2023
2023
Le Coste 2023 Litrozzo Rosso 1 L
Italian Red
The blend includes Sangiovese and Merlot. Fermentation is spontaneous with native yeasts after destemming, and the wine undergoes eight days in concrete before malolactic fermentation without skins. It is bottled without fining or stabilization. Cherry and orange accompany a fresh, fruity profile. The fruit comes from Bomarzo and Montefiascone, and the release is classified as natural, organic and vegan.
Emandare Vineyard 2023 Wolff Vineyard Pinot Noir
Canadian Red
Red cherry, cranberry, wild rose, mushroom, subtle apple and dusty minerality shape the profile. The palate has a clean texture. Pinot Noir comes from thirty-five-year-old vines and is fermented and aged in neutral French oak. Bottling takes place without fining or filtration. Cellar work follows a minimal-intervention approach. The old-vine site is in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.
Soalheiro 2023 Primeiras Vinhas Alvarinho Monção e Melgaço
Portuguese White
Bright lemon to golden-yellow colour accompanies ripe fruit, spice and buttery notes. This dry Alvarinho has a full body with lively acidity. Grapes from the first vineyard planted in the mid-seventies and selected parcels more than thirty years old are harvested by hand. Most fermentation occurs in stainless steel, with fifteen percent in used oak vessels. The wine remains on its lees with bâtonnage and ages for six months.
Domaine Georges Glantenay 2023 Bourgogne Aligoté Vieilles Vignes
French White
Citrus and white flowers accompany fullness and taut acidity on the palate. Aligoté from Burgundy is harvested by hand from vines averaging forty-five years of age. Fermentation and ageing take place in oak. Production amounted to 1,800 bottles for this release. This dry white comes from Bourgogne AOP and contains twelve and a half percent alcohol by volume.
Wasenhaus 2023 Grand Ordinaire
German Red
Fresh herbs, tobacco leaves, bright red cherry and fresh leather accompany this dry natural red from Baden. The palate has fresh acidity and tannins, with cherry and red plum. Spätburgunder undergoes carbonic maceration and is pressed after ten days, while fermentation is spontaneous. The wine contains twelve and a half percent alcohol. Air softens the palate and brings greater balance.
Feudi di San Gregorio 2023 Pietracalda Fiano di Avellino Riserva DOCG
Italian White
Straw-yellow colour accompanies chamomile, fresh flowers, white-fleshed fruit, candied citron and Mediterranean scrub. The palate is soft and balanced, with savoury freshness, lively fruit and a menthol note. This Fiano is made as a reserve bottling in Fiano di Avellino DOCG, Campania. Fermentation and six months of maturation take place in stainless steel. Alcohol is thirteen percent.
Château Tour Léognan 2023 Pessac-Léognan Blanc
French White
Pale yellow colour has a brilliant golden aspect. Grapefruit, citrus, peach and a subtle wood note appear in a rich profile with acidity and balance. Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon each account for half of the blend. Fermentation and maturation take place in barrels and foudres for six months with lees stirring and fifteen percent new wood. The vineyard soils combine deep gravel with clay and limestone.
Bruno Rocca 2023 Langhe Rosato
Italian Rosé
Cherry-red colour accompanies raspberry and strawberry. The rosé has concentration, crisp freshness and a red-fruit profile. Nebbiolo comes from young vines in the producer's vineyards. Grapes were harvested by hand, destemmed and sorted as whole berries into stainless-steel tanks. The wine then spent several months in stainless steel before bottling. It is dry and carries the Langhe designation.
Baldovar 923 2023 Cerro Negro Mencía
Spanish Red
Red berries, flowers, wild herbs and spice accompany freshness and minerality. Ruby colour has violet reflections, with lavender, geranium, strawberry, sour cherry jam, toasted wood, soft earth, structure and salinity. Mencía comes from forty-year-old vines at 980 metres on schist. Grapes were harvested by hand, and seventy percent of the wine aged in clay vessels. Production totalled 5,890 bottles.
Domaine de Gaubourg 2023 Mon Garenne Grolleau Noir IGP Val de Loire
French Red
Grolleau Noir comes from fifty- to sixty-year-old vines in the Grand Pierre sector. The shallow sandy-silt soil lies over grey schist crossed by quartz. Grapes were harvested by hand and destemmed. Maceration in vat lasted about three weeks. Ageing ran for one year, with half the wine in barrels that had previously held three wines. The finished wine is red and classified IGP Val de Loire.
