2022
2022
Domaine de Baumard 2022 Pic Martin Sec Anjou
French White
The colour is pale straw with brassy highlights. Green apple, tart peach, lanolin, chamomile, crushed stone and almond are present. Stone fruit, green pear, white flowers and linen are also present. The palate is light and crisp, with balanced acidity. The finish is long, with sea-salt and quince notes. Grapes are harvested by hand, pressed gently, fermented at low temperature and matured for nine months in stainless-steel tanks.
Day Wines 2022 Infinite Air Castles Gamay-Dolcetto Willamette Valley
American Red
Rosy florals, blueberries, boysenberry, grilled plum, cracked pepper, dark berries, obsidian minerals, petrichor and summer forest shape the profile. Bright acidity appears with a plush, velvety mid-palate and a long, firm structure. The blend is fifty-eight percent Gamay and forty-two percent Dolcetto. Partial destemming leaves twenty percent whole clusters. Native fermentation lasts twenty-four days, followed by eleven months in neutral French oak.
Gérard Bertrand Château L’Hospitalet 2022 Grand Vin Rouge La Clape
French Red
The colour is bright ruby. Spice and ripe strawberry aromas are present. The tannins are silky and fine, and the fruit character is fresh. Syrah, Grenache and Mourvèdre form the blend. The grapes are hand harvested, sorted and destemmed. Each variety ferments separately in temperature-controlled tanks with twenty to twenty-five days of maceration, followed by twelve to sixteen months in new 225-litre barrels.
Lariana Cellars 2022 Twenty Two Okanagan Valley Red
Canadian Red
Cabernet Sauvignon accounts for sixty-four percent of the blend, with Syrah and Carménère each at eighteen percent. Cabernet and Carménère are estate grown, while Syrah comes from Red Brick Vineyard. Fruit is destemmed and hand sorted before crushing. Maturation lasts sixteen months in oak. Blackcurrant, dark fruit, baker's chocolate and vanilla are present. The tannins are pleasant and approachable.
Vincent Ruiz 2022 Prima Materia Grenache
French Red
Ripe redcurrant, tangerine, dried herbs, earth, citrus, red fruit and a touch of bitterness form the profile. The wine has good concentration. Grenache comes from Ardèche and carries twelve percent alcohol. Hand-harvested fruit undergoes whole-bunch fermentation and about fourteen days of maceration in stainless steel with indigenous yeast, followed by eight months in the same vessel. It is unfined and unfiltered.
Borgogno 2022 No Name Langhe Nebbiolo DOC
Italian Red
Ruby-red colour with garnet highlights accompanies violet, rose, ripe fruit and spice. The palate is velvety and balanced, with polished tannins and earthy flavours. Nebbiolo accounts for the entire composition. Maturation lasts at least three years in cask and six months in bottle. The fruit comes from vineyards around Barolo with south, southeast and southwest exposures on calcareous-clay soils.
Domaine Georges Glantenay 2022 Bourgogne Pinot Noir Maison Dieu
French Red
Raspberry, cherry and earth appear in an airy aromatic profile. The palate is energetic and delineated, with a silky, supple texture, pure red fruit and concentration. Pinot Noir is fully destemmed. The fruit comes from Pommard and Volnay parcels; the Volnay portion accounts for roughly seventy percent. The harvest was about half a normal crop, and the finish is lightly austere.
Echo Bay 2022 Petit Verdot Carménère
Canadian Red
Petit Verdot and Carménère each account for half of the blend. Wild-yeast fermentation is used, maturation lasts eighteen months in neutral French oak, and the wine is bottled without fining or filtration. The fruit comes from a five-acre southwest-facing slope in Okanagan Falls. The property has served as a gathering place for the family and its friends for more than five generations.
Domaine Borgeot 2022 Bouzeron Les Tournelles
French White
Pale yellow colour accompanies white fruit, floral notes and subtle minerality. The palate is fresh and lively, with balanced acidity and a persistent finish. Aligoté comes from the Les Tournelles site within Bouzeron. The vineyard covers about one and a half hectares in the northeastern part of the appellation, where the domaine produces roughly five thousand bottles in a typical year.
Domaine des Escaravailles 2022 Argilla ad Argillam Rasteau
French Red
Purple-red colour accompanies wild blackberry, star anise, rosemary, graphite, mineral notes and salinity. The palate is ample and includes wild fruit. Grenache and Syrah come from the Sambiches site at 340 metres, on red clay and limestone. Grapes are hand harvested and fully destemmed, then fermented separately in concrete. Maturation lasts nine months in amphorae. Serve at 16°C.
