This wine is sourced from several different vineyards all around Albares in Bierzo Alto, where the Aurora project is centered; like its sister wine Poula, this is a blend from old vines and is all estate fruit.

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...

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...

Gewürztraminer (64%), Pinot Gris (21%), and Chardonnay (15%) from three organically farmed sites in the Willamette Valley: Andreas (Gewürztraminer), No Clos Radio (Pinot Gris, Chardonnay), and Marin (Chardonnay). All are dry-farmed without the use of artificial herbicides or pesticides. The 2024...

60% Tempranillo and 40% Garnacha blended from multiple parcels. Vinified separately in order to get a fresh, and “fluid” wine. A mix of saignee and direct press.

100% Garnacha from very old vines (80+) grown on the clay and limestone soils of the vineyards around Rivas de Tereso, in Alavesa (650m elevation). The wine is made from spontaneous fermentation in old used foudres, and elevage in clay amphorae.  It has become Sandra's signature wine, an elegant...

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...

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...

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...

This crisp, zesty, flavorsome dry Riesling comes from rolling hillside vineyards in the southern Pfalz around Ilbesheim. Most of the soils are loam mixed with a top layer of loess -- a decomposed calcium-rich dust deposited from ancient glaciers. The wine was vinified in steel and offers 7+ grams...

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...

Cabernet Franc from Barrow Vineyard, a site purchased by Kim and Debra in 2013 on the east side of Seneca Lake. The Bloomers planted this Cabernet Franc parcel in 2015 on a steep, rocky hillside. The Barrow bottling undergoes the same cellar protocol as the Morehouse Road Cab Franc - fermented with...