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2018 Domaine Saint-Damien, Gigondas “La Louisiane” Vieilles Vignes, Rhone Valley, France.The Domaine Saint-Damien, founded back 1821 is a small family winery in the southern Rhone based in the famed Gigondas…

2019 Casa Nuestra, Dry Riesling, St. Helena, Napa Valley.The crisp and vibrant Dry Riesling by Casa Nuestra, a winery I featured yesterday I know, based in Napa Valley’s St. Helena…

2014 Casa Nuestra, Tinto St. Helena, Napa Valley.One of my favorite Napa haunts and one of the Valley’s best kept secrets, Casa Nuestra Winery, which means “our house” in Spanish…

2019 Dirty & Rowdy, Barbera, Mendocino County.The dark purple/garnet and juicy Mendocino County Barbera from Hardy Wallace and Dirty & Rowdy begs for a steaming mass of pasta and spicy…

2013 Littorai, Pinot Noir, Mays Canyon, Sonoma Coast.Ted Lemon, who is humbly and with great precision, is continuing to make some of California’s most beautiful Pinot Noir wines and his…

2018 Domaine Merlin Francois, Cote-Rotie, Northern Rhone, France.The Domaine Merlin Francois of Lauent and Francois Merlin is totally new to me and this beautifully made Cote-Rotie was an excellent discovery…

2018 Stolpman “La Cuadrilla” Red Blend, Ballard Canyon, Santa Ynez Valley.The La Cuadrilla or the the crew’s wine, is a pure California gem from Stolpman with the grapes all coming…

2018 A Championship Bottle, Broken Radios, Pinot Noir/Pinot Gris, Whistling Ridge Vineyard, Ribbon Ridge AVA, Willamette Valley, Oregon.If you are interesting in exciting and rare Oregon obscurities, you’ll want to…

2018 Moulin de la Gardette, Gigondas “La Cuvee Tradition” Rhone Valley, France.In recent years I have been drawn to the wines of Gigondas and Vacqueyras for my Grenache geek fix…

1995 Ridge Vineyards, Carignan, Oat Valley Vineyard, Cooley Family Ranch, Sonoma County.I am still obsessed with these early to mid 1990s Ridge wines, especially the Zinfandel field blends and Carignan…