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Olivier Savary and wife Francine have been making Chablis since 1984, initially selling off most...
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Bernard Baudry and son Mathieu are making some of the best wines in Chinon these days from the...
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In the course of the last 15 years or so, winemaker Éric Chevalier has risen to...
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Giulia Negri started her modest cellar a few years ago with a small plot...
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One of my favorite and best selling white wines is from a region I otherwise have almost...
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The domaine is a family run operation centered around a centuries old cellar in the...
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Guy Breton, Petit Max to friends, is one of legendary importer Kermit Lynch's original gang...
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It might seem a bit surprising that this tiny domaine is so under the radar...
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Always the first wine to be released at Baudry, the Granges is the "basic" cuvèe here...
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The Proprietà Sperino has been in the same family since its creation in the mid...
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Château Thivin is the oldest estate on the Mont de Brouilly dating back to 1383(!) when...
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André-Michel Bregéon started making wine in 1975 with just a few hectares of vineyards in the village of Gorges...
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The great rosés of the Loire are usually among the last to be released and this arrived just a bit earlier than expected. While most producers of rosé in France push to get their wines to market as early as possible in the spring to make sure they’re available for summer, most producers here in the central Loire see their rosés as being a little more serious than wash down wines for the pool. These wines do in fact age very well but I’ve never really seen the point since they’re so good right off the boat. Domaine Baudry is generally considered to be the finest producer in the Chinon appellation, ground zero for great Cabernet Franc. As good as the reds are though, the scarce rosé...
I don't often have the opportunity to offer truly great wines from Campania, one of my two home away from home regions of Italy (the other being Piemonte), and it's not because they don't exist. There just isn't very much of it being produced and that's a shame. There are plenty of well situated vineyards in the Taurasi DOCG planted with Aglianico, aka the Nebbiolo of the south, but so many producers here have decided on some level or another of "international" style in their winemaking (small or new oak or both, fast fermentations on cultured yeast etc) that there are just tiny handful of growers left making the real thing. With only 200 hectares or so planted, there aren't really very many growers at any rate and Luigi Tecce and especially Sandro...
The Cantina Giuseppe Nada in Treiso is an absolute gem of a cellar in Barbaresco and a great if limited source of top quality, traditional Nebbiolo. Established in the 1960's as a winery, the Nadas got started the same way so many small producers did here by transitioning from farming and selling fruit to larger negociant concerns to making and bottling their own wine. They own and farm prime vineyard land in Treiso, the highest altitude village in the DOC just southeast of Barbaresco itself, principally the famed Casot cru which the family purchased from the Gaja family (yes, those Gajas) in 1900. These days, it's still very much a family operation with Giuseppe and wife Nella Nada doing all the vineyard work, daughter Barbara...
Unlike so many "rockstar" winemakers in Burgundy, Benjamin Leroux wasn't born into a famous family domaine with top holdings in all the right vineyards. In fact, he wasn't born into a winemaking family at all. Benjamin decided he wanted to be a winemaker at the age of 13 and started at the Lycée Viticole de Beaune where he excelled as a student and was considered a prodigy. After finishing his wines studies at the Dijon school and having worked around the world from New Zealand to Oregon he finally landed his first real job at Cos d'Estournel in Bordeaux before returning to Burgundy in 1998. Shortly after arriving home he was offered the job of winemaker/régisseur at the prestigious Comte Armand (Domaine du Clos des Epéneaux) in Pommard,where he interned early on, in time for the 1999 vintage and the rest is history. Filling a rather large...
