2019 Tablas Creek Vineyard Mourvèdre Paso Robles
This is not your grandmother’s Mourvèdre. Tablas Creek’s bottling is light-colored, light-textured, and juicy, quite different from the chewier examples from warm reaches of…
This is not your grandmother’s Mourvèdre. Tablas Creek’s bottling is light-colored, light-textured, and juicy, quite different from the chewier examples from warm reaches of…
The vignes oubliées in question are old, head trained Grenache, Carignan, and Syrah vines, planted in small plots at 300 to 400 meters of…
The Centralas Cabernet is fermented with ambient cultures, and the wine spends three years in French barriques, about one-fifth new. The winery admirably discloses…
Château de Jau occupies a 100-hectare estate founded in the 12th century CE by Cistercian monks. The site, in the fragrant, scrubby countryside just…
Centralas’s vineyard designate Pinot noir is sourced from a certified organic vineyard planted to Clone 667. The fruit was de-stemmed and fermented with ambient…
This is an estate wine from the 14-acre Laurel Glen Vineyard, first planted in 1968. The site has been certified organic since 2014 and…
This enchanting wine is a blend of 48 percent Syrah, 22 percent Mourvèdre, 20 percent Grenache, and 10 percent Carignan grown in the brushy…
Domaine des Sanzay’s Saumur-Champigny is a mercurial wine, youthful but with the stuffing to age. Made from organically farmed Cabernet Franc, it’s rich raspberry-red…
Gallica’s Napa Cab Franc is ruby purple with blue-fuchsia glints. The wine has a perfume of violets and black plums, and the first palate…
The Émile Beyer winery was established in Eguisheim in 1580 and is now managed by the family’s 14th generation. Farming is organic and the…
Cathy Corison’s wines are vintage-expressive; a vertical tasting reveals more about the temperament of the season than that of the winemaker. I always find…
Perrachon’s Juliénas is deliciously versatile and a terrific value