New Arrivals September 2025

Lovely dark red fruits on the nose, a gorgeous sultry florality to it, something a little bit savoury too, pencil led and smoke - extremely welcoming. Great succulence on the palate, juicy and alive, really fresh with the charm... Read More

The 2020 Château Mangot Todeschini Distique has a similar celery/vegetal nuance, and although it’s more integrated, it's still a head scratcher. A blend of 40% each of Cabernet Franc and Merlot, with the balance... Read More

Delouvin is a small family-run Champagne house focusing on sustainable viticulture. Using a perpetual solera system, this Champagne blends vintages from 1992 through 2019, creating a complex, multi-layered expression of Pinot... Read More

A touch of stewed plum fruit, though quite reserved aromatically. There's some welcome body and fruit here, and the alcohol is relatively mild. Finishes dry and savory. Well balanced and very drinkable.

One of the world’s greatest expressions of Grenache year-in and year-out, the 2020 Châteauneuf Du Pape Vieilles Vignes is all varietal that was brought up in larger foudre. This cuvée comes from the Charbonnieres... Read More

Mostly Grenache, the 2022 Côtes Du Rhône is terrific, with a lively, ripe, weightless style as well as beautiful strawberry and framboise fruit, medium body, soft, supple tannins, and outstanding length.

A silky, streamlined beam of green plum, star fruit and pear blossoms is dusted with green herbs. Salty density builds, with the purity of fruit bolstered by succulent acidity and chalky mineral notes. Floral high tones grace... Read More

Usually a benchmark for the appellation, Droin's Chablis has a lot more density and concentration than the Petit Chablis. More structure and minerality here. Will be very good and a classic example.

Offering up aromas of apple, citrus oil and white flowers, the 2023 Chablis 1er Cru Montmains is medium to full-bodied, rich and layered, with a long, saline finish. Benoît Droin's immensely dependable wines are among... Read More

The 2023 Ventoux Megaphone is similar to the Pigeoulet yet brings more richness and depth. Framboise, wild strawberries, resinous herbs, and sappy flowers all define the aromatics, and it's medium-bodied, with a supple, layered... Read More

2021 Started off with very little rain, leading to drought conditions in Napa Valley. The winter delivered a scant amount of rain in January and February and then almost nothing after that. While this lack of moisture had the... Read More

The 2008 Semisecco Marsala Superiore Riserva opens with a fresh bouquet, mixing dried flowers with gingery spice and hints of cinnamon stick and dust. It washes across the palate with a pretty inner sweetness and silken textures,... Read More

The 2021 Barolo Bussia is an absolute delight. Aromatic, graceful and light on its feet, the 2021 is pure seduction. Pine, mint, cloves, new leather, licorice, wild cherry and sage are some of the many notes that are laced together... Read More

Not only is Wombat Creek the vineyard with the highest elevation in the collection (100 meters up the hill from Applejack, circa 400 meters elevation), it is also the most southerly. Planted to the I10V1 clone, this is an interesting... Read More

The Applejack Vineyard is planted across the hill, at the same altitude as the Primavera Vineyard on gray clay over mudstone, and picked within a few days of that site. The 2021 Applejack Vineyard Pinot Noir included 50% whole... Read More

Sexton Vineyard is planted on shallow gray dirt over mudstone. The elevation is 220 meters and shows the magic of a warmer part of the Yarra in a relatively cool year. Plum skin, chinotto, fig, blueberries and exotic spices form... Read More

Tasting Notes: Ripe rainier cherry, red plum and blackberry are nestled between notes of rose petal, cedar and turned earth. The wine is vibrant and lively on the palate with a generous finish.

Known for being the first single vineyard Italian Moscato, Bricco Quaglia is full of personality. The nose exhibits aromas of peach and sage with delicate honey notes. On the palate it gives a sequence of flavors ranging from... Read More

The refined, delicious and caressing middleweight flavors possess very good punch on the firm, balanced, moderately dry and bitter lemon-inflected finish. This markedly stony effort is also quite good and worth considering. *Sweet... Read More

Released in numbered bottles (which could explain the high price tag), the Michele Satta 2021 Bolgheri Superiore Marianova is a blend of equal parts Syrah and Sangiovese (aged in barrique and amphorae). It delivers medium-plus... Read More

Winemaker Katie Vogt knocked it out of the park with the 2022 Pahlmeyer Red Wine. It stands right alongside the 2021—an incredible achievement given the heat challenges of the vintage. Yet, this wine delivers depth, structure,... Read More

This wine presents the eye with a magenta hue and a vibrant ruby red rim. The
nose offers up an inviting bouquet of ripe red cherry, damp earth, and nuances of
fresh violet. The palate is elegantly structured, with harmonious... Read More

Once again, Poggerino’s Piero Lanza puts out one of the most successful annata of the vintage thus far. His 11 hectares in Radda sit mainly on Galestro soil with an underpinning of clay rather than sand, giving seriously... Read More

The 2021 Chianti Classico Riserva Bugialla is another superb offering from Poggerino. Dark, virile and strapping in nature, the 2021 is a big, dramatic wine. Macerated black cherry, licorice, dried herbs, lavender and spice are... Read More

The 2022 Soave Classico Monte Grande opens with an intense, mineral-drenched bouquet of crushed stones, wildflowers and ginger-spiked green apples. This is a model of purity, with ripe orchard fruits and green melon tones complicated... Read More

This is very spicy and intense, yet with subtle toasted oak and gorgeous fruit. Perfumed. Full-bodied and very layered with incredible fruit and length. So much spice at the finish. Wonderful length. So typical of wines from 20... Read More

This bottling marks the 50th Lytton Springs from Ridge, and appropriately, the wine is beguiling and intense—pure Americana and emblematic of Ridge's commitment to the heritage varieties and vines in California. Lytton... Read More

The 2020 Barolo Bricco Boschis is a dark, somber wine. Black cherry, lavender, gravel, cloves and incense add to an impression of brooding power. Even so, the 2020 remains medium in body, with classic lines and tons of persistence.... Read More

Such a beautifully balanced wine with tremendous staying power and expressive Stags Leap ironstone minerality with heady sagebrush and conifer notes with white pepper and walnut husk. The wine has an impressive depth of red-toned... Read More

The 2019 Brunello di Montalcino Bacia is deep and complex, mixing black cherries with cedar box, autumnal spice, mentholated herbs and a dusting of cocoa. This speaks in bass tones, with dark, saturating red fruit and minerals... Read More

The wine is tightly coiled and concentrated. It feels almost cinched at the waist, with a fascinating tension between the weight of raspberry, blackberry and strawberry coulis fruit and the wine's verticality, as if it's... Read More

The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon CEANDA is a blend from the Aida and Vineyard 29 estate vineyards. Readers will have to give this a few years in bottle, as the 2021 is incredibly tight today. Super-ripe red cherry, blood orange, spice,... Read More

The Vineyard 29 Cabernet Sauvignon Cru Napa Valley spent 18 months in 65% new barrels, with the rest in once-used oak. Cassis, blueberries, tobacco, and smoky oak notes give way to a medium to full-bodied, nicely concentrated,... Read More