Hippolyte’s Hectare -- Vieux Télégraphe
Darren Gall · 19 October 2026
High Ground
La Crau does not look like promising land. The plateau stands at about 130 metres on the south-eastern edge of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, where the communes...
Domaine Robert Groffier Père & Fils
Darren Gall · Vindochine
There is a small Burgundian irony in Morey-Saint-Denis. The Groffier cellars sit in the middle of the village, next door to Clos de Tart, yet the...
A Quacking Good Merlot
Decoy Limited, Alexander Valley, Merlot, 2022
The Duckhorns have been turning out exceptional Merlot almost from the very beginning in 1978, releasing their first vintage just two years later. Their Duckhorn ‘Three...
The Armagh: Eight Acres of Ambition
The First Qualified Man
Jim Barry came to the Clare Valley in 1947 carrying a piece of paper that nobody else in the district possessed. He had begun studying oenology...
When the Devil Comes to Town
Melbourne, the early nineties. I was a brash young salesman on the floor of an upmarket wine boutique, and Chilean Merlot was one of the easiest sales in the...
Clos du Clocher
Established in 1924, when négociant Jean-Baptiste Audy purchased a small parcel of land on the Pomerol plateau, within sight of the bell tower of the Église Saint-Jean.
Subsequent purchases in 1931 and 1941...
Robert Mondavi 2019 Napa Valley Red Blend
A Vintner’s Vision, A Vintage Realized
“Wine to me is passion. It’s family and friends. It’s warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It’s culture....
1961 Château Latour à Pomerol
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
— Thomas Merton
On a perfectly quiet and very still evening on a lake, so incredibly and perfectly...
