You have your vintages, and you have your vintages— those golden seasons when Bacchus seems to descend from Olympus to shower his especial blessing across much of old Europe indiscriminately; years where drawing overfine distinctions between Pomerol and Margaux, Volnay and Nuits, or Barolo and Barbaresco seems churlish; harvests where the sheer deliciousness of the … Read More
Jérôme Dehours farms 42 different vineyards in three distinct villages on the southern side of the Marne River. Jérôme’s 14.5 hectares are split between the villages of Mareuil-la-Port, Oeuilly, Cerseuil and Troissy, in this quiet corner of the Marne. This area is just south of the Marne river at Châtillon-sur-Marne and Cuisles, where Cédric Moussé … Read More
Above: Roberto Damonte (left) with his brother Massimo. It goes without saying that the scarcity of properly aged wine from the Langhe is extreme. From our producers, with rare exception, cellar-aged wines exist only for special occasions – and long gone are the days when producers had any unsold vintages they were willing to release. … Read More
Pierreclos is a village that could be on the cover of “Quaint French Towns Monthly.” It has everything one would expect from a village that neighbors some of the most beautiful vineyards in the world: old cobblestoned streets, winding roads that would give Jeff Gordon a mild heart attack, the kind of boulangerie that only … Read More
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