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2014 Alfaro Family Vineyards, Chardonnay, Trout Gulch Vineyard, Santa Cruz Mountains. Richard Alfaro’s Chardonnays are some of the very best wines for the money in California, and his latest set…

2013 G.D. Vajra, Barbera d’Alba, Piedmonte, Italy. While I’m a sucker for Giuseppe Vajra’s Nebbiolo wines and his amazing Riesling, I also adore the Barbera, and this 2013 is a…

2015 Quinta do Ameal, Loureiro, Vinho Verde, Portugal. What an amazing vintage for this region, these 2015 whites from Vinho Verde and Moncao are wildly expressive and vivid with exotic…

nv Bodegas La Cigarrera, Manzanilla Pasada Sherry, Manzanilla Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain. Ninth generation sherry master Ignacio Hidalgo at Bodegas La Cigarrera, the oldest continuous sherry producer to live under…

2012 Giovanni Rosso, Barolo, Del Comune di Serralunga d’Alba, Piedmonte, Italy. The new 2012 Barolo Serralunga by Davide Rosso is pure and exquisitely detailed with energy and poise, and it…

2015 Ser Winery, Rose of Nebbiolo, Olof Vineyard, Lake County. Ser Winery is a artisan Santa Cruz based winery that sources single vineyard fruit to craft unique terroir expensive wines,…

2014 Jean-Francois Ganevat, Cotes du Jura Chardonnay “Le Montceau” Jura, France. Jean-Francois Ganevat can’t make enough wine to satisfy the world’s overwhelming thirst for his lovely and intriguing Jura wines,…

2015 Weingut Donnhoff, Riesling Kabinett, Oberhauser Leistenberg, Nahe Germany. The delicate and slate influenced Oberhauser Leistenberg Kabinett should not be overlooked in Donnhoff’s amazing 2015 Rieslings, it is not as…

2015 Bibich, Debit, Dalmatian White, Croatia. One of the summer’s most fun and refreshing wines comes from Croatian superstar winemaker Alen Bibic of the Bibich winery in Skradin, not far…

2015 Saint Cosme, Cotes-du-Rhone Rouge, Rhone Valley, France. Louis Barruol’s Chateau de Saint Cosme is one of the great wineries in the southern rhone and produce some of the most…