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...

Pinot Gris 85%, Grüner Veltliner 15%. The fruit was sourced from three vineyard sites within the Willamette Valley - Keeler Estate (Pinot Gris), Satori Springs (Grüner, Pinot Gris), and Hanson Vineyard (Pinot Gris). Co-fermented with 10 days of skin contact in open-topped bins. The grapes were then...

Sourced from all of the estate's parcels, as each plot has at least some white grapes in it. Vineyards were planted between 1959 and 1999 at 6,000 plants/ha.  In 2018, the blend is essentially equal parts Cortese, Favorita, and Timorasso, with trace elements of Moscato Bianco and Giallo.   Aside...

Riesling from the dry-farmed and organically farmed Nemarniki Vineyard in Chehalem Mountains AVA. Nemarniki is a 6-acre site, planted at 800ft elevation on loess soils. The fruit was hand-harvested during the third week of October, direct pressed, and fermented in 500L puncheons and stainless steel...

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...

The 2022 Chardonnay was sourced from two organically farmed vineyards - the 46-year old, own-rooted, dry-farmed vines at No Clos Radio (83% of blend), and the newly planted Marin Vineyard in Yamhill-Carlton AVA. Chardonnay from No Clos tends to be bright and lean, while the fruit from Marin...

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...

100% Vital. From grapes from Vinha da Pena (vp) from 35-year-old vines planted in Serra de Montejunto, in the region of Lisbon, located ten miles from the Atlantic coast. Macerated in 1000L dornas for three days and then pressed to ferment with native yeasts in old Burgundy barrels for 11 months....

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...

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...

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...