Pegasus Bay 2023 Sauvignon Semillon Waipara Valley
New Zealand White
Guava, pineapple and melon lead the tropical profile, with grapefruit, honeysuckle, crushed herbs and struck match. Rich texture meets crisp acidity and a phenolic drive, with a prolonged finish. The blend is approximately seventy percent Sauvignon Blanc and thirty percent Semillon. Most Sauvignon fermented in stainless steel, while Semillon fermented in oak puncheons. Both varieties spent about ten months on their yeast lees, and the bottled wine aged another year before release.
Meyer Family Vineyards 2023 McLean Creek Road Vineyard Pinot Noir
Canadian Red
Bing cherry, black raspberry, beetroot, pepper and toasted oak form the profile. The fruit is gently destemmed by gravity into open-top fermenters with twenty-five percent whole clusters. A cold soak precedes a two-week indigenous-yeast fermentation with gentle hand plunging. After fermentation and a post-maceration period, the wine moves to French oak, twenty percent new, for eleven months. It is unfined and coarsely filtered, with ripe fruit and a lasting finish.
Tenute Vignola 2023 Jagamu Vermentino di Gallura DOCG
Italian White
Intense straw yellow with golden reflections accompanies yellow flowers, ripe fruit, citrus and delicate sweet notes. The palate has mineral freshness, pronounced savouriness and an elegant, silky texture. Vermentino is hand-harvested in small crates, refrigerated overnight and pressed as whole clusters without crushing or destemming. Only free-run juice is used. It settles at 7°C for seventy-two hours before about two weeks of alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel.
Diego Conterno 2023 Baluma Langhe Nebbiolo
Italian Red
Red berries, cherries, wild flowers and warm spice appear in a medium-bodied profile with silky texture and ripe tannins. Nebbiolo comes from the Ferrione vineyard near Monforte d'Alba, on a west- to southwest-facing slope with clay and calcareous marl. The grapes are harvested by hand and destemmed. Fermentation uses native yeasts, followed by five months in 500-litre oak and four months in cement.
Borgogno 2023 Langhe Bompè Barbera
Italian Red
Red berries, forest fruit, smoky notes and salinity shape this Barbera. The fruit comes from the Bompè plot at Madonna di Como in the Langhe, where vines grow on sandy, chalky soils with abundant stones. Grapes are harvested by hand and ferment spontaneously in cement for about ten days. Ageing lasts one year in large, lightly toasted French oak barrels.
Envínate 2023 Linit Blanco
Spanish White
Old-vine Pardilla, also known as Marisancho, comes from vineyards around Almansa in Castilla-La Mancha. White fruit and Mediterranean herbs appear in a full profile with balanced acidity and a lingering finish. The wine is sold without a denomination of origin and is aged in barrel. Four winemakers work together on the project: Laura Ramos, José Martínez, Roberto Santana and Alfonso Torrente.
Kutatás 2023 Whole Cluster Pinot Noir Vancouver Island
Canadian Red
Stewed black cherry, cola, raspberry, liquorice, herbal and savoury notes shape this Pinot Noir. Clone 114 fruit comes from Patricia Bay in North Saanich on Vancouver Island. The dry-farmed vines grow in clay soil. Whole bunches ferment spontaneously and remain on skins for six weeks. Ageing takes place in two- to four-year-old French oak barrels, and the wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Elian Da Ros 2023 Abouriou Côtes du Marmandais
French Red
The red profile is supple, fruity and spicy. Its parcels have clay-gravel and clay-limestone soils. Grapes are harvested and sorted by hand. Semi-carbonic maceration lasts about ten days with indigenous yeasts. Maturation lasts twelve months in large oak and used barrels. The wine contains thirteen percent alcohol, and Abouriou is the principal red grape in the cuvée.
Anne Gros & Jean-Paul Tollot 2023 L’Ô de la Vie Minervois
French Red
Deep ruby colour accompanies garrigue, wild strawberry, cassis, spice and mint. The attack is lively, while the palate is supple and soft. Made entirely from Syrah, the wine comes from clay-limestone and sandy soils with south and southeast exposure. The farming is organic, the style is dry and red, and the wine contains fourteen point five percent alcohol.
Inama 2023 Vigneti di Foscarino Soave Classico
Italian White
Intense straw-yellow colour shows flint reflections. Slightly smoky notes sit with sage, myrtle and tangerine, while the palate is juicy, dry and smooth. Yellow field flowers, spring blossom, wet flint, lemon-drop candy, graphite and bitter almond are also present. Garganega from Soave Classico was fermented and aged in oak for six months, developing structure and volume.
