Recent years have seen the rosé category lift its game, with serious producers making seriously good wines. At its best, rosé should be textural, pristine, pure and beguilingly complex with, most importantly, off-the-chart drinkability...

Raphaël Bérêche gets more meticulous with every vintage. As an obvious beneficiary, his Brut Réserve has never tasted finer. “I used to want to shock a little bit,” he says, referring to the buzzing, nervous texture and punchy phenolic character of earlier versions. Today, the wine is considerably more seamless and elegant...

“It seems to vibrate fundamentally, and the interplay of lightness and delicacy with darkness and depth must be tasted to be believed.” Stuart Pigott’s note on the Schlossberg Sainte Catherine sums up the brilliance of the Faller family’s 2023 release. Intensity, as always, comes as standard; yet the new vintage has a racier, airier and more mineral feel than the...

Jean-Baptiste Souillard is a hidden gem in the northern Rhône Valley. We’ve been visiting his cellar on and off since 2018, and it  has always been one of the most memorable and insightful visits we make in France...

As the weather turns bright and the seafood counters start calling, we’re thrilled to present a focused Chablis offer from two Estates that deliver translucent terroir expressions at every step of the ladder: Moreau-Naudet and Bernard Defaix...

It comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with this elite grower that the Bachelet brothers have produced an outstanding collection of 2023 Burgundies. Despite the talk about harvest volumes, their white grape yields were slightly lower than in 2022. Marc Bachelet suggested that their organic farming practices led...