Wine Reviews
Matias Riccitelli strikes me as a think-outside-of-the-box kind of winemaker. Along with a “Kung Fu Malbec” and a “Hey Malbec” and several others, Riccitelli...
Contratto has been making wines for over 150 years but has spent more than a century dialing in their vintage sparkling wines. Their Alta...
Renowned as one of Portugal’s most decorated winemakers, Osvaldo Amado is the mastermind behind Raríssimo wines. As both owner and winemaker, Amado seeks to...
Bolgheri is not the only locale in Italy for superb wine made from Bordeaux varieties. In the early 1980s, Marquis Carlo Guerrieri Gonzaga experimented...
Unsurprisingly, all Merlot is not the same. Brandolini’s mid-weight Merlot, for example, bears no resemblance to the opulent and fruity ones often coming out...
This is a wine that I will leave open on the counter and revisit over the next four to five days, expecting it to...
Established on Etna’s northern slopes, Tenuta delle Terre Nere is a winery focused on harnessing Etna’s austere conditions to make quality wines using sustainable...
Grüner Veltliner, often referred to as Gru-Vee in marketing jargon, is Austria’s most well-known and signature grape, comprising a whopping one-third of all plantings,...
I have no idea what its origin is, but there is a lovely whiff of wood smoke that lingers in this bubbly made of...
A partnership between two winegrowers from the Rhône Valley – Nicolas Jaboulet and Alexandre Caso – Maison les Alexandrins offers a wide range of...
Brothers Daniel and Gonzalo Amigo returned to their family roots to establish Bodegas Madai, breathing new life into their grandparents’ vineyards in El Bierzo,...
Malbec, originally found in Cahors in southwestern France or in Bordeaux where it was a prominent part of the blend until the mid-1950s (when...