Guiberteau Saumur Blanc Le Bourg 2023 event-sold-out and Erin Mitchell and Randy

and Erin Mitchell and Randy Czech's hands-off approach in the cellar lets the site speak for itself

and at twenty-plus years this Ducru is drinking generously - exotic fruit

From the producer: The first extra-aged Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey to join Elijah Craig’s award-winning family of Bourbons

the Campania winemaker who happens to also be one of Italy's most influential professors of oenology at the University of Naples Federico II

Guiberteau Saumur Blanc Le Bourg 2023 event-sold-out and Erin Mitchell and RandyRomain Guiberteau, the Clos Rougeard trained star of Saumur, draws Le Bourg from a single 1. 07 hectare parcel just below Clos des Carmes on the hill of Brez. The vines were planted in the early 1940s on sandy clay over soft limestone; the wine is organic, ambient yeast fermented and aged about a year in used barrels, with malolactic blocked. It's the old vine sibling to the Carmes, a touch more open and aromatic but every bit as serious. The 2023 is