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Jurassic Bubbles from Tissot

Jurassic Bubbles from Tissot

The Tissot family has been making wine in the Jura for decades โ€” Stรฉphane's father Andrรฉ started the domaine in 1962, and Stรฉphane's first vintage was in 1989, at just 19. Almost immediately, Stรฉphane decided to move towards organic farming, achieving organic certification in 1999 and biodynamic certification in 2004. Today, Tissot is the start of the region, making soulful, vibrant, terroir-expressive wines.
Posted on September 15, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Lambrusco Passion Project from a Thai Boxer

What is it with Italian athletes and wine? One of our favorite new producers in Piedmont is Olek Bondonia, former champion snowboarder. Today, we offer one of our favorite new producers from Lambrusco, and it turns out he was a world-class Muay Thai martial artist!
Posted on September 11, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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A Family Fave from Burlotto's Garden

Burlotto's most famous wine -- and most expensive -- is their point-crushing Monvigliero Barolo. A great wine for sure, like all their Barolos. But if you ever go to visit the family in their castello up at the top of the tiny village of Verduno, you'll discover that the wine closest to the family's heart isn't even made with Nebbiolo. It's a bottle of Pelaverga Piccolo "Little Pelaverga".
Posted on September 08, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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From Austrian Tradition to US Wine Stores

One of our obsessions at Flatiron Wines is the every-day wines that you find in wine regions across the world โ€“ the wines that the locals actually drink, as opposed to the typically more expensive wines that are for export and sales. Weโ€™ve written extensively about Dolcetto in this context, not to mention more obscure wines like Pinot Auxerrois in Alsace. Today, we turn to another very fun category of these sorts of wines: 1-liter bottles of Gruner Veltliner.
Posted on September 04, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Portuguese Authenticity, with Help from Luis Seabra

Textura is a small winery in Portugalโ€™s Dรฃo region โ€” quite possibly our favorite Portuguese region for fresh, crisp, lightly aromatic whites and juicy, complex reds with a dash of salinity. The elegant, mineral-driven wines produced here have led some to call the region Portugalโ€™s answer to Burgundy.
Posted on September 01, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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The Essence of Grower Champagne

Tarlant has been making Grower Champagne since all the way back in the 1920s, when Louis Tarlant helped the Champagne AOC to gain international fame. Ever since then, the family has produced beautiful bubblies entirely from fruit they've harvested themselves.
Posted on August 29, 2024
Francesca Maniace
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The Spectrum of Artistic Expression: Wine Edition

The 2023 SKINS is a crisp, fresh orange wine that pairs well with duck sausage, roasted peach and ricotta, or just hanging out and enjoying the summer heat. The fruit is all destemmed and fermented on the skins (bet you figured that out from the name, huh) from 23 to 46 days depending on the grape, resulting in an aromatically delicate, yet substantial and composed wine.
Posted on August 25, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Burgundian superstars find freedom in the Santa Rita Hills

French winemakers have been falling in love with California wine country since, well, before it was wine country. Because even winemakers with some of the best terroir in France are blown away by what they find here. That was the case when Burgundy's Etienne de Montille of the famous Domaine de Montille set out to find his dream sites on the West Coast.
Posted on August 20, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Winning Sauvignon Blanc from an Unlikely Place

Von Winning is one of Germany's best producers. Every wine in their extensive lineup is a treat, and their age-worthy Grosses Gewachs are masterpieces of the Pfalz. They also happen to make one of our favorite Sauvignon Blancs.
Posted on August 14, 2024
Paul Olson
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A Jewel of Abruzzo (and a Pal of Valentini): Trebbiano and Montepulciano from Amorotti

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 โ€” particularly when said new producer lives up to the hype. A few years ago, we were shown the wines from a tiny, new, organic Abruzzo estate, Amorotti, and we knew we had something special on our hands.
Posted on August 07, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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Natural Gem that's ready to drink!

Corrado Dottori has been a star of the Natural Wine Movement(tm) since Jonathan Nossiter featured him in his film, Natural Resistance. But that's not why we love him. We love him because he makes beautiful wines that are wildly alive and also pure and delicious. They're fascinating if you want to pay attention, but crushable if you just want to drink something great.
Posted on August 04, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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Fichetโ€ฆ Sought After White Burgundy

 Hard as it is for his long-time fans, itโ€™s obviously fair: Fichet is as big a talent as they come and he's been a favorite of critics (including, notably, Burghound) since long before he became a darling of collectors. The good news is, we just got our allocation of his absolutely gorgeous 2022s.
Posted on July 31, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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