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STORY On now to far southern Italy for a cold-weather classic, Puglian Primitivo. One of the best known wines from the South of Italy, this warm M...

STORY The Château d’Épiré is a pillar of excellence in the heart of the Loire Valley. Though you may be more acquainted with Vouvray and Sancerre,...

STORY If we were to tell you that some of the world’s most intriguing natural wines were coming from a single farm in rural Slovakia, you might be...

STORY It is incredibly exciting to include a grower as well-known and sought-after as Envínate in this month’s selections. A collective project o...

STORY Château Vrai Caillou Bordeaux, France Bordeaux Rouge 2018 Ah, Bordeaux. There is perhaps no French wine region that is better known or more ...

STORY It’s certainly true that many of the wine world’s most compelling gems come to us from intersections of culture and politics. One of France’...

STORY Though the Croci family has tended vines in Emilia Romagna since the 1930s, like many of our farms around here, it was milk that was the foc...

STORY Pierre-Olivier Bonhomme got his start in wine when he dropped out of high school and hooked up with Thierry Puzelat. A rising Loire valley w...

STORY  As we so often do, we turn again to the wondrous Languedoc for this month’s red selection–Domaine du Somail’s Minervois. A staggering value...

STORY Our good friends Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan Peterson founded Scarpetta Wines years ago with a simple goal. That was, to produce classic Friul...

STORY Now, Puech Redon may be big in terms of geographic size, but this particular cuvée was produced in tiny, tiny quantities. The first time i...

STORY It sometimes seems with small-production natural wines that producers are often fighting each other for the title of smallest winery. True–m...