For Hugo, who received one hectare of vines in 2023, he’s finally brought his family’s hard work in the vineyards to life (touchingly so) and realized a passion shaped in the cellars of Liger-Belair and Roulot. We get into the history and this brand-new work.

It’s easy to get cynical when Burgundy’s absolute biggest name takes a stake in Oregon. But it got our attention that the wines of Académie—spearheaded by DRC’s Bertrand de Villaine—have been made stateside for a full decade but never actually sold here.

Dry wine from Tokaj might sound progressive stateside; but—like our favorite natural names in places like Anjou or Banyuls—there have long been talented producers who see their region with powerful, dry renditions of its indigenous (and electric) white grapes.

Our Spanish arrivals capture how dynamic and diverse the current state is here. Below, new wines from Manuel Cantalapiedra (including his personal project), inspired Catalan wines from Còsmic Vinyaters, and world-class Albillo being made by Dominio del Aguila.

This month we welcomed the '25 vintage from two favorite new Piedmont names—both with Pelaverga in tow. San Barnaba and a first-ever bottling from Maffrei join annual releases of the enduring classics, Castello di Verduno and G.B. Burlotto. It's our autumn ideal.

There are only four growers in Bugey's cru Manicle, but Clément Bärtschi is bringing this sliver of land to the world stage. He’s taken his experience—first as an intern at DRC, and now as head winemaker at Michel Chapoutier—and brought a fiercely detailed approach to his home village.

renache shows terroir like no other. It's a resounding sentiment we've heard from many of the wine world's great talents: the grape's naturally intense fruit is extremely reactive to its environment—like molding clay, it can swing from sun-drenched lushness to nervy, detailed wine.

The sole bottling from one of the highest elevation vineyards in the Willamette Valley is a cooling, ethereal wine that speaks to both the excitement around Oregon Chardonnay, and to a refreshingly restrained style uncommon among the region's vanguard.

Nate Ready’s farming goes beyond biodynamic, and the winemaking beyond “natural”; his work belongs in a more creative, personal context than these definitions allow. We were reminded of this when we sat with Nate this past spring and talked through his terroirs, grape varieties—all 114 of them—and the very particular cellar work.

Since the early aughts, YoYo has reframed joyful, sun-soaked Banyuls through iridescent co-ferments—an irresistibly fresh, aromatic lens for old-vine Grenache and Carignan. The top wines (from almost centenarian vines) take that joy and inject it with the area's famous black schist.

The distinct villages throughout the Jura—some defined by one or two sole producers—are shaped as much by soil as they are by the wine culture and laws specific to each place.

Some of our favorite négociants—small upstarts who began by sourcing fruit—can now proudly point to vineyards of their own. Our newest arrivals occupy this short list: Chanterêves, Bastian Wolber, and Pierre-Olivier Garcia. And, they're joined by a seldom-seen new name in Vosne: Boigey Frères.

For lovers of new-guard Garnacha, the work of Bárbara Requejo Frutos needs no introduction; but—as her 5th vintage shows perhaps more than ever—the work continues to evolve, and the depth of terroir translation is now impressively deep.

On the bleeding edge of natural Beaujolais, Clos Bateau's low intervention, infusion approach builds on the savvy ways a whole generation of growers is bringing freshness to increasingly warm vintages.

Despite a declassification, Jakob's signature remains: charming wine, with a kiss of oak and the almost-weightless timbre we've seen from other talented producers in this stunted vintage.

With just a few hours of skin contact in the press, this is his estate-grown, organic Nero d'Avola from Vittoria, where red clay and limestone soils famously bring lip-smacking freshness to the wine.

Like many of the greats whose talented hands have touched or started a number of exciting projects—Raj Parr has now settled into just one: fully dedicated, incredibly personal work rooted in a remote farm on the far edge of the SLO Coast.

Carroll Kemp's path through winemaking—and tasting the current release of his Alma Fria—echoes the West Sonoma Coast at large: the wines almost impossibly continue to ratchet up in polish and intensity, stirring affirmations that this terroir is one of the most treasured in wine.

