60% Corvina/20% Corvinone/20% Rondinella. The Venturini family bought 1.5 hectares of vines in San Giorgio, about 8 kilometers from their estate vineyard, in 2015. They farm these vines biodynamically, like all of their others, but there are key differences in the site itself. It is a steeper,...

95% Trebbiano/5% Malvasia. From certified-biodynamic vines up to 50 years old in the home Montesecondo vineyard in San Casciano in Val di Pesa (at the northern edge of the Chianti Classico zone). The old vines have been propagated by the old traditional marcottage method (wherein a vine attached to...

100% Teroldego. Local dialect for "dark", "Morei" is a warmer, stonier 2.5 hectares on the Campo Rotaliano plateau near the winery in the foothills of the Dolomites. Elisabetta planted the vines in guyot from massale cuttings in 1984. The farming is certified-biodynamic and the harvest is by hand....

A blend of 75% Vermentino and 25% Grenache Blanc from Fenaughty Vineyard; a high-elevation site (2,800 ft) on volcanic loam soils, located above the gold rush town of Placerville in the Sierra Foothills. The fruit was picked together and whole cluster pressed into tanks for fermentation. Malolactic...

The 2021 Radiolaria Chardonnay is the first estate Chardonnay from Faîte De Mer Farm. Radiolaria Chardonnay is composed of three blocks from three different soils types, planted to Dijon 548, Wente and Dijon 76. The soils are of ancient ocean floor sedimentary origins, which contain deep sea bed...

100% Gamay. Jean-Paul farms 6 hectares in Fleurie, all of it in the celebrated lieu-dit of Grille Midi, a south-facing amphitheater of vines on poor, sandy, decomposed-granite soils over hard granite rock. This site yields wines of great concentration, power and longevity.There are two Terres...

100% Chenin Blanc. From a 0.75-hectare, certified-organic parcel of 60-year-old estate vines on clay over limestone. Pinon’s Goutte d’Or liquoreux is its most rare, complex, vaunted sweet wine, produced thus far only in 1989, 1990 and 2018. The correct conditions are quite rare. In 2018, the grapes...

This single-vineyard cru is La Gerla's flagship wine. Made in select years, this comes entirely from a one-hectare parcel of old vines (25-30 years old) from the original Biondi-Santi site, located between 270 and 320 meters above sea level. This hillside vineyard occupies a privileged position at...

100% Lambrusco Salamino. Salamino is a sub-variety of Lambrusco known for thick skins, dark color, high acidity and tight bunches. Luciano and his daughter Sara Saetti grow nothing else, just 2.5 hectares of Salamino planted in 1964. They farm organically, a rarity in Lambrusco. The site is flat...

100% Verdicchio. The fruit is from 10 hectares of various vineyards on the Felici farm, from 10- to 40-year-old vines.  The vineyards are between 500 and 600m above sea level; Leo's vineyard site at 600m is the highest in the appellation. Harvest was in late September/early October at yields of 11,...

Sourced from a vineyard planted to Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional and Tinta Roriz; this site has been farmed organically since it was planted in 1998. The fruit is partially destemmed, then foot-trodden, as has been the tradition here since 1816. Fermentation is in done in lagar, and malolactic...

One of the very few wines with sweetness produced at Koehler-Ruprecht, and a predictably fine one! Steinacker translates to the "stony acre,” a sandstone+loess site characterized by pebbly rocks. Its borders were over-expanded for political purposes (like many famous sites) by the 1971 law, but...

100% Chardonnay. From a plot of ungrafted or non-greffée vines on very sandy soils in Oeuilly, planted by the Tarlants` grandfather, and unsurprisingly named "Les Sables". The name "Antan" means essentially "yesteryear", a reference to the historical roots of this bottling as well as the old-...