100% Mantonico Bianco (native Calabrian variety, likely a parent of the red Gaglioppo). "Chora Bianco" comes from L'Acino's younger vines on sandy soils at the foot of Monte Pollino in northern Calabria near the Basilicata border. The vines are own-rooted from old-vine massale cuttings. The farming...

A new expression of Chateaneuf-du-Pape Blanc in the 2021 vintage. It’s a blend of 60% Clairettes and 40% Roussanne from the Serres lieu-dit with galets stones, gravel, and blue clay. It’s the first vintage that is aged in a mix of glass demi-johns and two year-old demi-muids barrels. Clairette...

90% Carricante/10% other local varieties. From from three parcels of bush-trained vines over 80 years old on the east face or versante est of Mt. Etna. The farming is organic and all work and harvest by hand. The soils are sandy volcanic ash and the elevation ranges from 750 to 900 meters.  The...

100% Timorasso from the north-facing vineyard parcels of Rampone and Simonelli (2 hectares total), planted between 1996 and 2016 at 300m on silty calcareous soils. Harvest was between September 17th and 19th at yields of 4,000 kg/hectare (about 24 hl/ha) The grapes are whole-cluster pressed....

100% Gewürztraminer from Oak Ridge Vineyard in the Columbia Gorge AVA in Washington State. This is a certified organic site, with the original Gewürztraminer vines dating to the early 1980's. The slopes are south-facing and sit at roughly 1,400 ft elevation in the foothills of Mt. Adams. The fruit...

2021 is the second edition of the Pet-Nat.  The idea with this wine is that it could change from year to year, depending on what a given season offers.  The grapes may change, and therefore the style and the color.  For the 2021, it is 70% Verdicchio, 15% Sangiovese, and 15% Pinot Noir.  The two...

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...

Chenin Blanc/Orbois (aka Menu Pineau). This is the first vintage of "Orbin", a skin-macerated white named quite literally as a combination of its two component varieties (Orbois + Chenin), from a pre-phylloxera co-plantation. Forgues farming is certified-organic and the harvest is manual. The...

PoP is made of Vital from Serra do Montejunto, a mountain range 6 miles from the Atlantic. This vineyard sits on clay-limestone soils and are 25 year old vines. The grapes are hand harvested and macerated/fermented in 20hl (about 528 gallons) concrete tanks.

100% Ortrugo. Massimiliano Croci refers to his steep, southeast-facing hillside vineyard as a “beach”: the soils (terre dei fossili piacenzano) are crumbly, sandy clay, full of disintegrating, limestone-rich marine fossils. “Lubigo” translates as “landslide” and is the name of the Ortrugo parcel in...

A portion of this wine is sourced from Nicolas-Jay’s estate vineyard, Bishop Creek, located in the Yamhill-Carlton AVA, along with three outstanding Eola-Amity appellation vineyards: Lone Star, Von Oehsen and Spirit Hill. Each of these sites contributes an array of aromatics and textures and,...

This Gemischter Satz is named Kosmopolit as it comes from five sites on both sides of the Danube in Vienna. The grapes are picked on the same day by two teams, each consisting of approximately ten to twelve people. In the evening, all of the grapes go into the press together and the next day after...

This is one of the only Pouilly-Fuisse that Saumaize-Michelin makes from the village of Solutre. They have a .25 hectare parcel with south east exposure and 45 year old vines. The vines are at about 300 meters altitude compared to Vergisson where the average is 370 meters high. The subsoil here is...