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Harvest 2026 : Tour of our estates

Post published:27 October 2026

As we did last year, we are gathering all the harvest reports into one letter. This way you can go and read the ones you are mostly interested in by clicking on the link to download the full article. Of course this is also possible to read them all :-) 2026 was definitely not a usual vintage, we can note some global aspects such as a very humid winter and spring and a very hot and very dry growing season. It seems the Southern East region with Rhône & Provence and the Italian Valpolicella & Tuscany seemed to be safe from drought ! 2026 gave here and there very small harvests but very promising wines to come ...

Louise Brison: a family story told through a library of vintages

Post published:27 October 2026

In the cellars of Louise Brison, you can choose a Champagne back to the 1997 harvest. Alongside it are other carefully preserved vintages, each with its own character and story. The family does more than produce vintage Champagne: for decades, they have patiently built a library of harvests, a selection of which is now available to order. For lovers of mature Champagne, this offers a rare opportunity to explore several vintages from a single estate, including wines in magnum. The collection reveals how the seasons have varied and the wines have evolved. Behind it are the decisions that shaped the estate: buying land, beginning to make their own Champagne, and setting bottles aside for years of ageing. At Louise Brison, the story of the vintages is inseparable from the story of the family.

Bronzato: a return to Valpolicella’s authentic voice

Post published:1 October 2026

Massimo Bronzato inherited vineyards in Valpolicella, but no established cellar style — giving him the rare freedom to begin with a blank canvas.

Domaine Rolet: inside a remarkable library of old vintages in Arbois

Post published:28 September 2026

Some estates sell you a wine and ask you to imagine its future. Domaine Rolet can pour you its past.

The Forgotten Shade of Grenache

Post published:26 August 2026

At Domaine des Homs in Minervois, Jean-Marc de Crozals has given Grenache Gris a rare solo role, creating a white wine in tiny quantities that feels both recognisable and genuinely unexpected. More than a curiosity, it opens a broader conversation about climate change and the future of Mediterranean viticulture.

Beyond great wine: What makes an estate a long-term partner (6/6 serie)

Post published:29 July 2026

Some wine estates begin to reveal themselves after the very first great bottle. Others can only be understood when viewed as a whole. Selvapiana belongs firmly to the latter. One bottle is not enough to grasp the philosophy of the estate. It only becomes fully apparent when its entire portfolio is seen as a coherent whole.

Two Voices of the Loire: Marie Thibault and Frantz Saumon

Post published:20 July 2026

There is the Loire of tourist brochures: châteaux, cycling routes, river light, the flawless French pastoral. And then there is the Loire you enter through a door in the rock. Around Tours, soft limestone has for centuries been carved into houses, cellars and long underground tunnels, where wine matures in coolness and silence. It is here, in this less ceremonial and far more interesting Loire, that Marie Thibault and Frantz Saumon work — two winemakers, two spouses, two independent voices. Their wines do not try to be “correct”. They do not polish local varieties until they shine with international gloss, nor do they turn natural wine into a circus act. They simply allow Chenin, Grolleau, Gamay and stone to speak in their own language — alive, precise, free, but never unruly.

Tasting a Geological Map: The New Face of Muscadet at Domaine Batard Langelier

Post published:16 July 2026

Everyone knows Muscadet. Or at least, everyone thinks they do. Pale, sharp, inexpensive and dispatched alongside a dozen oysters before anyone has had time to ask where the wine came from. For decades, that was both Muscadet’s great commercial success and its greatest problem: the region became famous for a style before anyone bothered to look closely at the place.

Pomino: Tuscany, but not as expected (5/6 Series)

Post published:24 June 2026

Tuscany has trained wine enthusiasts to think in red - Sangiovese, Chianti, Brunello, Super Tuscans — great stories of the region are told through tannin, time and the evolution of red fruit in the glass. Pomino breaks that habit and offers another reading of Tuscany: cooler, fresher, more lifted in both red and white wine expressions. For Selvapiana, this is not a side note, but an extension of the same instinct that defines its Rufina wines.

Selvapiana: single vineyards and the architecture of identity (4/6 serie)

Post published:13 May 2026

For decades, Chianti was built around blending — a logic of composition where balance mattered more than distinction. Differences between sites were softened into a broader regional identity. Single-vineyard wines changed that perspective entirely. They shifted attention away from formula and toward origin. At Selvapiana, this transition did not happen as a trend. It emerged from the territory itself.