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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…

2014 Epoch Estate, White, Paso Robles. The gorgeous and stylish White from Epoch Estate comes from estate vineyards, Catapult and Paderewski, in the western/cooler Willow Creek District, and is formed…

2014 Once & Future, Petite Sirah, Palisades Vineyard, Calistoga, Napa Valley. Joel Peterson, the founder of California’s iconic Zinfandel house Ravenswood, has started a new project that takes him back…

2015 Weingut Ingrid Groiss, Rose of Pinot Noir-Zweigelt, Sommerwein “Angel’s Kiss” Weinviertel Austria. The Groiss Rose is fast becoming one of my favorite pinks and joins an elite set of…

2015 Casa Nuestra, Dry Chenin Blanc, Saint Helena, Napa Valley. One of the last remaining secrets of Napa Valley, Casa Nuestra’s gloriously brisk and vibrant dry Chenin, a wine that…

2014 Ridge Vineyards, Lytton Springs, Proprietary Red, Dry Creek Valley. The stylish and sophisticated 2014 Lytton Springs has an almost subtle appeal in it’s youthful stage, but with classic Zinfandel…

2015 Weingut Ingrid Groiss, Gemischter Satz, Braitenpuechtorff, Weinviertel, Austria. Ingrid Groiss has really taken the wine world by storm in recent years and it is always a rare treat to…

2013 Guimaro, Mencia, Finca Meixeman, Ribeira Sacra, Spain. Galicia’s Pedro Rodriguez makes some of the most thrilling wines in Spain, his Guimaro Mencia reds are something special and they get…

2012 G.D. Vajra, Barolo “Ravera” Piedmonte, Italy. These 2012’s are turning out to be much better than anyone could have hoped in Barolo, in fact I think, especially as young…