Domaine Colombet: impressive wines from Saint Joseph in the northern Rhône
Website: https://domainecolombet.fr/ Nicolas Colombet is an eighth-generation winegrower, farming 6 hectares of vines at the Condrieu-adjacent border of the Saint
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Aldo Conterno: tasting the range from this celebrated Barolo producer
Website: https://www.poderialdoconterno.com/en/Homec I was in the right place at the right time to taste these wines. They’d been opened earlier
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Visiting Renán Cancino of Huaso de Sauzal, making ultratraditional wines from Maule, Chile
Sauzal is a small village in the northern part of Cauquenes, in the Maule region of Chile, and it’s where
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Highlights: Honest Wines Time to Dance 2023 Swan Valley, Western Australia
Really like this gem from the Swan Valley, an old warm-climate region established long before Margaret River was even dreamt
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Visiting Domaine Huet, the best-known winery in Vouvray
Website: https://www.domainehuet.com/ Huet is one of the great names of the Loire, and perhaps the most famous winery in Vouvray.
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North Canterbury, New Zealand (10) Pegasus Bay
Back in 1976, Christchurch neurologist Ivan Donaldson had caught the wine bug, and with some of his medical friends planted
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Geographic Wines: an exciting pan-regional terroir project from Portugal
Website: https://www.geographicwines.pt/en/homepage/ This is a really interesting new project from Portugal. It’s a pan-regional portfolio, with wines from Vinho Verde,
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The wines of Vietti, a leading Langhe producer
Website: https://www.vietti.com/en/ Vietti is a historical winery based in the beautiful hilltop village of Castiglione Falletto in the Barolo region.
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Goode’s Cribsheets (5) Victorian Pinot Noir
Victoria may be the second smallest state in Australia, but it has an amazing diversity of wine regions, including many
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Garcés Silva is making some lovely wines in Chile’s Leyda Valley, mostly under the Amayna label
Website: https://vgs.cl/en/ Garcés Silva is a winery whose name isn’t well known, but they are important in the story of
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