Doug Decants: Piquentum Wines
This is a tale of a son of a Frenchwoman and an Istrian father, growing native Croatian grapes and making them in an old Mussolini-era concrete water tank. Born in…
Doug Decants: Filippi Wines
Soave is normally not sophisticated. At worst it may be a sulphurous travesty and even the better examples tend to be neutrality personified with all the fruit of the thinnest…
Doug Decants: Georgas Retsina, Greece
Buy me brandy, A snifter of wine. Who am I kidding? I'll drink turpentine. Barney Gumble, 'A Boozehound Named Barney', The Simpson's (a parody of 'Feed The Birds' from The…
Doug decants: The Wines of Antonino Caravaglio
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher things within us. -Novalis The history of artisanal winemaking in the Aeolian Islands off the…
Doug decants: The Wines of Didier Barral (FaugĂšres)
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. âHenry David Thoreau This Renaissance man, naturalist, and biodynamic…
Doug Decants: Andert Wine
Michael Andert was born into a large family and grew up on a farm with mixed agriculture, livestock and viticulture and learned to respect his family, his animals and the…
Doug Decants: Rabasco Wines, Abruzzo
The Not-so-Full Montes Iole Rabasco inherited her familyâs small vineyard and olive grove, neither of which have ever been treated with chemicals. And sheâs taken that blessing and run with it.…
Doug decants: Forlorn Hope
2015 Gemischter Satz by Forlorn Hope We love a crazily fearless blend and this wine is the mashiest of Austro-Germanic mash-ups. Matthew Rorick writes of his Forlorn Hope project: 'The…
Doug Decants: The Wines of CĂ©line & Laurent Tripoz
LochĂ©d and loaded All the Tripoz vineyards (11 hectares) are in or just outside of LochĂ© in the Maconnais, where the cellar is located. With vines on eastern exposures rooted…
Doug Decants: Limoux and Oregon (as you do), plus Natural Resistance and Farewell to Patricia!
New Wines -a-coming-around-the-corner Gilles Azam, Domaine Les Hautes-Terres â delicious Limoux Chardonnay and a CrĂ©mant made from Chenin, Mauzac and Chardonnay called Josephine. Organic wines from beautifully farmed organic vineyards.…