These are not necessarily my highest-scoring wines—but some are! Most of my selections are wines with a very interesting story behind them, as context is very important to me: wine...
Read MorePeter Sisseck tends to harvest early, so he was able to take a break to taste the bottled 2019s and the 2020s from cask while I was at the winery....
Read MoreWine production in the Canary Islands is relatively small, and less than a handful of the wineries I reviewed on this trip existed 10 years ago....
Read MoreIt’s thrilling to see an old wine region come back to life, and that’s what has happened to the Canary Islands in the last decade....
Read MoreThese are not necessarily my highest-scoring wines, but some are! I’ve also included an element of discovery, excitement and novelty in my selection here, with wines from Chile, Argentina, Spain...
Read MoreVintages 2018, 2019 and 2020 represent close to 90% of the wines included in this article, and the trend for a Garnacha revival is stronger than ever....
Read MoreThis report includes five or six new names, which shows how dynamic the region is if 10 of the 40 or so producers are new in the last couple of...
Read MoreThis covers the upcoming wines from the Vega Sicilia Group in Spain. They will be released on February 1 and should reach the markets around March....
Read MoreFor this report, I tasted a majority of wines from 2017 and 2018 (nearly 80% of the notes included here), two very different, almost opposite vintages....
Read MoreRibeiro is like the crossroads of Galician viticulture. It’s where the coastal Atlantic climate meets the more Mediterranean climate from inland, with local grapes from each. Huge diversity....
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