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.
Once you taste Faouzi Issa's wines you'll understand why we couldn't pass up representing Domaine des Tourelles.
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?
This is the third in a series of interviews of our growers by wine writer, scientist, and critic Dr. Jamie […]
This is the second in a series of interviews of our growers by wine writer, scientist, and critic Dr. Jamie […]
Godello, the next Godello For a while critics and importers have declared Godello the next Albariño. This is somewhat unfair […]
There is a lot of Albillo planted in Spain and a lot of different Albillos, so this is part one […]
The world is divided into two groups of people, those who divide the world into two groups and those that […]
The 2017 vintage and, judging by my initial tastings, also the 2019s, are likely to offer longer-lived Chablis upon which […]