Stoller Estate Pinot Noir Willamette Valley

Think of dishes that echo the wine’s interplay of savor and brightness: wood-fired lamb chops with rosemary and sea salt

For Claudie

powerful yet etched with precision

and crushed raspberry leaf

Made entirely from Sangiovese but classified outside the rules of Brunello and Rosso di Montalcino

with his hometown being Saumur Champigny

truly is a beauty

7 tons / acre) as well as the maximum production of Brunello from a winery as a percentage of total output (68%)

Château Fouquet arrives all bright-eyed and nimble: tart raspberry

farming organically and treating Cabernet Franc less like a grape to tame and more like a grape to listen to

flickers of oak and a juicy acidity are tied together elegantly by the tannins and spice that come from whole-cluster fermentation

and damp earth emerge through the mid-palate