Domaine François Chapuis 2023 Les Confréries Bourgogne Pinot Noir
French Red
Black cherry, supple red fruit, savoury herbs, mineral notes, iodine and fine spice are present. The palate is light, fruity and supple, with pleasant fine tannins and a slight green note. The young vines grow at Les Cras on the slopes of Mancey. Maceration lasts ten to fifteen days, depending on the vintage. About one quarter of the wine is matured in barrels.
Artemis Karamolegos 2023 Terra Nera Assyrtiko White Wine
Greek White
Melon, pear, citrus fruit, herbal hints and mineral notes are present. The palate is fresh, with balanced acidity and a long finish. Assyrtiko comes from vineyards at lower elevations on Santorini, where the vines average fifty years of age. White-wine vinification takes place at low temperature, and the wine remains on its lees for six months.
Domaine Fumey-Chatelain 2023 No Sin Tou Tsefs Arbois
French Red
Wild strawberry, raspberry, cherry and redcurrant are present with floral notes, white pepper, dried leaves and wet stone. The palate is light and juicy, with fine tannins and lively acidity. The finish is long, saline and lightly spicy. Pinot Noir, Poulsard and Trousseau receive a short maceration. Maturation lasts ten months in foudres and used barrels.
Domaine du Vieux Lazaret 2023 Châteauneuf-du-Pape
French Red
Cherry and anise appear with red berries and sweet spice. Rooibos tea and sandalwood smoke are also present. The palate is textured, generous and dense, with polished tannins and a full body. The blend consists of sixty percent Grenache, twenty-five percent Syrah, ten percent Mourvèdre and five percent Cinsault. The wine is dry, red and fifteen percent alcohol.
I Vigneri 2023 Aurora Etna White Wine
Italian White
The colour is straw yellow with golden reflections. White peach, tropical fruit, butter, citrus and mineral notes are present. The palate is fresh and velvety. Beeswax and aromatic herbs are also present. The finish is long. Grapes are harvested by hand from volcanic terraces. Fermentation is spontaneous with indigenous yeasts in stainless-steel vats. Maturation lasts several months in stainless steel.
Antinori Castello della Sala 2023 Conte della Vipera Umbria IGT
Italian White
Straw-yellow colour with bright green hues accompanies pink grapefruit, lychee, sage and elderflower. The palate is supple and fresh, with lime and pineapple in the finish. Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon are hand harvested, cooled before gentle pressing and fermented in stainless steel below sixteen degrees Celsius. The wine is then held at about ten degrees to prevent malolactic fermentation.
Albino Rocca 2023 Nebbiolo d’Alba
Italian Red
Ruby colour tending toward garnet accompanies violet, humus, woodland spice, red fruit, dried flowers, liquorice and Earl Grey tea. Fine, supple tannins and a long finish are present. Nebbiolo comes from Terra di Mezzo in San Rocco Seno d'Elvio, where vines between fifteen and sixty years old grow in calcareous-clay soil. Maturation lasts roughly twelve months in large Austrian and German oak.
Domaine Gérard Persenot 2023 Bourgogne Côtes d’Auxerre Pinot Noir
French Red
This still red is made from Pinot Noir in Bourgogne Côtes d'Auxerre. Gérard Persenot is among the growers working in the roughly fifty-hectare Vaux vineyard above the Yonne valley. Vaux was replanted in the 1970s. Its south-southeast-facing slopes carry Kimmeridgian soils, while Portlandian soils occur on the plateau. The domaine is based in Saint-Bris-le-Vineux, France.
Tenuta delle Terre Nere 2023 Etna Bianco
Italian White
White pepper, lemon pulp, citrus, flint, concentrated fruit, mineral notes and salinity appear in a tense profile. The blend is 70% Carricante, 20% Catarratto, 5% Grecanico and 5% Inzolia. Grapes are gently pressed; cold static settling and temperature-controlled fermentation in stainless steel follow. Alcohol is 12.5%. Pairings include white meat, roasted fish and pasta.
Jules Métras 2023 Chica Vin de France Rouge
French Red
Smoky notes accompany tart, juicy red fruit, and the finish is salivating and lightly peppered. The Gamay undergoes cold carbonic maceration as whole bunches. No oenological inputs or added sulphites are used, and the wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered. Total sulphites remain below 20 mg/L. Serve at 14°C and decant for thirty minutes. Suggested pairings include charcuterie and cheese.