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2023 Marques de Riscal Organic Verdejo (Rueda): Heady, perfumed, and lemony goodness at a price too reasonable to resist. $15 B+
2023 Lagar de Cervera Albarino (Rias Baixas): Leaps from the glass, but elegantly, like a ballerina. Fantastic value. $27 A-
2022 Pierre-Marie Chermette Domaine du Vissoux Fleurie ‘Poncie’ (Beaujolais): Floral, peppery, and the red berry action is surprisingly deep and hefty. The finish is spicy, long, and delightful. Niiiiice! $32 A-…
Kopke‘s Port Master Blender Carla Tiago is quite resolved to the fact that she may never taste, in their final form, some of the wines she is working on now, because she might be dead by the time that they are fully developed. It’s not that Tiago is old (she’s not). It’s that Kopke’s Ports…
When describing what makes his family’s wines (and those from Italy’s Romagna in general) unique, Ronchi di Castelluccio‘s Aldo Mario Rametta keeps coming back to one thing: the soil. “The soil is like a memory of the sea,” he says (rather poetically) during an online tasting of some of his family’s recent releases (which also…
Last October, when I met up with Domaine Bousquet‘s Anne Bousquet in NYC’s Baires Grill for what seems to have become an annual catch-up on their new releases, I realized that there waws one question that I’d never asked her. Bousquet has a lot of SKUs, relatively speaking (over 50, by my last count); how…