Marvels on the Margins: The Great Overlooked Wines of Italy, Part 2 - Vino Nobile di Montepulciano
Marvels on the Margins: The Great Overlooked Wines of Italy, Part 1 - Introduction
Best Champagne for New Years - 2023 Edition
Grower Champagne: A guide to the best bubbles in the world and what makes them different from the Grandes Marques
Champagne is the world’s most famous sparkling wine. Hailing from the Champagne regions of France, its biggest names are among the biggest names in wine: Moet, Dom Perignon, Veuve Clicquot, Cristal.
But there’s another side to Champagne: a universe of small-scale producers preserving ancient family farming traditions and bottling wines you’ve never heard of.
These are the Grower Champagnes.
The Best Barolo Vintages: From 1961 to Today
Wines of Portugal: 2023 USA Grand Tasting Tour Kicks Off March 30th
2019 Barolo Vintage: Great Wines with Long Futures
The 2019s remind me of many 2016s, except at this stage they are a little more powerful and a touch less transparent. The wines are balanced with elegant tannins and good acidity. A few wines are approachable now, but in general this is a vintage for cellaring.
Here is a quick 2019 vintage report along with my first impressions of what is shaping up to be an excellent vintage.
Flatiron's Guide to Austrian Wine, Part 7: Wagram
It may seem ironic but we think of the Wagram as the most quintessentially Austrian wine region. Ironic, since it’s the newest DAC (“Districtus Austriae Controllatus,” Austria’s equivalent of the old French DOC) and far from Austria’s most famous region.
But it’s hard to think of a region that is more uniquely Austrian.
Flatiron's Guide to Austrian Wine, Part 6: Guide to the Vineyards, Wines and Wine Taverns of Vienna
What is the greatest Wine City in the world? Vienna gets my vote. That’s probably not what you’d expect. Vienna’s certainly not the best city in the world for finding the broadest selection of the world’s wines (that has to be New York)
2018 Barolo Vintage: Challenging Vintage, Good Buying Opportunities
Flatiron’s Guide to German Wine
Few other wine countries garner the passionate, cult-like following that Germany does. Its fans—us among them—dissect and detail every village and vineyard, every bottle and producer—and yet, strangely, it’s often misunderstood and underappreciated by the greater wine-drinking public.
Well, we’re not afraid to say it: Germany is one of the world’s greatest wine countries, and we’re here to show you why.