In just a few short years, Anne-Sophie Dubois has risen through the ranks and become one of our favorite Beaujolais winemakers. Her wines are some of the most elegant, Burgundian Beaujolais we’ve had the pleasure of tasting.
Posted on September 08, 2024
Valerie Pimpinelli
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Rozsa Petsovits is a true gastronomic rosé, with flavors of fruit (those fresh raspberries again, a hint of blood orange), spice (black pepper, cinnamon, orange zest), and minerals (Sopron’s volcanic soils come through, and the limestone of Mittelburgenland). It’s fun and refreshing, sure, but there’s a savory, slightly smoky element that makes it suitable for short-term aging or pairing with more complex fare. We’d be remiss if we didn’t recommend socking away a couple of bottles to drink at Thanksgiving.
Posted on September 04, 2024
Valerie Pimpinelli
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Agustí Torello Roca is making some of the most delicious sparkling wines you can find anywhere in the world, at prices that make them impossible to resist. They’re aromatic with clear-cut acidity, beautifully ripe white fruits, and plenty of mineral cut. To say that these out-perform many more expensive and more famous bottles of bubbly would be a severe understatement. They really are that good.
Posted on August 29, 2024
Dan Weber
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Rioja is one of Spain’s oldest and most traditional wine regions, but in its modern iteration, it offers up a surprisingly diverse patchwork of wineries, winemakers, and wine styles. Sandra Bravo’s Sierra de Toloño winery is one of the most exciting new projects we’ve come across in some time.
Posted on August 25, 2024
Valerie Pimpinelli
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Gavi, home to Piedmont's top white wine, is only about a 60 mile drive from Barolo. Makes sense. What's surprising is that Gavi is even closer to Genoa on the Ligurian coast: less than 30 miles. It's easy to forget how small European countries are, we're so used to big distances here in America.
Posted on August 21, 2024
Joshua Cohen
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Elegance is the name of the game here; Agrapart’s “7 Crus” has a fine mousse, a linear structure, and bright flavors of fresh apple and lemon, a hint of crisp pie crust and a dash of salt. Four Grand Cru terroirs, in one bottle? Sign us up!
Posted on August 18, 2024
Valerie Pimpinelli
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A few weeks ago we wrote about Ciacci Piccolomini. Ciacci, you may recall if you read the article, was a pioneer in Castelnuovo dell’Abate, a village just to the southeast of the DOCG’s traditional home in Montalcino. So it was that in this corner of the DOCG a new style of Brunello developed. Poggio di Soto is the most famous example, with Ciacci di Piccolomini not far behind. And it is here that we find Uccelleria, a winery with vineyards just uphill from Ciacci, where the salt-of-the-earth Tuscan Andrea Cortonosi produces his flagship wine.
Posted on August 14, 2024
Jeff Patten
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Since their founding in 1970, Ronchi di Cialla has numbered as one of Italy's most unique — and underrated — wine estates.
Situated on a limestone-rich hillside, the Rapuzzi family make wines deeply rooted in local tradition. While many of their neighbors grow international varieties like Merlot and Chardonnay, the Rapuzzis have dedicated themselves from the start to to cultivating historic local varieties like Picolit, Refosco and Schioppettino.
Posted on August 07, 2024
Dan Weber
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Nobody makes a lot of Pelaverga and we rarely have much, if any, to offer. Our recent shipment comes from the Castello di Verduno, a property that was split from Burlotto in order to accommodate multiple heirs.
Posted on August 04, 2024
Jeff Patten
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Sancerre is a famous enough name with such great terroir that, if you have good old family vineyards, you don't really have to do much to make wine that will sell. Uninspired work can make wines that are perfectly serviceable — if uninspired. There's always some grocery store or café that will gladly stock your wine.
Posted on July 31, 2024
Joshua Cohen
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Xarel-lo is the jewel of Catalonian wine culture. It’s emerged as one of Spain’s most fascinating grape varieties, producing wines with tons of fruit intensity and bold minerality. Once known as a blending grape in Cava, it is now responsible for some of the best white wines of the Iberian peninsula.
Posted on July 28, 2024
Valerie Pimpinelli
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Some Beaujolais-Villages locales make wines that are light and easy-going, much like Beaujolais AOC. But others are up in the hills with mineral-rich soils, and make wines more like the Crus: pretty, with silky fruit and Gamay’s floral aromatics, but with more complexity, minerality, and depth.
Posted on July 24, 2024
Joshua Cohen
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