By Lee Madueno
Beatriz founded Barco del Corneta in La Seca, the dusty heartland of Rueda, to rescue the grape from industrial anonymity. Joined by winemaker Manuel Cantalapiedra, a former classical pianist who...
By Lee Madueno
As serious as they are about farming and wine making the wines are all about fun and celebration. As traditionally Piemonte as anything out there but on the light hearted...
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By Lee Madueno
In a basement, somewhere in Orinda, California, two close friends are crafting some of California's most exciting natural wines. With Les Lunes and Populis, Diego and Shaunt have shown what you...
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By Beau Rapier
Among the many great winemakers from Burgundy who have landed on the West Coast, the most exciting of all might be the most recent arrival: Etienne de Montille. His wines...
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By Lee Madueno
Catharina Sadde was not originally planning to become a winemaker. She was studying gastronomy while working in restaurants in her native Dresden, Germany when she got bit by the wine...
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By Lee Madueno
Tucked into Mountains of the same name, Jura flanks France’s eastern side on Switzerland's border. Gifted with rugged natural beauty, idyllic villages dot the landscape filled with some of the...
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By Ousi Li
The taut hum of acidity is harmoniously enshrined in supple fruit, floating in a pool of minerality, the structure so seamless, so effortless. It makes you ask: Why isn't it...
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By Lee Madueno
Of all of France's many heralded wine growing regions, few if anyone would clock Alsace as a hub of innovation, filled with young winemakers radically diverging from the status quo.
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By Beau Rapier
We love island wines, and we love wines grown on volcanoes. Therefore it stands to reason that we especially love wine from volcanic islands . . . and we do!
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By Beau Rapier
“It’s a hell of a value” -Josh Raynolds, Vinous
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By Ousi Li
Pierre was also one of the first in his region to begin isolating individual vineyards and terroirs and bottling them separately. His attention to the soil and the land and...
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By Beau Rapier
Here’s a common wine world question: does Sauvignon Blanc age well? The answer is a resounding yes.
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By Lee Madueno
The four orange wines below are amongst the most unique wines I’ve had the pleasure to taste. They are the product of extremely hardworking folks with generational thinking in mind....
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By Beau Rapier
The good news is that we have secured a nice quantity; the bad news is that no matter what, we never have enough.
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