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The domaine is a family run operation centered around a centuries old cellar in the...
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Bernard Baudry and son Matthieu are making the best wines in Chinon these days, my...
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It might seem a bit surprising that this tiny domaine is so under the...
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This is a real show stopper. Gouttes d’Or is the northernmost vineyard in the main...
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There are plenty of reasons to pay closer attention to the Marsannay appellation but in...
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Silvio Giamello doesn't just produce one of the best values Barbaresco's I've ever had, he also bottles what one...
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...
