Bunnahabhain 12-year-old Islay Single Malt Scotch

the brothers in winemaking together

Lafouge is one such producer

It is rooted Champagne

the 2019 vintage is at once hedonistic and structurally powerful

and thrilling amounts of minerality all emerge from this inky colored

Marseillaise materfamilias who has carried on the great Tempier family ritual of serving guests fresh

and a faint note of smoked clay

one arm eerily stubby and stout

As Claudie told my tasting group

has established Far Niente as one of the world’s great wine estates

polished and straightforward with driving tannin

There are vintages when Troplong Mondot feels simply grand — and then there are vintages when it feels inevitable