After 2021's weather-ravaged harvest, the arrival of triumphant 2022s from Gilles and Christine Berlioz - absolute icons of Savoie - is especially noteworthy.

How fitting that we end the year celebrating an estate founded in 1924; for 100 years Recaredo has produced Spain's finest sparkling wine.

The $26 bottle every thirsty adult will <3

When I first tasted the wines, to be completely honest, I had never experienced wines like these from New Zealand: creatively styled, natural (yet clean), and with ideas in the cellar that didn’t exist in the market.

A recap of last week's cheerful Champagne tasting, insight from Chris' pilgrimage, and an in-stock list of some of the Côte des Bar's emerging-and-best stars!

Grenache on Granite is a mystical combination, one that Spain's Sierra de Gredos has embraced. Here are the producers and bottles we're loving.

Our newest arrival, Alessandra Divella, only confirms what we knew about the town of Gussago: this is a world class corner for Champagne method wines.

Up and coming talents Moritz Kissinger and Bastian Beny are putting the little known Rheinhessen village of Uelversheim on the world stage, highlighting its pure limestone intensity with his fine hand in the cellar.

Tement is a standard-bearer for Sauvignon Blanc – not just in Austria but from anywhere. Famous for its Grand Cru Zieregg vineyard, it sits on top of a limestone-ridden coral reef which is impossible not to taste in each pulsing rendition.

With several of the rarely-seen wines of Tegan Passalacqua landing, we can’t help but urge our people to have his wines on the table this coming week.

The first of the 2024 harvest gets cracked tomorrow 🎈 a day for fresh, inexpensive glou-glou, and joyful celebration.

Hokkaido continues to grow as a center for one of the most transformative stories in wine. At the heart of it: the referential wines of Takahiko Soga.

After a fascinating visit, Bastian Wolber's talents are fresh on Chris' mind and, perfectly, his wines also just landed.

Pierre-Henri Rougeot has put in hard work to elevate his family domaine; here, we get into his small personal project, where he's making some of the finest new wines coming out of Burgundy.

New releases from Paolo Bea and Collecapretta have us thinking: landlocked, defined by indigenous varietals and with a slate of referential natural producers – Umbria might just be the most unique place in Italian wine.

In an appellation infamously known for conventional farming, it's one of two certified Biodynamic estates. With a style that makes Béru a producer without reference...

It’s a pure Nebbiolo from one of Barolo’s most sought-after villages, produced by two of the area’s legends. And, it’s outstanding.

Via Roumier, DRC, By Farr...Louis Billard is one of the most refreshing new Burgundians we've comes across this year. Fine yet unadulterated and pure-fruited. Any serious burghounds will love these.

With lots of love recently for Nebbiolo of the highest caliber, especially from Piedmont's new guard; it'd be a miss not to mention that some of the best new landings recently have come from Barbaresco.

Reflecting on more of our favorite grower producers with new arrivals from Calsac, Bouchard, Ruppert-Leroy, Mignon, Agrapart, and Oudiette.

The founder of Scholium Project, and one of the most creative minds in wine, is launching his new LA-based project in New York.

Another torch has passed; and the result is a lineup of giving, joyful wines that natural wine lovers and burghounds alike should make sure to get in front of.

There's a new cuvée from Bethany Kimmel’s The Color Collector: an Oregon (and now, Washington) winemaker whose fresh but lacy Gamay has us looking forward to her tiny (read: coveted) releases every year.

In Portugal's Alentejo, Natus continues to push the traditional ways. Even among a slate of favorite names – we’re still struck by just how delicious they are.

Lena Singer-Fischer is the rare German producer who specializes in sparkling wine - making bottles that feel more shoulder-to-shoulder with our favorite grower Champagne than German Sekte.

When you factor in the farming, the multiple cellars he needs to support his layered, multi-vintage approach (for both still and sparkling), it becomes clear that Hoch is as individual as a winemaker can be.

From Vincent Ruiz (newly at the helm of Dominique Belluard's estate), we've got a grippy, tasty *fun* bottle...

The return of Drake Whitcraft’s wines to Fulton St is a charming highlight among a crop of interesting arrivals from Santa Barbara and the greater Central Coast.

Australia's Place of Changing Winds – our newest (and long anticipated) name on the shelf – has taken the technique of high density planting to an absolute extreme. For some of the finest Pinot Noirs coming out of, honestly, anywhere...

From Muscadet head-turner Jérôme Bretaudeau, a new cuvée that’s energetic, delicious, and – a touch less expensive than the rest of the lineup.

Daniel Vollenweider's successor Mortiz Hoffmann seems to not only have honored his work by finishing the '22 vintage (in incredible style and intention, more on that below); but, with the newly arrived 2023s, he’s solidified the future of this seminal Mosel estate.

We’ve been mentioning Maffrei where we can: the young La Morra-based duo with a firm role in Langhe’s newest chapter. The arrival of their ‘23s may only be their third vintage, but they’re already some of the most sought after bottles from the area (and, very limited in release).

From Galicia’s iconic Nanclares y Prieto, it’s a (very limited!) wine of many firsts.

It's a rare new entry in Vosne - from the vineyard manager for the Hospices de Beaune’s Grand Cru holdings in the Cote de Nuits. We're in!

On a crowded volcano, Ayunta's Filippo Mangione stands apart in Etna for his wildly old vines, impressive contrada holdings and, most uniquely: multiple expressions of Nerello Mascalese.

In Rheinhessen, Carsten Saalwächter is becoming a must-watch grower in Germany's newest guard.

Tanca Nica is, in a word: other-worldly. Those who’ve tasted know it’s more than just (rare!) dry wine from Pantelleria – it’s a thought-provoking, highly specific expression of volcanic terroir.

From a unique spot on the northern end of Tenerife, Ambora is making especially elegant expressions of Canary Island wine that manage to stand out in the region’s already incredibly specific terroir.

Benjamin Benoit may be young but he works very, very hard – combined with incredibly natural talent, the result is a lineup well-worthy of its roots in Burgundy and Pupillin’s small circles.