Perhaps no producer is capturing the moment—and the excitement—in Jurançon like Domaine de l’Apollin, whose first stateside release has just landed. The farming, the natural work in the cellar, and the finished wines all feel like a signal of what’s ahead here.

Milan Nestarec's visit this spring confirmed what we’ve followed along for several vintages: the work has grown tremendously, shedding any desire to achieve “styles” and instead, intensely focused on—a truly artistic—essence of terroir. And the wines? Better than ever.

Thumb through some of the city’s biggest and best lists (EMP, or the freshly revamped Babbo, for example) and you’ll see a new addition popping up in the Tuscan section: Montalcino’s il Cocco.

The wines were so incredible, so special – Dirk Niepoort declared them “the greatest white wines in the history of Portugal” and bought much of the production himself. These are those wines.

We’re bringing wine auctions to a place where more people can participate. Everyone is invited to explore the world’s best wines.

When Hugo and Talloulah Mathurin purchased the property at their (quickly famous) Domaine de Cassiopée, they found themselves in one of the rare parts of Burgundy with still-untapped potential: Maranges.

Whole cluster, centenarian Garnacha that might evoke comparisons to Comando G and Rayas – but sits firmly in a category of its own.

A charming visit from Sardinia’s Simone Sedilesu was a reminder of what got us excited about his hometown of Mamoiada: aromas of Grenache on granite, surrounded by forests, at a cooling elevation. Mountain wine, from an unexpected place.

These are absolutely vivid, pure expressions of Dogliani that upend expectations for the appellation and its grape – all from a winemaker just 9 years in and barely 30 years old.

A new entry in the Langhe, from the backyard vineyard of a renowned photographer whose work has naturally embedded him in Piedmont's community of talented winemakers.

With vines in some of our favorite Champagne terroirs, these brothers work in a patient, unadulterated fashion and deliver a high-wire style—balancing chalky fruit with an embrace of oxygen through long aging.

We just love this drop from Drake Whitcraft, whose 2+ decades of winemaking is a revival of an old-school approach to Santa Barbara fruit. '23s are here, plus his Stolpman Chenin - a new entry for the east coast.

Just two months in and this year has already seen a slate of landings that surprise and delight: including new cuvées from old favorites and a pack of new-to-the-US producers who bring extra dimension to places we love.

While much of Oregon wine is dominated by Chardonnay and Pinot Noir rooted in the Willamette Valley's volcanic 'jory' soil, Jeff's work sits firmly outside of the monolith: a mission based on own-rooted, dry farmed old vines, from old clones and seldom seen varieties.

How did Gredos’ most famous name end up with a passion project in Galicia? In short: by salvaging years of work with friends.

100% certified organic Gamay, from the granite and clay soils of Beaujeu (yes, the capital of Beaujolais!). This is Yann Bertrand's 2025 Beaujolais Primeur (aka Nouveau).

The personal project of Frank Cornelissen’s cellar master (and Etna native) Giuseppe Lazzaro – this is a set of unique and unabashedly delicious wines, stateside for the first time.

These are his most personal wines, a powerful style that deftly flexes between luxurious and soil-driven. Much of the fruit comes from the family holdings, but he sources additional sites from friends (like trading his Meursault for Antoine Lienhardt's Les Plantes aux Bois...)

The story is a homecoming for a NY wine professional who caught a (2020) plane back to his home country of Croatia and settled into the coastal Mediterranean town of Primošten. Before long, he began a new chapter: a natural winery focused on a single grape, found throughout the white-limestone coast of his homeland.

Practically extending from Mouton Rothschild (just 100 yards), he's producing richly textured, natural Bordeaux: thought-provoking wines that feel true to the region, while putting terroir and philosophy over rigid rules from the past.

There is no more confident hand in Salnés. And a full release is back in the store with their top Albariños, a couple experimental cuvées we haven’t seen in several years, and a brand-new Rosado we’ve been patiently awaiting for two years...

Aside from being interesting and delicious, this bottle represents an ethos we can't get enough of: a new generation of winemakers, boldly redefining German wine.