2023 Wine

Lower ABV A wildly delicious warm-weather and party white from equal parts Sauvignon Blanc and Viognier from France’s southern Rhone Valley. It’s more fruit-filled than floral, showing Sauvignon’s white and yellow... Read More

If you find yourself at café table in Alto Adige around 6pm on a crisp, mountain, summer night, this is what you drink (well, if you’re not having a spritz). Vinous captures it nicely: The 2023 Kerner is delicately... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV The absolute essence of what we expect from Rias Baixas Albarino - but don't always get in these climate change times. This has attractive stone and tropical fruit aromas and flavors, but it really leans... Read More

Organic/Bio Ah-so THIS is what Willamette Valley Pinot Gris is supposed to taste like! From an organically farmed vineyard south of Salem, it's fermented and aged 50/50 in stainless steel and older French oak with 5 months... Read More

Organic/Bio There’s something wild going on in Stephen Hagen’s Willamette Valley vineyard, and the 2023 Juel Pinot Noir is a great way to get a taste of what grazing based viticulture delivers. Stephen replaces herbicides,... Read More

Organic/Bio There’s something joyfully incongruous about a bearded outdoors guy who wears flannel, farms his vineyard with horses, chickens, sheep, geese and (his own) children, and waxes on passionately about the quality... Read More

Organic/Bio The edges of Antiquum Farm’s “Big Field” vineyard are kind of the far edge of what Pinot Noir can do. The winemaking is simple enough – fully de-stemmed fruit, open top fermenters, a bit of... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV Muscadet is the most under-priced wine in the world for the quality, but even by Muscadet standards, the value for money here is nuts. Fizzing with energy and all kinds of juicy green fruits washed over crushed... Read More

Lower ABV Another winning harvest for Toni Bauer's super-value single-vineyard GV! Aromas and flavors of green pear, crunchy red apple, tangerine, Meyer lemon, and a dash of that white pepper savory note that makes Grüner... Read More

South Africa's first black woman winemaker, Ntsiki Biyela is even better known for the benchmark quality of her wines - like this delicious Chardonnay. The texture is lovely, at once dense/rich in feel and vibrantly fresh.... Read More

Lower ABV It was only after the Cowley family purchased their 65 acre vineyard in 1998 that they discovered that it had been the site of the first vinifera grape plantings in all of New Zealand. There's even a tiny winery... Read More

Perhaps the benchmark interpretation of Virginia's most important white grape, the 2022 Viognier from Barboursville is ripe and aromatic and finishes dry and fresh. Suckling's 93 point rave for the 2020 still applies:... Read More

Lower ABV This is classic Albarino from the seaside region of Ribadumía in the heart of the Salnés valley, bounded on two sides by cold Atlantic Ocean water flowing inland through the estuaries – or “Rias”... Read More

From a California Sparkling wine specialist, this is elegant, nicely textured, Chardonnay of fine freshness and length. In 2023, it’s all Russian River fruit from a vineyard next door to Kistler and Ritchie Vineyards and... Read More

As always, an utterly delicious blend of Pinot Bianco, Chardonnay and a splash of Sauvignon Blanc delivers a compelling blend of richness and vivacity, fruit and minerality, and purity and power. Slow fermentation in cool stainless... Read More

Always one of our favorite Pinot Grigio’s has and even more compelling blend of depth, richness, vibrancy and cut in 2023. It’s grown by the 143 member/farmers of the Terlano cooperative winery (founded 1893!), each... Read More

Lower ABV From the volcanic soils of Italy’s Campi Flegrei – or, the Phlegraean Fields – where moon-like craters dot the landscape and more than 100 pools bubble and steam away a few miles from Naples and Mt.... Read More

Bellone was the dominant grape of this hills and valleys of Lazio, the region around Rome, in antiquity, made into a strong, sweet, nutty-brown wine consumed Roman elites at day-long symposia. After phylloxera, it was nearly wiped... Read More

Lower ABV This does just what good Languedoc Chardonnay is supposed to do: give you a nice dollop of Chardonnay varietal flavors with no oak or butter to get in the way of thirst-quenching delight. You’ll enjoy the sliced... Read More

From the south of France, this is easy-drinking Pinot Noir that will satisfy at table as well as just sipping with a crowd. Dark black and Bing cherry fruit show on the nose and palate with a fine juiciness that lifts the flavor... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV What a beautiful Provençal pink wine this is! Including the pink coral color, the lightest ever at this fine certified organic estate due to picking the grapes cold in the dead of night so even less... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV In Provance, Clairette is often called little salty (le salé) for the white specks that appear on the berries as they are ready for harvest. Here it also refers to the salty minerality you'll... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV A vermentino but with a twist, some lees aging. Cedric and Violane took the grape to a different place with this cool wine technique making the grape show some body and creaminess, but, that doesn’t... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV There is Provençal rosé and then there is Palette. Even back in 1948, the limestone soils in a small enclave just south of Aix-en-Provence were clearly different from the rest of the region,... Read More

Sauvignon Blanc is a great summer sipper but it gets even more delicious and versatile in Bordeaux where splashes of Semillon (25%) and Muscadelle (15%) add body, fruit and complexity. This snappy white serves up big aromas and... Read More