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...
On the Bench -four French wines that beautifully balance tradition, freshness, and value.
Château Faget, Saint-Estèphe 2023
Chevalier Noël, Bordeaux Supérieur 2020
Château Hauterive, Médoc 2022
Château Bellevue la Forêt, Fronton 2024
Château Faget, Saint-Estèphe 2023
A small, high-quality producer...
Murmure de Larcis Ducasse 2019
The whisper of place
The 11-hectare vineyard sits on the hallowed south-facing slopes of Saint-Émilion’s renowned La Grande Côte (Côte du Pavie), in the limestone and Molasse du Fronsadais soils between...
A Wine for One’s Home
Cambodian businessman and entrepreneur Edward Chea has taken a long and somewhat circuitous route to wine. It is a journey that has involved travelling the world over and cultivating...
Mas Amiel Origine 2017
Varieties: Grenache (from old vines more than a century in age), Carignan, Syrah
Region: Maury, Roussillon
Maturation: 2 years in large oak casks
From the ancient lands of the Cathars, in a valley of...
Tasting with Thibault
A fascinating tasting of Troplong Mondot wines with my old friend and great man of wine, Thibault Odent. Thibault is genuinely funny, irreverent, and cheekily mischievous; tasting wine with him is...
Where is Charm in the Afternoon? (with the Monday Angel)
High above an ancient river, its source far from here, up in the world’s tallest mountains, I am swept away on a cloud of euphoric,...
DUCKHORN
The Duckhorn Winery is tucked between the Napa River and the Silverado Trail, north of Saint Helena. Dan Duckhorn and his wife Margaret first planted vines here in 1976 and spent almost fifty years...
