The 2021 vintage marks the inaugural release of RAEN Winery’s Lady Marjorie Chardonnay Cuvee. This bottling is a blend of two vineyard sites in one of California’s most prestigious regions for chardonnay: Fort Ross-Seaview. RAEN describes this bottle as having “elegance, finesse, and verve.”
J.J. Huber’s Laguna Canyon Winery is a favorite with the locals, and the 2016 Laguna Canyon Winery Chaparral Cuvée, Fountaingrove, a Bordeaux-inspired blend, is a great example of why.
With Calluna Estates, winemaker and proprietor David Jeffery seeks to capture the magic of Bordeaux in Sonoma County. Like many producers who work with grapes from the Chalk Hill AVA, his wines are highly sought after.
Old vine zinfandel from Lodi, California, is treasured by the wine community. This 2017 Michael Klouda Hatterle Zinfandel bottle is a great representation of a historic grape by an on-the-rise winemaker.
Maison Areion creates small-production California wines in the style of Burgundy and Bordeaux. Fourth-generation winemaker Nicolas Vonderheyden works with mountain fruit from a petite, family-owned vineyard in one of California’s most underappreciated appellations, the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA.
When it comes to a white wine that’s perfect for everyday drinking, a nice Albariño is hard to beat. When most wine drinkers think of this plucky green-skinned grape, they think of Spain or Portugal. But Albariño is getting a toehold in another part of the world, Uruguay.
The 2018 Bianchi Vineyards Cabernet Franc has been getting a lot of attention lately. In April of this year (2022), at the International Cabernet Franc Wine Competition, this bottle won a silver medal in the professional judging section and a Best in Class award in the People’s Choice category.
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The 2020 Famille Savary Chablis was imported by the legendary Kermit Lynch, who is regarded as one of the most prominent importers of French and Italian wine in the US. If you’re ever shopping for wine and you see ‘imported by Kermit Lynch’ on the back of the bottle, there’s
The world is in love with the wines of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. So much so that about 80% of each vintage is exported to countries around the world.
Jorge Maciel first tried his hand at making wine in 2000 after a trip to Italy (and numerous bottles of Italian wine) left him in awe of the country’s winemaking abilities.
His actual impression of Italian wine was that he had the impression of “tasting happiness for the first
Chianti gets a bad rap. For so long, this dry Tuscan wine was associated with fiascos, the straw-covered bottles of yesteryear, the kind you’d find at a long-in-the-tooth Italian restaurant – it wasn’t the kind of wine that “serious” wine drinkers reached for.
Champagne Petit & Bajan, “Promise” Brut Grand Cru is everything you want from a grower Champagne. The palate is elegant and layered. The husband and wife winemaker-grower duo of Richard Petit and Véronique Bajan have captured what makes the terroirs in Avize and Verzenay some of the best Champagne terroirs
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