Some estates sell you a wine and ask you to imagine its future. Domaine Rolet can pour you its past.
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.
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.
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.
After a few years, with many visits to Italy, we have been carefully searching for a new Italian estate to represent for export, and today we believe we have found…
Dear partners,This year, we have decided to simplify the sharing of our winegrowers' harvest reports.Until now, you received these reports individually, estate by estate. From now on, for greater clarity…
June 23rdWe were greeted at the end of June by a smiling, serene winegrower, as the season unfolded without stress. The vines are growing at a reasonable pace, so there's…
Summer has firmly settled in Provence.
This week begins with a focus on the Champagne region, where spring is in full bloom in the heart of the vineyard nestled in the Côte des Bar,a terroir more similar to Chablis than Épernay. Guided by Delphine Brulez, we explored her sunlit vines to observe the current viticultural work and closely monitor the evolution of the vegetation. We had the privilege of admiring an exceptional winegrowing landscape, shaped by a remarkable diversity of soils. In 2024, the estate commissioned an in-depth study of its terroirs to better understand the specificities of each plot.
A vintage at odds with the last two decades At Domaine Bader, in Epfig (Alsace), the 2024 harvest is in and the wines are quietly finishing their fermentation. Here we talk…