24 Sep “amongst the very finest wines I have ever tasted from this superb Ayl estate.” The amazing photograph above is a good snapshot of the sexy life of the importer dealing with pandemic life: no travel, no big dinners, no vineyard... View Post
02 Sep Lafarge, Jayer, Overnoy, Métras, Verset, Ferrando, Cappellano. What’s interesting about estates like this is that one rarely discusses them in terms of “perfection” or any absurd notions like the 100-point scale. These shallow metrics don’t work for estates like this. In... View Post
26 Aug If you’ve read anything we’ve written, you know we’ve been screaming about the beautiful, complex and delicious diversity of German wines for many, many years. Today’s print copy of The New York Times (online here) puts the spotlight on the amazing breadth of German wines interviewing us and,... View Post
16 Jun the truth of 2019 Migot Vin Gris “Most of Provence’s rosé is as dreary to drink as it is pretty to look at.” Thus wrote the British wine writer Andrew Jefford in his great book The New France. If this seems... View Post
27 May salt, mineral, air It seems, honestly, a bit crazy that it was only with the 2016 vintage that the brothers Brand (Daniel and Jonas, the latter photo’d above) made their first Pet-Nats. They have quickly become, not iconic, but sorta... View Post
19 May Using a Cute Puppy to Sell Wine If there is a more real canned wine project, I haven’t seen it. Also how cute is that puppy? Among the things I love about Companion is the spirit of collaboration, the inventiveness… but also... View Post
19 May Seven Years in Cask Grüner Veltliner’s notes from underground Seven years underground, in a century-old 2,400L barrel, in a cold cellar in Austria, not terribly far from the Czech borer. Today’s wine is an Austrian Grüner Veltliner, though it has very little... View Post
08 May NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S MIXED CASE (unless your grandmother is very strange and particular) The idea is easy enough: the mixed case. In fact, it’s such a compelling, simple and obvious idea that even after seven years, we never really thought about... View Post