Mount Etna’s ash-black slopes may not be the first place you think of when you your summer rosé craving hits, but Benanti proves that volcanic rock, mountain air, and Nerello Mascalese can make Italy’s most food-friendly pink wine.
Today, we’re very excited to offer a back-vintage Chardonnay (one that inspired legendary winemaker Jean-Marc Roulot to host Lorenzo in Meursault to pick his brain) and a current release Refosco. Both wines show off Friuli’s trademark lushness alongside a rarer minerality and sense of terroir.
Every year, we eagerly await the arrival of Ulli Stein’s stunningly delicious Rosés. These crisp, high-toned, pure-mineral wines are the embodiment of refreshment, and we’re thrilled they’ve landed just in time for the holiday weekend!
Glance at Gautheron’s label and you’d guess this is a classic l producer. And, well, sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. Gautheron is, as Burghound says, an “old school domaine” with a “decidedly traditional style.” But traditional doesn’t mean staid: Gautheron is an exciting producer to get to know. Partly, that’s down to Cyril, (son of Alain) bringing new energy and focus to the old-school approach: yields are low, farming is more focussed than ever, and the wines have both intense expressiveness and clear identity.
What to do when the heat index has skyrocketed and your heart wants wine, but your face just wants a margarita served in a vessel the size of a kiddie pool? We recommend resolving this dilemma with Txakolina.
This treat from Spain's Basque Country has a margarita's lime zest notes and touch of salt, but with the added complex minerality and long, fresh finish of the world's best peak-of-summer wines.
What happens when Barolo’s most exacting mind takes on rosé? That was the question we all asked when Roberto Conterno, the mastermind behind the legendary Barolo Riserva Monfortino, took charge of Nervi-Conterno’s rosato.
A few years in, we have our answer: he makes magic.
Just yesterday, we were tasting with an importer who didn’t know Trediberri’s wines and asked us why we were so excited about them? Where to begin?!
Brothers Antonin and Victor Coulon saw a need for totally un-fussy, eminently delicious, and astonishingly affordable wines. Thus, Petit Renard was born. The “little fox” wines are made with Rhône varieties but with the South of France in mind — easy, breezy blends made with the same careful viticulture and winemaking techniques as the Coulon family’s most expensive Châteauneufs.
Summer school has never been more tasty. We love summers at Flatiron Wine School, where professionally certified wine educators and Flatiron staff members Julia Burke, Annie Edgerton and Ren Peir, share the topics we're most excited about with all of you.
Sicily continues to be one of the most exciting places to discover brilliant new wines. A new wave of terroir-obsessed organic farmers has brought the unique and delicious terroirs of this Mediterranean island to the world and helped elevate producers like Arianna Occhipinti, Frank Cornelissen, and Salvo Foti to iconic status.
Giuseppe Cipolla might just be Sicily's next superstar grower.
Mas de Daumas Gassac put the Languedoc on the fine wine map in the 1970s with their wildly iconoclastic wines. Since then, their reds have been compared to First Growth Bordeaux, their whites to Grand Cru Burgundy — and both have been priced accordingly.
But even legendary estates want something easy to drink. Enter Gassac's Rosé Frizant, a sparkling rosé that’s all charm, no pretense, and still unmistakably Gassac.
Clara Dalzell, our old pal (and former Flatiron GM), moved to Copenhagen. She's been sorely missed! But she hasn't been any less passionate about wine. In fact, she's taken advantage of being based in Europe to do some amazing travelling and tasting and writing. And now she's going to start sharing some of her lessons -- and favorite finds -- in occasional letters from Europe.
