traditions that are worth preserving. And it is Patrick...
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Kante: Fabulous Friulians
By Jeff Patten
Where are the best white wines of Italy produced? There are lots of regions vying for the title, but today we will focus in on one producer, Edi Kante, whose...
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Christina: Austrian Nature in the Glass
By Lee Madueno
The story of Christina is on the label. It represents the critters that happily cohabitate with Christina Netzl in her family vineyards. With the help of her mother and her best...
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Peter Lauer's Barrel X: Everybody's Favorite Riesling
By Jeff Patten
We consider Peter Lauer's Barrel X to be a true wine staple. We need to have a bottle of it in our fridges, just like we need to have flour...
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Peyrassol: The Spirit of Provence, and an Iconic Rosé
By Beau Rapier
Nothing quite satisfies our seasonal wine itch for Provençal rosé like Peyrassol. Peyrassol has a thousand year history, dating back to the Knights of Templar. No, they did not produce rosé for crusaders,...
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A new vintage of Fratelli Alessandria's Pelaverga
By Floribeth Kennedy
Italy is home to an endless array of tasty, lesser-known varieties and one of our favorite Italian sleeper-grapes is a small red one from Piemonte known as Pelaverga. Since the 1870s,...
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2021 Domaine Lucien Crochet Sancerres
By Beau Rapier
How good are the wines of Domaine Lucien Crochet? When Eric Asimov did a Wines of the Times column on Sancerre a dozen years ago, Crochet's was his top pick. It even beat...
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G.D. Vajra Barolo Albe 2018
By Floribeth Kennedy
The Albe is made in an entirely traditional fashion, with aging exclusively in large Slavonian casks. The cooler high-altitude sites ensure that the wine stays bright and nimble, and fun...
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