This is a blend of  95% Cinsault and 5% País, hand-harvested from vines planted in 1960. The whole berries are fermented with native yeast, and the wine is aged in neutral oak. The nose shows bright red fruits of raspberry and strawberry with rose petals and hints of fresh florest floor. The palate...

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...

Our meteorically successful bargain red! 100% Merlot, CERTIFIED ORGANIC, grown on a single site from an old family estate cultivating Bordeaux varieties in the western Languedoc. Knockout label at no extra charge.  

70% Pineau d'Aunis/20% Cab Franc/10% Gamay. Includes vines from 60-130 years old! Co-fermented Pineau & Cab Franc with Gamay added afterward. Vinified & aged in tank, bottled unfiltered.

A light fresh glass of apple blossoms and pebbles with a thirst-quenching finish, this is the perfect intro for everyone to the joys of DRY German Riesling. Alc. 12.0%, 7 g/L RS, 7.5 acidity. Pour it, sip it, carafe it, stack it, and have a ball with it. We'll spare you the inevitable puns about...

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...

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...