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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From lots of different grapes!
By Josh Shapiro
Like Bob Dylan’s music – covering folk music, the blues, rock and gospel – or Salvadore Dali’s paintings – from realism to surrealism – Andrew Jones of Field Recordings has...
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The Italian Wine Tour Continues
By Floribeth Kennedy
Last week on our tour of Italy we went to the often forgotten region of Calabria to discover the great Gaglioppo grapes of Ciro. That was at Italy’s toe. Today,...
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Bright and Elegant from Oregon
By Josh Shapiro
Jackson Holstein's parents were literal pioneers, driving west from Kentucky to Oregon in a pickup truck. They bought ten hectares, and named it Holstein Vineyard. Jackson grew up among those...
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Mountain wine from... Greece?
By Josh Shapiro
f you need to pick a bottle for a group of friends, some of whom want a wine of terroir transparency, another who wants a natural wine, and a third...
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Edges Again, Red Wine Version
By Josh Shapiro
It’s not just great value that draws us to the Edges of Burgundy. It’s also because it’s in and around the Edges that vignerons feel that they can experiment. What...
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On Migrants and Wines
By Josh Shapiro
Sonoe Hirabayashi group up in Nagano, Japan. Her family made sake, fermented soy sauce, and miso, and grew apples. She came to California to study wine, completed a number of...
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Mountain Chardonnay from Marnes Blanches
By Josh Shapiro
When Pauline and Géraud Fromont founded their Domaine des Marnes Blanches deep in the south of the Jura, the region (Sud Revermont) wasn't on anyone's radar. It was 2006, the...
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Natural Wine Paragons, Full of Life and Terroir
By Josh Shapiro
Philippe Tessier is an OG Loire Valley Naturalista. Decades, now, they've been making cracklingly fresh wines full of that life force that you get from the best low-intervention wines. He checks...
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A Grower Champagne to Discover Now
By Francesca Maniace
Pascal Doquet owns some of the choicest parcels in Champagne, in premier and grand cru sites like Vertus and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger in the Côte de Blancs. His work is meticulous....
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From Miami to California
By Josh Shapiro
We are always on the lookout for new and exciting winemakers who express their unique perspective displayed through excellent winemaking chops. When we find a winemaker that fits this mold...
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Exotically Californian Sparkling Wine
By Josh Shapiro
Lots of regions around the world attempt to produce sparkling wines these days, but there’s good reason to think that California is one of the most promising. Here, there is...
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Delicious and Fresh from the Ribera del Duero
By Josh Shapiro
Ribera del Duero just might be the most unlikely place for a darling of the natural wine world to practice his art, and yet that’s where we find Goyo Garcia,...
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Sumptuous and spicy Bordeaux in Tuscany
By Floribeth Kennedy
Ornellaia is about as big a name as you find in Italian wine. Launched by Ludovico Antinori in the early 1980s, just as Bolgheri, the Tuscan coastal region, was (re-)opening...
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