By Dan Weber
Lanzarote in the Canary Islands is a brutally hard place to farm even in the best years. A volcanic island off the coast of Morocco where farmers protect their vines...
By Joshua Cohen
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...
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By Valerie Pimpinelli
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...
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By Joshua Cohen
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...
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By Dan Weber
Dominique Lucas is making perhaps the greatest Chasselas on the planet. Chasselas is a grape without much of a reputation — in the hands of less precise vignerons, it can...
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By Julia Burke
The sparkling wine we're offering today is mouthwateringly fresh with joyful, springing-from-the-glass dark fruit and just a touch of minerality as it finishes clean, crisp, and with satisfying length. It's...
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By Jeff Patten
We've been drinking the wines of Garaudet for many years, and have long admired them for their excellent value. But in our most recent tasting of the wines, something was...
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By Dan Weber
How about a trio of naturally-farmed and extremely delicious Provençal wines from a trailblazing family that has been at the center of the natural wine movement for more than 30...
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By Valerie Pimpinelli
Guillaume d’Angerville is famous for world class wines from Meursault and Volnay. But the Marquis d’Angerville is no one-trick pony. Several years ago he purchased land in the Jura, including some vines...
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By Julia Burke
Olga Raffault is best known for red Chinon from the Les Picasses vineyard, an incredibly long-lived, classic expression of limestone terroir through a Cabernet Franc lens. Their most undeniably joyous...
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By Jeff Patten
Chianti — like Beaujolais or Sicily or the Loire Valley — is a region of incredible terroir where you can still actually buy land and start a winery. Thus, we...
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By Joshua Cohen
The best deal in Sancerre this year doesn't say Sancerre on the label. In 2020, our pals at Domaine du Nozay were thrilled with the fruit from their top site,...
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By Jeff Patten
Tiberio is a father, daughter and son team that got started in 2000 when they were excited to come across some very old vines of the heirloom Trebbiano variety known...
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By Dan Weber
Great sparkling wine doesn't have to come from Champagne, but it does have to come from great terroir. Arnaud Lambert has one of the best white wine terroirs in the...
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