Brendan Stater-West 2022 Saumur Rouge
French Red
Cabernet Franc from young vines in the La Ripaille parcel shows redcurrant, pomegranate and earth, with mushroom, spice and humus also present. The fruit is fresh, the texture silky and the tannins fine. The vines grow on clay-limestone soils, and the wine has medium structure; suggested serving temperature is 16°C. Pairings include red meat, white meat, veal, sausage and cheese.
Olivier Rivière 2022 Les Jardins d’Édina Côtes de Bourg
French Red
Fresh cherry and raspberry notes sit above a delicate texture, with acidity and gentle sweetness in balance. The Merlot comes from vines more than twenty-five years old on silty soils with clay, gravel and clay-limestone around Bourg and Lansac. Grapes are hand harvested, destemmed and macerated for three weeks, with indigenous fermentation in concrete. Maturation combines concrete and 300-litre barrels.
Castellare di Castellina 2022 Chianti Classico Riserva DOCG
Italian Red
Ruby red in colour, with red fruit, liquorice, currant and a slight touch of vanilla. The palate is round, soft and savoury, with tannins that become more velvety over time, while acidity and persistence shape the aftertaste. The blend is ninety-five percent Sangioveto and five percent Canaiolo. Vinification takes place in steel, followed by fifteen months in French oak and fifteen months in bottle.
Giovanni Ederle 2022 Valpolicella Superiore DOP
Italian Red
Ruby red in colour, with ripe cherry, graphite, violet petals, red rose, spice and balsamic notes. The palate is warm, balanced, savoury and fresh. The blend is fifty percent Corvina, thirty percent Corvinone and twenty percent Rondinella. The vines grow at 220 metres on clay and limestone, and the grapes are selected by hand. Maturation includes twelve months in large French oak barrels.
Lariana Cellars 2022 Carménère
Canadian Red
Dried rose petals, wild berries and cherries shape the aromatic profile. Blackberry, grilled herbs and white pepper appear on the palate, supported by finely textured tannins that build toward the finish. The wine is made entirely from estate-grown Carménère. Harvest took place over October thirteenth and fourteenth. Three barrels were selected for bottling the following April.
Poderi Colla 2022 Costa Bruna Barbera d’Alba
Italian Red
Black cherry, chocolate, liquorice and a hint of meatiness form the aromatic profile. Wild berry fruit and bright acidity accompany a finely textured palate with a subtle rustic edge. The finish is quiet and lingering. Barbera grapes come from a west-facing vineyard at 250 metres and are harvested by hand in small baskets. Maceration lasts ten to twelve days before eight to twelve months of maturation in Slavonian and French oak.
Occhipinti 2022 Siccagno Nero d’Avola
Italian Red
Intense, bright ruby colour introduces berry jam, Mediterranean scrub, cinchona, tamarind and spice. The palate is powerful and vigorous, with austere tannins, freshness and glyceric softness. Bitter cocoa appears on the long finish. Made entirely from Nero d'Avola, the red wine carries the Terre Siciliane IGT designation and contains thirteen percent alcohol. Suggested pairings include lamb, mature cheese, pasta and beef fillet.
Wasenhaus 2022 Spätburgunder
German Red
Delicate cherry and violet are joined by juniper, bay leaf and a soy-sauce spice note. The palate is cool and spare, with a subtle outline of oak, cocoa bean, freshness and firm tannins. Lots from different parcels are handled separately: some use whole clusters and others are destemmed. Overall whole-cluster use is twenty percent, and pressing follows about two weeks.
Oddero 2022 Monlià Derthona Timorasso
Italian White
Bright straw yellow with green reflections, the white wine combines white-fleshed fruit, wildflowers and light citrus notes. The palate is fresh and savoury, with good structure and persistent mineral character. Grapes are harvested by hand and gently pressed. Fermentation takes place in temperature-controlled stainless steel, followed by about ten months on fine lees in steel with periodic bâtonnage.
Domaine de la Touraize 2022 Les Voisines Chardonnay Arbois
French White
Textured and crunchy, the Chardonnay carries slight oxidative notes. The vines grow across three hills north of Arbois on gravel over marl, limestone and blue marl. Whole clusters are pressed into vat, then the settled wine is racked into barrel for indigenous fermentation. It ages on fine lees for two winters in oak puncheons and is bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Domaine Rebourgeon-Mure 2022 Bourgogne Rouge Maison Dieu
French Red
Vibrant ruby in colour, the Pinot Noir combines cherry and blackberry with red-fruit flavour and an earthy undertone. Fine tannins accompany a medium-bodied palate with balanced structure and acidity. The finish lingers. Alcohol is twelve and a half percent. The vines are managed under lutte raisonnée, and the red wine comes from Burgundy in France.
