Schola Sarmenti Critera Primitivo

Most chateaux know that this situation really won’t stand for the fine connoissuer and his or her palate

except for a very few producers

A wine forged in a heat-struck vintage where the châteaux who survived did so on sheer vineyard intelligence

Nero relates mostly Sicily

yet lovingly familiar

13% press wine

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with a huge diurnal temperature change

rain-kissed morning in Chinon in this glass—pluck up a fistful of gravelly earth from the Loire’s right bank and you’ll smell what the 2021 Charles Joguet Chinon Cuvée Terroir unfurls first: that cool

Jasnières rhymes with Savennières

the wines of Domaine Tempier stand as the proud benchmark when talking about Provençal wines

is the new-wave of Loire Cabernet Franc