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Back in March we told you the story of Antinori’s iconic white wine, Cervaro. Antinori’s Cervaro della Sala is, year after year, one of Italy’s greatest, high-profile white wines.

While most of the great terroirs of Bordeaux are located in the prestigious regions that most of us are familiar with (Pauillac, Pomerol, etc), there are other great micro-areas of exceptional terroir that exist outside those famous appellations. Problem is, most of these extraordinary vineyards are owned by small growers. And while they may be good viticulturists, many

I’d have to think that the Winex award for ‘Bestest Most Ridiculous Value in Chianti over a 20 year period’ would have to go to the Masi family and Fattoria Basciano.

Well, it looks like you guys found our Kaesler offer from this morning to your liking…So why not ‘double down’ on this delicious Kaesler closeout with another old vine stunner!

The area around the town of Maury, in the south of France, has multiple sites with old vines planted in the local black schist soils (not unlike the llicorella soils in Priorat to the south). Chateau St. Roch is located near Maury, where superstar vintner/consultant Jean-Marc Lafage grew up and first tended vines. So, when a property there

Boy, you’d think it’d be tough to make one of Italy’s greatest white wines better but, then again, we are talking about Cantina Terlano, one of the finest wineries on the planet.

What happens when a 100-point Bordeaux chateau makes pink wine? It’s pretty damn good!

We’ve told you the story already of Podernuovo a Palazzone, a new wine estate in Southern Tuscany, close to San Casciano dei Bagni, at the border to Lazio and Umbria. The estate expands over 520 acres including Sangiovese, Montepulciano, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot vines. It is managed full-time by Giovanni Bulgari, the successor to the famed jewelry dynasty.

Classic Rioja wasn’t en vogue with the pundits for a number of years, and with good reason. Many of the wines made in the late 70’s to late 80’s were disappointing. It was a dark time for Rioja, quantity over quality, you know the story.

I gotta admit, the ‘new’ Chile is pretty frigging cool. And it’s cool for one particular reason, the same reason why Priorat is cool, or Bierzo is cool, or the Languedoc is cool, it’s essentially re-discovering something that was here the whole time.