2018 Monitore Estate Reserve Pinot Noir Willamette Valley
Montinore’s estate Pinot is made from three blocks, 12 to 36 years old, planted to a mix of Pommard, Wadenswil, and Dijon clones. The…
Tarlant Zero Brut Nature Champagne
Twelfth generation grower-makers Benoit and Melanie Tarlant now manage Champagne Tarlant, which was founded in Oeuilly in 1687. This wine is a blend of…
2018 Montinore Estate Pinot Noir Graham’s Block 7 Willamette Valley
Graham’s Block, also called Block 7, was planted in 1984 and the vines are un-grafted. The fruit is certified biodynamic and organic. The wine…
2020 Tablas Creek Vineyard Esprit de Tablas Adelaida District Paso Robles
Esprit de Tablas is a Rhône-style red blend, 40 percent Mourvèdre, 30 percent Grenache, 21 percent Syrah, with a dollop of Counoise, Vaccarèse, and…
1998 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe La Crau Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Vieux Télégraphe is produced by the Brunier family, growers in Bédarrides, where they are a significant owner of Châteauneuf-du-Pape vignoble. The La Crau vineyard…
2018 Anthill Farms Pinot Noir X West-Bourne Sonoma Coast Sonoma County
Anthill principals Webster Marquez, Anthony Filiberti, and David Low met while working at Williams Selyem and decided to launch a Pinot project, sourcing fruit…
2021 Drusian Prosecco Brut Nature Sui Lieviti Conegliano Valdobbiadene
Conegliano Valdobbiadene Sui Lieviti wines are always 100 percent Glera, hand-harvested. The wines earn their sparkle in the bottle (versus autoclave tank, where most…
2018 Corison Winery Cabernet Sauvignon St. Helena Napa Valley
Fruit for the Napa Valley bottling is sourced from vineyards Cathy Corison’s been farming organically (and now with some biodynamic principles) for decades. The…
2016 Gallica Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
Rosemary Cakebread sources fruit from the Oakville Ranch Vineyard for her Napa Cabernet. The wine is Cab Sauv with a little Cab Franc, and…
2021 Troon Vineyard White Blend Druid’s Fluid Applegate Valley
Troon’s biodynamic white Druid’s Fluid is a blend of 65 percent Vermentino, 22 percent Marsanne, and 13 percent Roussanne. The Vermentino was foot trodden,…
2020 Tablas Creek Vineyard Esprit Blanc de Tablas Paso Robles
Tablas Creek’s flagship white blend leans on Roussanne (46 percent), with healthy doses of Grenache blanc (28 percent) and Picpoul (14 percent), and smaller…
2011 Julia Moro La Combe Perdue Châteauneuf-du-Pape
“La Combe Perdue” means the lost valley. It also, apparently, means the lost wine. Scanning the world’s wine databases for this gem is fruitless:…