Like all of Hoch's still wines, the Rot (red) is a blend of three vintages, supporting Hoch's vision that the best expression of terroir comes from the blend rather than a dominant vintage. Young wines add fruit and older wines bring tannins and structure. The Rot is a blend of 80% Zweigelt and 20...

La Nave is Casa Aurora's entry point.  A regional wine from Albares, in Bierzo Alto, mostly from north-face vineyards planted on rocky and clay soils, averaging about 75-years of age, it is made mostly from Mencia, with a bit of Tintorera and Palomino.  The grapes are destemmed and the wines are...

Varieties: 90% Glera, 10% Perera and Bianchetta. Harvested by hand. Vineyard: Col San Martino in the lieu-dit “Rive Alte,” 3.5 hectares at 250-270m above sea level. Planted in 1965, 1980, and 2011.  Eastern exposure. Trained in the traditional Sylvoz or Doppio Capovolto. Soils: In the steep section...

The 2025 Chardonnay was sourced from two organically dry-farmed vineyards: the 49-year-old, own-rooted vines at No Clos Radio (Tualatin Hills AVA) and Marin Estate Vineyard (Yamhill-Carlton AVA). The fruit from No Clos Radio is a later-ripening heritage clone, producing aromatic, bright, and lean...

100% Pinot Noir, farmed biodynamically, from a single vineyard. The vines are 15 years old, and grow in granitic soils at just over 1,000 feet elevation. Aged and fermented completely in concrete egg.

Sandra Bravo's white comes from old vines grown in the high altitudes of the Sierra de Toloño (650 meters). Made in stainless steel it keeps fine aromatics and acidity, showing the fresh side of Viura.  

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...

The terrible floods of the Maule River in 2023 hit Gonzales Bastias hard.  Their vineyards were flooded, although luckily, without damage to the plants, since their advanced age withstand such ocasional disasters.  But their cellar and winery were wrecked.  As a result they felt “headless”, and...

This wine takes its name from the vineyard from which the grapes are sourced. (The name of the vineyard comes from long ago, when to access the vineyard was through a big stone portal; the local people started to call it Viña El Portalón—literally, Big Door Vineyard—and the name stuck.) From sandy...

100% Cabernet Sauvignon from Robin Pollard's estate vineyard, located near Zillah in the Yakima Valley. Of the 10-acres planted, roughly 2-acres are planted to Cabernet Sauvignon. Soils are sandy loam over limestone. The wine was fermented with ambient yeasts and matured for 18-months before...

The “Handwerk” line is hand-crafted as the name suggests:  biodynamically grown, manually harvested and vinified in small quantities.  You want a dry white but don’t want to give up the fruit, ripeness or sex appeal of Riesling? BOOM. This is an explosively flavorful and energetic bottling, loaded...

48g/l RS, 10.4g acid, 8.5% alc. Stefan Müller holds vineyards in the villages of Niedermennig and Krettnach. One of his prized sites is a parcel of 50 year-old vines (“alte reben”) situated in the western, south-west-facing part of the Niedermenniger Sonnenberg. This parcel is situated on iron-rich...

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...