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Summer 2021 Catalogue
Our newest rendition of an affordable Priorat, Coster dels Olivers, comes from the village of Porrera, known for its cooler microclimate and high percentages of Carinyena in their vineyards – a perfect setting to make a wine with bright fruit flavors and crisp minerality wrapped around a medium-bodied frame.
Over the last ten years, a shift has occurred in the Bekaa Valley, where a younger generation is returning to their roots and making pure wines without any of the past's excesses. Leading this movement is Faouzi Issa of Domaine des Tourelles.
While admittedly, we share Xavier’s love of pure and riveting Chenin Blanc in its many guises, which he has certainly mastered in Montlouis, we have to admit that his red wines from the Touraine are some of the most satisfying we’ve ever tasted as well.
For years we’ve searched for an estate in Vouvray making chiseled and forthright dry wines and made with minimal intervention. With Mathieu Cosme, we not only got that but the rising star of Vouvray.
Amirault's wines are intensely pure, savory, soulful Cabernet Francs, and their addition to our portfolio alongside the stellar Domaine de la Noblaie in Chinon and the Anjou’s rising stars at Terre de l’Elu, we have assembled a stable of benchmark Loire Valley Cabernet Franc growers.
El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands, emerges from the shadows, and naturally, it is because of Rayco Fernandez.
What happens when winemaker Eulogio Pomares, UK-based wine importer Ben Henshaw, wine writer Jamie Goode, and wine entrepreneur Daniel Primack get together to make an Albariño?
At the heart of 2020 in Chablis is a contradiction between a hot, dry summer with an early harvest but […]
What is Corpinnat? Corpinnat is a collective brand registered with the European Union. As of May 2021, it comprises 11 […]
The 2019 vintage of Aalto Ribera del Duero will be released in July 2021, with PS following in late summer […]
In July, 2021 we will be releasing the 2019 Clos Erasmus and Laurel from Clos i Terrasses. We spoke with […]
By Jon-David Headrick The Aube region of France seems to be in an eternal tug of war between Champagne and […]
Getting frothy in the valley By Steven Spanbauer Unlike Limoux or Champagne, the Loire Valley doesn’t have a centuries-old tradition […]