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Coastal Chile: An Unfamiliar Terroir Worth Exploring
Chile, featured
, Oct 2025
Up and down Chile’s expansive coastline, vineyards are subjected to a harsh, cold climate that lends both white and red wines a distinctive profile. This report features 200 wines from Itata to Atacama, representing the diverse array of styles on offer.
A Vintage with Issues: Burgundy 2021
burgfest, burgundy, featured, France: Burgundy
, Oct 2025
The cool 2021 growing season in Burgundy marked a departure from the run of “solar” vintages, hailed by some as a return to classicism and dismissed by others as a year of underripe wines. The annual Burgfest tasting presented the opportunity to examine over 400 reds and whites, tasted blind by peer group, to see how the 2021s have shaped up.
Friuli’s 2023 Vintage: Great Wine in the Face of Great Sacrifice
Italy: North, Slovenia, featured
, Oct 2025
Many regions in Italy struggled through an extremely trying growing season in 2023, but Friuli-Venezia Giulia endured the worst of it. Top producers made exceptional wines, but only through immense sacrifice. In some cases, the wines are absolutely brilliant, wonderfully unique and exciting. In others, they are a total let-down. It’s a vintage in which consumers will need to be selective.
Day by Day: South Africa in 2025
South Africa, South Africa featured, featured
, Oct 2025
South African wine is as much about the place and the people as it is about what’s in the bottle. That’s true for every wine region, but in the Cape, it reaches its zenith. This report focuses on nearly 800 new releases that reaffirm the heights of quality and astonishing value on display, but also gives a feel for day-to-day life through the eyes of a visiting wine writer.
2021 Barolo Part Two: Restless Energy
Italy: Piedmont, featured
, Sep 2025
I was once again deeply impressed with the 2021 Barolos. My summer tastings focused on late releases and other wines I missed earlier in the year, along with a few 2021s I had a chance to revisit. Those tastings confirmed that 2021 is an exceptional year in terms of both quality and consistency. As I have written before, savvy Piedmont fans should note that it will be some time before another vintage of this caliber enters the market.
Veneto Rising: Amarone, Soave and Beyond
Italy: North, featured
, Sep 2025
Veneto is in a state of constant evolution, and its wines deserve attention now more than ever. From ageworthy Amarone to the remarkable rebirth of Soave Classico and the rising star of Valpolicella Superiore, quality is soaring as new styles and regions emerge.
El Bierzo & Galicia: The Sil River Illuminates a Different Side of Spanish Wine
Spain, featured
, Sep 2025
The Sil River connects wine regions from Bierzo to Valdeorras and Ribeira Sacra, before continuing as a tributary of the Miño toward Ribeiro and Rías Baixas. In this report, I explore the many expressions of Mencía, Godello, Treixadura and Albariño that can be found along its shores.
2025 Germany Pre-Auctions Report: Trier & Bad Kreuznach - Sleek, Svelte and Sensational
Germany, featured, germany: Mosel, Germany: Saar, Germany: Ruwer
, Sep 2025
The two main German auctions in Trier and Bad Kreuznach will take place on November 7 and 8, respectively. In Trier, Riesling lovers can look forward to Kabinetts, Spätlesen and a handful of Auslesen and dry wines from Mosel, Saar and Ruwer, many of them in double magnums and even Methuselahs. Bad Kreuznach offers thrilling dry Rieslings, Kabinetts, one Sekt and one stellar Eiswein from Nahe, Rheinhessen and Pfalz, supplemented by Pinot Noirs from Nahe and Ahr.
Hand Over the Keys: Brane-Cantenac 1928-2023
France: Bordeaux featured Verticals and Retrospectives, France: Bordeaux, featured
, Sep 2025
To mark 100 years since the Lurton family bought Brane-Cantenac, Henri Lurton organised a vertical tasting that demonstrated how this Margaux wine has improved so dramatically during his reign. A few gems then showed that his ancestors also had a magic touch when it came to turning grapes into wine.
Making the Case for Campania
Italy: Center & South, featured
, Sep 2025
Campania is one of Italy's most underappreciated winegrowing regions, consistently producing world-class, ageworthy wines that offer outstanding value. Yet Campania remains largely overlooked. Despite its historical challenges, a quiet revolution led by dedicated winemakers has positioned Campanian wine to become a cornerstone for serious collectors.