2020 Birichino Vermentino Mahoney Ranch Vineyard Los Carneros Napa Valley
Birichino’s Vermentino, sourced from Mahoney Ranch in Los Carneros, is shiny yellow with a quiet perfume of laurel, grass, and lime peel (this melange…
White Wines
2019 Flowers Vineyards and Winery Chardonnay Sonoma Coast
Flowers’s Sonoma Coast Chardonnay is sourced from a mix of vineyards, including the estate’s own Camp Meeting Ridge. The wine spends 11 Months French…
2019 Montinore Estate Pinot Gris Willamette Valley
Montinore farms organically and biodynamically. Fermentation for this wine is conducted in stainless steel with a mix of cultures, some inoculated. The wine ages…
2019 Left Coast Chardonnay Truffle Hill Willamette Valley
The 14-acre estate Truffle Hill vineyard is so named because it’s also home to three acres of hazelnut trees that were inoculated for black…
2020 Tablas Creek Vineyard Grenache Blanc Paso Robles
The majority of Tablas Creek’s estate Grenache blanc goes into their white Rhône-style blends, but they also make about 1,000 cases into a varietal…
2020 Tablas Creek Vineyard Patelin de Tablas Blanc Paso Robles
Tablas Creek’s Patelin de Tablas Blanc is a Rhône-style white blend, 40 percent Grenache blanc, 21 percent Viognier, 19 percent Roussanne, 15 percent Marsanne,…
2020 Tablas Creek Vineyard Côtes de Tablas Blanc Paso Robles
Tablas Creek’s Côtes de Tablas Blanc is a Rhône-style white blend based on Viognier. In this 2020 vintage, the cuvée is 38 percent Viognier,…
2019 Tablas Creek Vineyard Esprit de Tablas Blanc Paso Robles
Tablas Creek’s Esprit Blanc is its prestige Rhône-style white. The blend is 63 percent Roussanne, a grape with firm structure and texture, with the…
2020 Gorghi Tondi Zibibbo Secco Rajàh Sicilia DOC
First, a brief memory: I visited Gorghi Tondi in 2017, a guest of sisters Annamaria and Clara Sala. They are the fourth generation to…
2018 Ca’ dei Zago Prosecco Valdobbiadene
Ca’ dei Zago’s vintage Prosecco is a col fondo, the ancient method that gives the wine its glitter from a second fermentation in bottle….
2017 Domaine Faiveley Les Villeranges Rully
Faiveley’s Rully is old school but stylish, 100 percent Chardonnay (as white Rully must be), from the Villeranges lieu-dit. The fruit was pressed and…
2019 Elena Walch Gewürztraminer Kastelaz Alto Adige
Elena Walch’s Gewürz is estate grown in her Kastelaz Vineyard, a south-facing plot that lies at 350m elevation. Its solid gold robe is perfumed…