Sauvignon Blanc 50%, Semillon 50% from Renaissance Vineyard in North Yuba. The white block at the Renaissance Vineyard did not suffer the same level of frost damage as the parcels at the top of the mountain. The location of the slope provided more protection from the frigid wind that caused most of...

The 2023 bottling is 100% estate Cabernet Sauvignon, blended from the east and west facing hillsides. It is representative of the estates' diversity, terroir and history. Hand harvested, sorted and aged for 22 months in 35% new French Oak.

50% Meunier/31% Chardonnay/19% Pinot Noir. "Les Murgiers" is the beginning of the Boulard range and takes its name from the traditional vineyard walls built from river stones dug up to make way for planting (and alternatively spelled murgets, murgers, meurgers or meurgiers). The heart of the wine...

This blend of 50% Malbec and 50% Pinot Noir is all hand-harvested from the Tupungato Winelands vineyard in Gualtallary. Planted in 2007, this vineyard is situated at 4,600 feet of altitude and has calcareous, stony soils. Vinified in stainless steel, the wine sees some carbonic maceration and is...

65% Cinsault, 30% Pais, and 5% Carignan from small plots planted between 1800-1960 in granite soils. Grapes are hand-harvested, left 10% whole cluster and fermented and aged for eight months in concrete spheres.

The mountains of Sierra de Toloño, with their clay and limestone rocky-soils, are perfect conditions to grow Tempranillo. This is Sandra Bravo's "workhorse", the wine that points the way to some of the most elegant expressions of Rioja Alavessa we've encountered. Harvested by hand, mid-October, the...

In 2015, chateau owner Bertrand Gourdou was searching through an old desk when he came across a label that his grandfather had made in the early 1970's; that wine was called "Le pot-de-vin" which, in French, translates to "the bribe", which for that era was an audacious play on words for a wine...

60% Barbera 40% Bonarda (aka Croatina). The soil of Croci's steep, southeast-facing hillside vineyard is mainly a crumbly, sandy, limestone-rich clay full of marine fossils called terre fossili piacenzano; but higher up the hill, the Galvano parcel features a heavier, iron-rich terra rossa where...

Of the 13.5 acres under vine at Nicolas-Jay’s Bishop Creek Vineyard in Yamhill-Carlton, roughly 2.5 acres are planted to Chardonnay and 11 acres are planted to Pinot Noir. The majority of the vines were planted in 1988 and 1990 and are own-rooted. Adding to the site’s diversity, elevations range...

From a single parcel on the right side of the Danube with Ambrositsch’s oldest vines, planted in the 1950’s. It’s a mix of ancient varieties that are not known and twelve that are familiar, some of them rare. Brenna Quigley, a renowned geologist, explained in a recent AWMB seminar that these marl...