Wildman Wines 2022 Astro Bunny Pét-Nat 1.5 L
Australian Sparkling
Vermentino, Zibibbo, Grüner Veltliner, Nero d’Avola and Verdejo make up the blend. The wine is pale, hazy orange, with spice, white pepper and cut lime. Peach and nectarine appear with watermelon. The fruit comes from Adelaide Hills, Riverland and McLaren Vale sites. Zibibbo receives twenty-four hours of skin contact, and secondary fermentation takes place in bottle after frozen juice is added.
Ken Forrester 2022 The FMC Chenin Blanc
South African White
Chenin comes from low-yielding bush vines planted in nineteen seventy-four on Clovelly soil. The fruit is hand selected at full maturity. Fermentation and maturation take place over twelve months in new four-hundred-litre barrels, with time on the lees. Pear, lemon, peach and apricot appear with honeysuckle, dried apricot, vanilla and honey. The profile is fresh, and the finish is long and pithy.
Domaine des Pasquiers 2022 Gigondas
French Red
Equal parts Grenache and Syrah are vinified and aged for nine months in concrete tanks. Red and dark fruit appear with clove and wet tobacco. Dark cherry, garrigue, mulberry and spice accompany graphite, earth, mineral and meaty notes. The wine is medium- to full-bodied, with depth, velvety tannins and a long finish. The vineyards are certified organic.
Domaine des Marnes Blanches 2022 Chardonnay En Quatre Vis Côtes du Jura
French White
Chardonnay comes from vines about forty-five years old on marl soils. The certified-organic vineyard also uses biodynamic practices. Grapes are harvested by hand with selection, then undergo alcoholic and malolactic fermentation in 500-litre demi-muids with indigenous yeasts. The wine remains in demi-muids for twelve months and receives very little sulphur at bottling. It is a still white with twelve and a half percent alcohol.
Maison En Belles Lies 2022 Hautes-Côtes de Beaune Rouge
French Red
Pinot Noir grows on clay-limestone soils in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune. Harvesting is manual, with selection into small twenty-kilogram boxes and a yield of about forty-five hectolitres per hectare. Whole clusters undergo fermentation in wooden vats for twenty-four to twenty-eight days. The wine then spends fifteen months in used 228-litre barrels without added sulphur before being bottled without fining or filtration. Alcohol is eleven and a half percent.
Black Hills 2022 Nota Bene Okanagan Valley
Canadian Red
Dewberry, black cherry, herbal notes and floral lift are joined by redcurrant, sweet mint and raspberry blossom. The palate is rich and fresh, with fine-grained tannins. The blend is forty-six percent Merlot, thirty-six percent Cabernet Sauvignon and eighteen percent Cabernet Franc. Wild yeasts conduct fermentation, and ageing lasts eighteen months in French-oak barriques and puncheons, forty-seven percent new. Alcohol is fourteen and a half percent.
Tenuta Mazzolino 2022 Noir Pinot Nero dell’Oltrepò Pavese
Italian Red
Deep, bright ruby colour has a garnet edge. Raspberry, pomegranate, tree bark, earth and white pepper develop into curry spice and tart red cherry. Roasted red berries appear with earthy and floral notes. The palate has silky texture, supple tannins, juicy acidity and concentrated fruit. Pinot Nero comes from the Regina vineyard, with clay-loam topsoil, sand veins and chalky bedrock. Maturation lasts twelve months in 228-litre pièces.
Domaine Guiberteau 2022 Saumur Blanc Le Bourg
French White
Lemon, almond and apple flavours appear with chilli spice and salty notes. The white is light bodied and firmly poised. Chenin Blanc comes from a one-hectare plot in Brézé, below Clos des Carmes, on sandy-clay soil over soft tuffeau limestone. Vines were planted in the 1940s. Whole bunches are pressed, fermented naturally and matured for twelve months in used barrels.
Château Cantemerle 2022 Haut-Médoc
French Red
Bright fresh fruit and violet are present in the bouquet. The palate has soft tannins, creamy structure and a smooth texture, with harmony and balance. The blend is seventy percent Cabernet Sauvignon, twenty percent Merlot, and five percent each Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. The wine matures for twelve months in French oak, using new, one-fill and two-fill barrels. The vines grow on gravel with quaternary silica.