Gut Oggau is amongst the most celebrated names in the world of natural wine. Their distinctly labeled bottles are well known to wine aficionados of all stripes, from natural wine geeks to the sommelier set. Their journey into the natural side of wine is not unfamiliar but it is worth repeating.
Posted on May 26, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Today, we have a selection of three of Terlano’s white wines to showcase how special these wines can be. Made from grapes that you will find recognizable – as they are grown in several other regions of Central Europe – they nonetheless stand out for providing mountainous saline twist that you will get from nowhere else on Earth:
Posted on May 22, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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Today’s wine is a perfect village-level Chablis. You’ll notice the crisp, steely sensation that we miss from older vintages of Chablis right away. With time – and this wine can easily hang for a few days in your fridge – the other things that we love about Chablis start to come to the surface, like oyster shell and iodine.
Posted on May 19, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Isn’t Barbaresco for long-term cellaring? Well, tell that to the Piedmontese themselves, who happily gulp down young Barbaresco all the time for its delicious fruit, no decanting required. Or at least some Barbaresco. Yes, you would normally collect and cellar single Cru Barbaresco and other top bottlings, but today’s Barbaresco is designed – and priced – for simple drinking. It’s just that it’s really good simple drinking.
Posted on May 15, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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Certain producers manage to completely alter your conception of a wine region, while still remaining true to their local traditions and terroirs. An example that comes to mind is Gravner. Indeed, these producers are almost always great, and often end up becoming the reference-point producer of the region.
Posted on May 12, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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There have been many attempts in the last 100 years to draw European borders neatly along linguistic lines – some violent, and some peaceful .These efforts have rarely been 100% successful. And so it is that wine-maker Zsolt Sütó finds himself on the Slovak side of the border with Hungary, even though he, like a majority of his co-villagers, are Hungarian speakers.
Posted on May 05, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Today we offer the wines of one of our favorite producers, La Distesa. We love them because their approach in their small vineyards is to treat them like a natural garden, and these are vines that grow among fava beans and wild mint. We also love how they make their wines: according to deep traditions.
Posted on April 28, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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How is Caparsa not more famous? It’s a producer doing everything right in Chianti, and one of our absolute favorites.
They are located in Radda, for many drinkers the best village in Chianti, known for its high-energy wines with gushing red fruit. If you’re familiar with Montevertine, that’s Radda.
Posted on April 21, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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We tend to think of European wines as being “Old” and Californian wines as being “New”. Occasionally, of course, we crash this stereotype by writing stories about old legends from Napa that produced brilliant Cabernets in the 1960s and 1970s that are still delicious today. Today, though, we want to poke at this stereotype from a different angle: central coast Pinot Noir.
Posted on April 17, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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