2025 Wine

Organic/Bio Lower ABV What happens when you take a classic, refreshing beach wine and crank the energy up to eleven? You get this electrifying beauty! It’s racy, tart, and assertive, with pops of ripe peach and fresh passionfruit... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV While Pinot Grigio tends to steal all the attention in Alto Adige, Pinot Bianco is arguably the better grape for the slopes of the Dolomites. Alois Lageder crafts an all-steel classic here. Yellow apple,... Read More

Organic/Bio One of the best things about Monestrell is how it can develop really ripe fruit flavors without turning sweet or fruity. Like here in this cheerful Jumilla, Spain, example from younger vines and done all in tank. It’s... Read More

Lower ABV An ENORMOUS amount of wine for the money here, in 100% Malbec grown carefully at high altitude and then made in steel to let the grape and place shine through. Black-fruited on the nose and palate with fine complexity... Read More

Organic/Bio A very different take on Willamette Valley Pinot Gris even beyond the depth, richness and character imparted by Stephen Hagen’s very different grazing-based viticulture. Here the wine spends 40 days on the skins... Read More

Organic/Bio My note for this is pretty much the same every year: one taste and you'll think, Ah, so THIS is what Willamette Valley Pinot Gris is supposed to taste like! From an organically farmed vineyard south of Salem, it's... Read More

Organic/Bio Grazing-based viticulture seems to unlock the wild side in Willamette Valley grapes. Like with the westernmost 24 rows of Stephen Hagen’s Pinot Gris, which starting in 2010 started giving berries in a wild range... Read More

Lower ABV Always a zesty, exuberant, take on New Zealand Sauvignon, this vintage is especially expressive. As Wine Advocate says in the 93 point review, it's herbaceous, crunchy, concentrated and chalky, with layers of saline... Read More

Lower ABV Pretty much exactly what you’d want to drink with seafood and sunset on the Greek Island of Evia. Blending salty Assyrtiko with fragrant Viognier, it serves up generous aromas of white peach and apricot and a burst... Read More

Organic/Bio About an hour’s drive from Madrid, in the cool, rugged foothills of the Sierra de Gredos mountains, two siblings tend Bernabeleva’s 80-year-old Garnacha vines, planted by their great-grandfather. The resulting... Read More

Lower ABV Estate-grown Prosecco is far from the norm. This family-owned, certified-sustainable estate-bottler in the very best subzone of the region makes one of the most delicious savory Proseccos we’ve ever tasted. Aromas... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV The hot, sandy desert of Spain’s Jumilla region shouldn’t be able to make white wine this good. The three siblings at the helm of rising star winery Bodega Cerron have found a way, drawing on... Read More

Lower ABV Not your typical easy-breezy salty-peach Albarino! This one is rich and complex, but still fresh, thanks to six months on the lees in both stainless steel and oak foudres. Fifty-year-old vines grown in the Val do Salnés... 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

Lower ABV Wow, is it ever a delight to taste a really classic Muscadet like this one! Crushed rock, leesy/salty minerality, and dollops of crunchy green apple and pear that start and finish with some lemon/lime bite while staying... 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

This is easy-drinking wine from very grand grapes! 100% estate-grown Sangiovese BBS11, the clone that built Biondi Santi and made Brunello di Montalcino the legendary appellation it is today. Wine Enthusiast’s rave of the... 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

Lower ABV From just south of the city of Bordeaux, this is classic white Graves built for seafood, salads and sipping. It's 70% Sauvignon Blanc and 30% Semillon done in steel. Fresh yellow and orange citrus and green apple... Read More

Organic/Bio The 95 point 2024 edition was very good; this is better. It's a blend of 35% each Grenache Blanc and Roussanne with 15% each Bourboulenc and Clairette aged in 40% new French oak, 40% older barrels, and 20% concrete.... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV The young, petit, Ch du Grand Bos winemaker Lou Rochet is a woman who packs a punch - in personality, exuberance and talent. And her Cab/Merlot blend rosé is loaded with personality and exuberance,... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV An exceptionally fresh and energetic Provencal pink built on organically grown Grenache and Cinsault plus splashes of Syrah and Ugni Blanc (Vermentino). On the nose and palate, delivers bold notes of crunchy... Read More

Lower ABV Chased out of post-phylloxera vineyards by higher-yielding Trebbiano, Pecorino was thought to be extinct until a few very old vines were discovered in the mid-1980s. Today it's arguably the flagship white of Italy's... Read More

Lower ABV The kind of excellent value in all-purpose, clean, fresh, and delicious Pinot Grigio that's getting harder and harder to find. Importer Lia Tolaini-Banville sources fruit from across the Veneto and ferments it cool... Read More

Lower ABV Same wine, new label/name. Moscato d’Asti is sweet, but don’t get trapped into thinking that means “just” sweet or “just” for dessert! This fine value delivers oodles of fresh and... Read More