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A Duo of Amazing Alto Piemonte Wines: Le Piane's Boca + Nebbiolo

Located in the small village of Boca, Le Piane is one of our favorite Alto Piemonte producers. Swiss-born Christoph Kunzli purchased the cellar and a tiny clutch of vines from octogenarian vigneron Antonio Cerri soon after arriving in the region in the late 1980s. If — like us — you find a hypothetical cross between the traditional wines of Barolo and the Savoie quite enticing, then these wines are must-trys.
Posted on December 29, 2024
Valerie Pimpinelli
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Château Simone: A Legendary Estate Two Centuries in the Making

Château Simone: A Legendary Estate Two Centuries in the Making

Provence is known for rosé, but in a hidden limestone amphitheatre not far from Aix, the Rougier family has been quietly making some of France's most profound wines — in all shades — for nearly 200 years.

Château Simone's wines are favorites in top restaurants in France, yet in America they’re still barely known outside of a small legion of hardcore fans — even though they’ve forever been on the cusp of being “discovered.”
Posted on December 25, 2024
Joshua Cohen
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Flatiron Wine School Winter 2025 Season Announced!

Flatiron Wine School Winter 2025 Season Announced!

2025 is about to be our most exciting year yet at Flatiron Wine School! Instructors Julia Burke, Annie Edgerton, and Ren Peir have all prepared a killer lineup of learning opportunities. Check out all class descriptions below, and bear in mind that classes do sell out.

Posted on December 20, 2024
Julia Burke
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The Grower Movement Reaches the Adriatic: Stunning Croatian Sparklers

Grower Champagne-quality sparklers are starting to pop up in unexpected locales. We've seen them appear in places you’ve heard of, like California (Ultramarine). Now we are seeing them in a place you’ve never heard of: Plešivica. That’s just a few miles southwest of Zagreb, in Croatia.
Posted on December 15, 2024
Valerie Pimpinelli
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New Wave Burgundy from a Bize Protégé: Le Grappin's Savigny + Mâcon

When we got the chance to visit, Patrick Bize of Domaine Simon Bize was still a culty magician in Savigny les Beaune (not yet the widely acknowledged master he became), making wines that transcended the (then) grossly undervalued village. What a chance to learn about the ins and outs of Burgundian farming and winemaking!
Posted on December 11, 2024
Joshua Cohen
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A Delicious Experiment in Burgundy: Trapet's À Minima Passetoutgrain

It’s hard to believe that there’s a Burgundian style of wine that could be considered under-appreciated, but in our opinion, the humble passetoutgrain is exactly that. It’s an easygoing blend of Pinot Noir (naturally) and Gamay, a lingering reminder of that grape’s long history in the region (until Philip the Good, very dramatically, banished the variety in the 14th century, and it found a new home in Beaujolais).
Posted on November 24, 2024
Valerie Pimpinelli
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Great Value From Opposite Ends of the Boot

There’s a little-known spot in the middle of Sicily with incredible viticultural treasures. Feudo Montoni's vines are isolated from the rest of the island's viticulture, a small oasis of vineyards surrounded by a sea of golden wheat and ancient olive groves. This isolation has worked like magic to keep the phylloxera pest away. And no phylloxera here means no grafting necessary: these vines are own-rooted and some are hundreds of years old. Scientists believe this is the birthplace of Nero d'Avola.
Posted on November 20, 2024
Jeff Patten
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Julian Haart's Skill + Klaus-Peter Keller's Terroir = A Stunning Riesling

Rote Erden comes from the Zellertal am Schwarzen Hergott, a cold parcel on pure limestone soils. Keller farms the vines, but Julian calls the harvest, and the fruit is trucked back to Piesport to be vinified and aged in Julian’s cellar. The wine is whole-cluster pressed and vinified and aged in large neutral barrels for 10 months before bottling.
Posted on November 17, 2024
Dan Weber
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Lafarge-Vial: Cru Beaujolais Made Like Burgundy's Best

In 2022, Domaine Lafarge-Vial produced simply sensational Cru Beaujolais. These are deep, finally balanced wines with a deliciously rich fruitiness that makes these a lot of fun to drink now. But they are made in a Burgundian style and have a sneaky amount of structure for Gamay-based wines, so they are also unquestionably ageworthy. If you are a fan of Lafarge, or of great Beaujolais, these are must-tries:
Posted on November 13, 2024
Jeff Patten
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Arnot-Roberts' Gorgeous Trousseau is the New California Icon We Need

Among the classic cult wines of California, we have a favorite that's especially refreshing, unique, groundbreakingly innovative, and elegant. It's also pure fun, joyful and somehow one of the most affordable — when you can get it — of them all. How is this possible? Because it's Arnot-Roberts' Trousseau, one of the new-wave California icons that has never lost its touch.
Posted on November 10, 2024
Julia Burke
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Terrific 2021 Côte-Rôtie from Rising Rhône Star Xavier Gerard

Xavier Gerard is a relative newcomer to the world of old school Côte-Rôtie vignerons. But since he took over for his father in 2012, the wines have become critical darlings. John Livingston-Learmonth raves vintage in and vintage out. But they aren't the kind of Côte-Rôties that appeal *only* to wine geeks and Northern Rhône nuts. Xavier is friends of the Levet family, the super-old school producers in Côte-Rôtie whose wines are very much on the wild and woolly side of what the appellation can do.
Posted on November 06, 2024
Joshua Cohen
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Superb, Meursault-Inspired Chardonnay from Willamette's Morgen Long

We are living in a golden age of Chardonnay in Oregon. Over the last seven or eight years, the Willamette Valley Chardonnay conversation has gained startling momentum, and for good reason. The Chardonnays coming out of this region, one of North America's most exciting and dynamic, have found a voice and become seriously compelling, thanks to a combination of better genetic material, better farming practices, better understanding, and, frankly, better recognition.
Posted on November 03, 2024
Julia Burke
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