The Dunites wine project was established in 2015 by the husband-and-wife winemaking team of Tyler Eck and Rachel Goffinet Eck. They like, but do not overuse, whole-cluster inclusion, as well as gentle pigeage, lees aging, neutral oak and minimization of sulfites. Their wines represent everything new and fresh and modern about today's Central Coast style.
Posted on May 22, 2024
Julia Burke
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Paul-Henri Thillardon is one of the finest wine-growers in Beaujolais, making wines with an irresistible balance of ripe fruit, crunchy acidity, and mineral verve. They are the embodiment of joy in a glass.
It’s no surprise that the wines are quite special, because Paul-Henri had some pretty iconic mentors: Yvon Métras and Jean-Louis Dutraive.
Posted on May 19, 2024
Dan Weber
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Dry Tokaji may be obscure today, but we think it’s poised for a breakthrough. The best examples are simply too good, too interesting, and too age-worthy to be ignored much longer. And it’s hard to think of better examples to hold up than these two stunningly complex 2006 library bottlings from the cellar of Geza Lenkey.
Posted on May 15, 2024
John Truax
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Maybe you’ve never tried Deschamps wines, and want to know what they taste like. They are certainly not piercing or thin, qualities which Sauvignon Blanc can sometimes be guilty of. Instead, they are nuanced, relaxed, and generous. Much of this is because of the great soils, mostly kimmerdigian marl, that can be found in the hamlet of Les Loges, one of the best parts of Pouilly-Fumé.
Posted on May 12, 2024
John Truax
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Wine has been made at Peyrassol for 800 years. That’s a lot of time in which to perfect your recipe. And they've got it down. As New York Times’ Eric Asimov has noted, Peyrassol makes “the archetypal Provençal rosé” wines that are “especially delicious” with an “underlying mineral edge”.
Posted on May 08, 2024
Joshua Cohen
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Flatiron Wines is teaming up with Decanter Magazine to offer all customers 20% off Grand Tasting tickets to this year's Fine Wine Encounter NYC at Manhatta on Saturday, June 8th. Don't miss your opportunity to taste some of the world best wines, including award-winning wines and gems from the cellars of 50 highly prestigious producers from around the world.
Posted on May 07, 2024
Joshua Cohen
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Today’s wine comes from a single site, ‘Les Boucauds,’ which has kimmeridgian marl soils. The dense, silky-fine texture of the wine is enough to turn heads, but the vivid and intense nature of the wine’s flavors, redolent of lemon, peach, salt and rocks, is pretty shocking, too.
Posted on May 05, 2024
John Truax
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San Leonardo today produces one of the greatest Bordeaux blends of Italy, comparable in quality — but not in fame — to Sassicaia. Why is Sassicaia more famous (and so much more expensive)? Is it because it came first? Is it the “Super Tuscan” brand? Is it because the wine is more plush, a bit less edgy, and therefore more appealing to international tastes?
Posted on May 01, 2024
Jeff Patten
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Greatness in Brunello di Montalcino meant, for generations, vines located in the original heart of the DOC in and around the village of Montalcino itself. But starting in the 1970s, a group of producers started to discover that just to the southeast of Montalcino, in the commune of Castelnuovo dell’Abate, you could make some very special, and especially elegant, Brunello.
Posted on April 28, 2024
Jeff Patten
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Does a fresh-styled, old-vine Zinfandel — from 100+ year old vines, and made by one of the true icons of the California new wave — sound as good to you as it does to us?
Posted on April 24, 2024
Dan Weber
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If many Langhe Nebbiolos can be called ‘baby Barolos’, then Luigi Einaudi’s is a super baby Barolo! That’s because it’s not just sourced from declassified grapes in the Barolo zone — Einaudi’s is made from some of the most revered sites in all of Piedmont: “Monvigliero” and “Bussia”.
Posted on April 21, 2024
Dan Weber
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Located next to the winery, Clos de la Hutte is a true walled-in parcel that once belonged to an abbey. Boudignon makes several single-vineyard cuvées, but acknowledges that ‘Hutte’ has a special combination of power and elegance, which he attributes to the soils of sand of schist.
Posted on April 17, 2024
John Truax
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