Natural & Friends

The Wine Notes: Natural The 'Topette' Chenin Blanc has seen some extended skin and air contact resulting in a deeply coloured vin with an invitin...

The Wine 100% Cabernet Franc from Robert Surmann’s vineyard in Totness, which has 30 y/o vines grown on black sandy soil overlying petrified schist...

The Wine 100% Cabernet Franc from Robert Surmann’s vineyard in Totness, which has 30 y/o vines grown on black sandy soil overlying petrified schist...

The Wine 100% Sauvignon Blanc from Robert Surmann’s vineyard in Totness with vines grown on black sand soil overlying petrified schist. The grapes ...

The Wine Notes: Natural The 'Topette' Chenin Blanc has seen some extended skin and air contact resulting in a deeply coloured vin with an inviting ...

The Wine Notes: Natural The local grapes are harvested by hand, de-stemmed but not crushed and fermented in big cement vats. They do not use barri...

The Wine This 100% Grenache from from equal portions of vines planted on basalt and clay-limestone terroirs. The high-altitude basalt terroir bring...

The Wine The winemaking sisters of Monastero Suore Cistercensi have created this intriguing blend of Trebbiano, Verdicchio, and Malvasia grapes, ...

The Wine 100% Pinot Noir. The Cemetery Block, located at the base of the Piccadilly Valley, is run by sixth generation farmers, Jenny and James Gri...

The Wine ORANGE : A blend of the same grapes as the Coenobium, but in this instance, the juice is left to ferment on the lees for a period of two...

The Wine This comes from vines planted right outside the border of the Brouilly It's refreshingly juicy and light with attractive bitter cherry and...

The Wine Sourced from the Saint Joseph and Grand Cras subzones of the appellation, about 500 meters from his Morgon vines. The wine is named afte...

The Wine Notes: Minsulphur Yields: 25 hl/ha 3,000 bottles annually : The Syrah grapes come from vines with an average age of 50 years. This beaut...

The Wine Alex Foillard’s Brouilly comes from the aptly named 'La Folie' (Madness), a steep vineyard just above Reverdon.  "...Working in Brouilly a...

The Wine Alex Foillard’s Brouilly comes from the aptly named 'La Folie' (Madness), a steep vineyard just above Reverdon.  "...Working in Brouilly a...

The Wine From the north-facing lieu-dit Chavannes, with soils of granite and schist and a thin layer of sandy soils over the top. This area provide...

The Wine As much as I love Burgundy, there are times that the occasion calls for a beautiful Beaujolais. And a sticky night in June is just such an...

The Wine This cuvee comes from their oldest vines, which have an average age of around seventy years. These grow on soils with granite and decompos...

The Wine Guy’s principal wine, the Morgon “Vieilles Vignes” is sourced from the Saint Joseph and Grand Cras subzones of the appellation, which give...

The Wine Clos des Cessieux is a study of Hervé’s use of finesse in what would traditionally have made a powerful and brooding wine. A new cuvée fro...

The Wine Yields: 25 hl/ha 1,500 bottles annually The Saint Epine vineyard is located right behind Hervé and Beatrice Souhaut’s house in the village...

The Wine This is from 40 old vines in a tiny (0.22ha) parcel from a lieu-dit in Gevrey . It has all of Gevrey's drama - perfume and poise. As the ...

The Wine  This is spicier than it usually is with plenty of earth and humus nuances adding breadth to the ripe aromas of poached plum and wild blac...

The Wine This too is firmly reduced. There is almost painful intensity to the beautifully delineated and mineral-driven broad-shouldered flavors th...