Vineyards with newer plantings and old ones, whose age exceeds 140 years and managed to survive the great fire of 2022 in Melamps and gave this wine a very small production. A truly unicorn wine, produced by spontaneous fermentation in stainless steel tanks and with low sulphites. A terribly difficult year after the fire, but the result shows the dynamism...
A landmark wine that proves the strength and stubbornness of Iliana, who despite the difficulties due to the fire that destroyed a large part of her old vineyards, managed to "enchant" us again with her new rosé. In a blessed place where old goblets abound, Iliana turned to the great variety of Crete, Liatiko, in a rosé vinification that raises the bar....
And while the pace at which Etna's reds are attracting love and attention is exponential, the region's stunning rosé wines should not be overlooked. Among them, Marco de Grazia's Etna Rosato exploits the source of Nerello Mascalese's versatility, but goes against the current of the times. Instead of a modern, fruity, sweetly flavoured rosé, Marco offers a...
The grapes of the different varieties are harvested and vinified together for as long as it takes, having first ripened to perfection with the help of the winery's most meticulous attention to cultivation. With no additions or interventions during vinification, Complantation is the ultimate expression of the Alsace terroir. Calm, complete and ripe on the...
The wine comes from a vineyard with a common planting of Riesling, Gewurztraminer and Pinot Noir between 1982 and 2002. Fermentation lasts 3 weeks with simultaneous maceration with the skins in tank. The wine is aged for 12 months in foudres and bottled without filtering and without the addition of sulphites. This is one of Deiss' stunning cru d'Alsace...
Next to Marcel Deiss's sensational grand cru in which the message of the place goes beyond the winemaker and the year, in a take-off of the concept of terroir, a "humble" village like Alsace Zellenberg is not only humble. The village and its characteristics offer a flavor context, a signature, which the Deiss winery graciously comes to endorse, and which...
In a sea of uniformity where all rosés tend to remind us of the famous wines of Provence, the Marche Rosato of the Aurora winery stands out for its special character. In terms of colour, it is far from the aforementioned style, giving it more the feel of a very soft red, while it is full of aromatic and flavour tensions. The wine is vinified with...
The Merlot's sweet and juicy fruit is in the foreground, an explosion of red summer fruit and flowers leading to a soft palate with lower tannin levels and excellent freshness. The blend steps on 75% Merlot with the rest being Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine has short extractions, fermented with indigenous yeasts and matured only in concrete tanks for about...
Nerello Mascalese gives excellent rosés and Etna Rosato from younger vines in different parts of the zone, is a rosé that is imprinted in memory. A real firework of intensity and minerality, it is nothing like the candied fruit and sweetness that comes to mind when it comes to rosé wines. Serious, with pulsating energy and tensions, salty minerality and...
Grapes purchased from different vineyards in the region always with the principles of organic farming which Vanessa Cherruau vinifies with absolute care and the philosophy of low intervention. The wine is vinified by spontaneous fermentation in stainless steel tanks and matured for 9 additional months in them giving a wine of exceptional immediacy, for...
Tournebride, like all Gaudry wines, is made from observation and emotion. Tournebride has no classic winemaking recipe and the wine itself each year shows the producer what to do. It is a blend of different regions of the appellation of origin on different soils, each adding multiple layers to the wine. Precision of expression and tensions, with fruit and...
"Les Pierres Plates" comes from the homonymous vineyard in Reuilly on limestone soils filled with fossilized shells in an area that was once the bottom of a large sea. The vineyard is biodynamically farmed and in the winery interventions are minimal, highlighting the specificity of the terroir. Pulsating, lemony fruit, on a nose of crystal clarity with...
