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Freddy Mugnierโ€™s Marechale

Today, we will head south from Chambolle, passing through Vosne Romanee to arrive at the village of Nuits-St.-Georges. In this village, we first encounter the very Vosne-like vineyards that directly abut some of Vosneโ€™s finest sites. Those vineyards are premier crus with names like Boudots and Damodes.
Posted on May 29, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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A new round of Goodness from Gut Oggau

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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Cantina Terlano: Salty and Mountainous White Wines from an Exotic Corner of Italy

Today, we have a selection of three of Terlanoโ€™s white wines to showcase how special these wines can be. Made from grapes that you will find recognizable โ€“ as they are grown in several other regions of Central Europe โ€“ 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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Garnier: Chablis Perfection from Off the Beaten Track

Garnier: Chablis Perfection from Off the Beaten Track

Todayโ€™s wine is a perfect village-level Chablis. Youโ€™ll notice the crisp, steely sensation that we miss from older vintages of Chablis right away. With time โ€“ and this wine can easily hang for a few days in your fridge โ€“ 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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Castello di Neive: Barbaresco Freshness

Isnโ€™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 todayโ€™s Barbaresco is designed โ€“ and priced โ€“ for simple drinking. Itโ€™s just that itโ€™s really good simple drinking.
Posted on May 15, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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Von Winning: Humble Wines from the Head-Turning Master of the Pfalz

Von Winning: Humble Wines from the Head-Turning Master of the Pfalz

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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Vie di Romans: Extraordinary Wines from the Friulian Seaside

In the small, rural winegrowing village of Isonzo in the southern plains of Friuli, about 12 miles from the Adriatic coast, Gianfranco Gallo makes some of the most unique, ageworthy and delicious white wines of Italy at his Vie di Romans estate.
Posted on May 08, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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Natural Skin Contact Welschriesling: A Wine in Context

There have been many attempts in the last 100 years to draw European borders neatly along linguistic lines โ€“ some violent, and some peaceful .These efforts have rarely been 100% successful. And so it is that wine-maker โ€‹โ€‹Zsolt Sรผtรณ 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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Vajra: The Radiant Simplicity of Nebbiolo

Nebbiolo charms us with radiant simplicity. The Vajra family, master winemakers in the commune of Barolo, capture the delicate transparency of the grape perfectly in a youthfully fresh expression called Clarรฉ J.C. Vibrant, chillable and thirst-quenching, this is a warmer-weather red youโ€™ll want to stock up on for keeping cool at backyard barbecues, picnics in the park and long days on the beach.
Posted on May 01, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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La Distesa: Vacation wine from Le Marche

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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Gerard Boulay: Move Over Montrachet!

Gerard Boulay: Move Over Montrachet!

Chavignol is special because it is here that you find the greatest concentration in its soils of limestone from the kimmeridgian geologic age. So what? Well, that happens to be the same soil type that you find in Chablis, and like there, it gives wines a very distinctive mineral quality that sets it apart from other wines made with exactly the same grape (compare, for example, Chablis with Meursault!).
Posted on April 24, 2024
Josh Shapiro
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Clandestine Chianti from Caparsa

Clandestine Chianti from Caparsa

How is Caparsa not more famous? Itโ€™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 youโ€™re familiar with Montevertine, thatโ€™s Radda.
Posted on April 21, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
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