In 2015, chateau owner Bertrand Gourdou was searching through an old desk when he came across a label that his grandfather had made in the early 1970's; that wine was called "Le pot-de-vin" which, in French, translates to "the bribe", which for that era was an audacious play on words for a wine...

Chenin Blanc/Orbois (aka Menu Pineau). This is the first vintage of "Orbin", a skin-macerated white named quite literally as a combination of its two component varieties (Orbois + Chenin), from a pre-phylloxera co-plantation. Forgues farming is certified-organic and the harvest is manual. The...

70% Pineau d’Aunis/20% Cabernet Franc/10% Gamay. 2020 was the first vintage of "Icône". Averaging 30 years old, the vines are planted on clay-limestone soils in the heart of the Cher valley of the Touraine region in the Loire. They are certified-organic and tended and harvested by hand. The bunches...

55% Nebbiolo/30% Croatina/10% Vespolina/5% Uva Rara. Unlike the riserva-level "Lozio" red, the "Santuvario" red is made annually, from Santuvario's younger (20-to-40-year-old) vines. They lie at around 400 meters in elevation among steep hills in the middle of woods on porphyry-rich volcanic soils...

80% Nebbiolo/20% Vespolina. These 40+-year-old vines grow on a hill of sandy, mineral-rich volcanic soils overlooking the sanctuary ("santuario") for which the winery is named. The farming is organic and the harvest by hand. Only the most perfect bunches go into Lozio, with the rest going into the...

60% Barbera 40% Bonarda (aka Croatina). The soil of Croci's steep, southeast-facing hillside vineyard is mainly a crumbly, sandy, limestone-rich clay full of marine fossils called terre fossili piacenzano; but higher up the hill, the Galvano parcel features a heavier, iron-rich terra rossa where...

Nestled in the hills of the Yamhill-Carlton appellation lies Nicolas-Jay’s Bishop Creek Vineyard. Of the 13.5 acres under vine, 11 acres are planted to Pinot Noir. The majority of the vines at Bishop Creek were planted in 1988 and 1990, and are own-rooted. Adding to the site’s diversity, the...

100% Pinot Noir from Eola-Amity, Dundee Hills, and Yamhill-Carlton AVAs in nearly equal parts, ensuring optimal blending potential and representation of the diversity of pinot noir in the Willamette Valley. These unique sites include vineyards located in the high-elevation Eola-Amity Hills, the...

From Marco: Rotburger, Sankt Laurent, Blauburger, Merlot and a few white vines, probably planted unintentionally, who knows, Vienna 30 years ago, early 80’s, wild times in a city that was not so wild at the time, at least on the surface. Back to the wine: forest soil and fruits…fermented...

This Gemischter Satz is named Kosmopolit as it comes from five sites on both sides of the Danube in Vienna. The grapes are picked on the same day by two teams, each consisting of approximately ten to twelve people. In the evening, all of the grapes go into the press together and the next day after...

Its clever name, translated as, "a liter of Vienna" plays on swapping two letters in German, "Wien" and "wein". This wine is totally different from the common liter of Gruner Veltliner that most are familiar with. It's a combination of second press juice from all of the Gemischter Satz, Gruner...

The Rosengartl vineyard is a legendary site for Riesling. It is on the right bank of the Danube on the famous Nussberg hill, a south-facing limestone slope that has great views of Vienna. Ambrositsch has eight rows of vines, planted in 2000 and 2001, right in the center of the plateau, the best...

From a single parcel on the right side of the Danube with Ambrositsch’s oldest vines, planted in the 1950’s. It’s a mix of ancient varities that are not known and twelve that are familiar, some of them rare. Brenna Quigley, a reknowned geologist, explained in a recent AWMB seminar that these marl ...

The 2023 Dry Gewürztraminer “skin-fermented” wine is a blend of parcels from Bloomer Creek's Auten and Morehouse Road Vineyards. Both sites are located on the west side of Cayuga lake and are planted on Lima soils (silty clay loam). After multiple passes to pick for acidity and ripeness, the...