Bordeaux is a big place, and today we’re going to travel many miles from the place where those kinds of more serious wines are made. Leave the Medoc and all its Rothschild splendor, cross the city of Bordeaux, and traverse up the Garonne river another 40 kilometers or so.
Posted on January 21, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Over the decades, Montbourgeau has become known for their white wines; like the best in the region, they are complex with saline notes, waxy yellow fruit and, above all, tons of intense minerality. You can taste the terroir.
Posted on January 14, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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The Domaine de Trapadis makes one of our favorite Rasteaus, as they produce wines that are pure-fruited, chiseled, and possess none of the heaviness that you get from some Rhones. Their wines are delicious cooler-weather wine, offering fruit that is generous and warming but never over-powering.
Posted on January 11, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Drive south of Bilbao, Spain and you will eventually emerge from the green, lush hills of Basque country and descend into what looks at first like a desert.You have arrived in Rioja, and it’s not really a desert but instead the most famous wine region of Spain.
Posted on December 27, 2023
Josh Shapiro
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Champagne Growers aren’t limited to any one style, and we love what Vilmart brings to the table (ideally your dining room table): a Grower Champagne that is rich and luxurious. In fact, we recently had one of Vilmart’s importers come by the shop to indulge us in a blind tasting that featured Vilmart head-to-head against one of the most rich and luxurious wines of them all, Krug, and it was unquestionably the case that Vilmart’s was the better wine.
Posted on December 24, 2023
Josh Shapiro
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The 2019 vintage in Piemonte is on the minds of Nebbiolo maniacs around the world. Blessed with intensity and concentration, the wines of the top producers are bound for incredibly long, delicious lives and the scores in the press and the prices in the market clearly reflect this deserved excitement.
Posted on December 20, 2023
Floribeth Kennedy
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Montevertine's wines do what only our very favorite Chiantis can: they are purely, deliciously Chianti, but also perfect expressions of their limestone-soiled Radda subzone. And their new release of the "basic" Pian del Ciampolo and their mid-priced "Montevertine” prove it.
Posted on December 10, 2023
Floribeth Kennedy
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Chateau Ollieux Romanis is a benchmark producer in Corbieres. The estate’s wine producing history dates back to the 18th century but it was very recently reunited after being split for over 130 years. Since then they’ve earned themselves an international reputation with their suave, satisfying wines.
Posted on December 03, 2023
Jeff Patten
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Chez Tissot, the goal is to illustrate the region's unique terroir, and to that end, they vinify as many as 28 different cuvées, determined parcel by parcel according to the soil.
Posted on November 29, 2023
Lee Madueno
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Envínate's story sounds like something out of a movie — four friends meet at university and band together to create gorgeous wines, respecting the local grapes and traditions of their respective hometowns, in hugely varied corners of Spain. It sounds like a lark, but these four friends are making some of the most iconic wines of the New Spain movement.
Posted on November 22, 2023
Lee Madueno
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