2022 Domaine Jean Foillard - Fleurie

2023 Azores Wine Company - Pico Rose Vulcanico

2021 Boncie - Chianti Classico DOCG Le Trame

The 2021 Le Trame is everything I hoped it would be. Intensely aromatic, silky and deep, with explosive fruit, the 2021 is a rapturously beautiful wine that captures proprietor Giovanna Morgante at her very best. Readers will have to be patient, as the...

2022 Arianna Occhipinti - Sicilia Rosso DOC Frappato

The 2022 Il Frappato is an understated beauty. Blackberries and currants swirl up from the glass, accentuated by hints of incense and rubbed sage. This splashes across the palate, soft-textured and pliant, with crisp red and black fruits that flow acro...

2023 Marcel Lapierre - Morgon

This bottle of 2023 Morgon comes from the first bottling run completed in March 2024 (there will be five bottlings until September). Lapierre told me that this is destined for markets in Japan, Canada and a little for the US. The nose reveals dark berr...