Les Suchots is the largest Premier Cru climat in Vosne Romanee, sandwiched between Echezeaux and Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru. Over 100 domaines craft wines from this site, making it rather like Vosne Romanee’s own version of Clos de Vougeot. Diverse handling means that the best of Suchots is to be found by those who know producer […]

Brunello as a region has long stood for quality excellence and the purest expression of Sangiovese (specifically the Brunello clone). There is however more than one style of Brunello as leading producers from this famed Italian region began to highlight single vineyard expression. For consumers, the intrigue factor behind better understanding single vineyard expressions from […]

At 35 years old, if you are a Burgundian working for an oil company in America, what would you do? For Chantal Tortochot-Michel, the answer was simple. At 35, she decided to bid farewell to the stressful environment in large American corporations as a financier within an oil company; and went on to study at […]

One of the oldest Medoc estates, Domaine de Léoville belonged to some of the wealthiest and most influential noble French families before it was acquired by the Las Cases family. The estate was split up between 1826 and 1840 as a result of the French Revolution. And many usually ask, price, score and track record […]

Colorado-raised Joseph Phelps made his first investments in Napa in 1972, and shortly 2 years afterwards, he conceived this idea of making a unique blend which is to vary every year to preserve Napa’s best expression. In 1974 Phelps and his winemaker Walter Schugg produced their first vintage of Insignia, which at the time was […]