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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Tre Monti’s Alba: Where Speed meets Tradition in the Land of Mortadella
By Daniel Kihara
If you know the town of Imola, you likely know it for one thing: speed. This is the home of the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, the legendary Formula 1...
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Time Travel with Armenia’s Areni
By Daniel Kihara
Our newsletter is about wine adventuring—taking you on journeys both far and wide to discover the world's most compelling bottles. We've explored remote hillsides in Sicily, scaled the steep terraces...
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Great Value from a living legend of white burgundy
By Daniel Kihara
You might think that Dominique Lafon needs no introduction. After all, he’s been the steward of his family’s Domaine des Comte Lafon since 1983, and built it into one of...
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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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