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The last fruit off the hill: Mie Ikeno's 2021 Merlot was picked from 21 September to 7 October, after Typhoon No. 14 had tested the vines at harves...

Twenty-four days of picking, 19 September to 12 October 2022, for a Merlot whose Chardonnay neighbours were in the cellar within three. Ikeno's blo...

Riesling was said never to ripen in Yoichi; Atsuo Yamanaka picks it while the acid is still high and lets a second wild-yeast fermentation in bottl...

Domaine Mont Kern AK 2021Domaine Mont is the Yoichi winery of Atsuo Yamanaka, who trained for two years at Domaine Takahiko before founding the dom...

Domaine Mont Rouge AK 2023Domaine Mont is the Yoichi winery of Atsuo Yamanaka, who trained for two years at Domaine Takahiko before founding the do...

At La Cabotte in November 2018, Thibault Liger-Belair and the Mugneret-Gibourg sisters were handed an Aloxe-Corton from a grower none of them had h...

Julia Harding MW scored this 2018 16.5/20 in November 2019 and caught a hint of lavender she put down to the stems; every Faure red is fermented wh...

After a year of training under Agnès Paquet and another year under the Rhone master Jean-Louis Chave, Nicolas Faure joined DRC in May 2010. He ful...

After a year of training under Agnès Paquet and another year under the Rhone master Jean-Louis Chave, Nicolas Faure joined DRC in May 2010. He ful...

Takahiko Soga asks that this bottle stay closed until April 2027, and calls 2024 the vintage that needs age more than any he has made. Nana-Tsu-Mor...

Noble rot is getting scarce in Yoichi, and since 2022 Takahiko Soga has released this wine only as a multi-vintage: 2021 is the last single-year bo...

Rain at flowering cut the 2018 crop to nearly half, and Takahiko Soga says the loose, shot-berry bunches that survived gave Nana-Tsu-Mori the straw...

Takahiko Soga's own 2015 release note promised 'umami and length not seen before' and asked buyers to wait two years; the bottle is now a decade ol...

The Aihara vineyard gave Takahiko Soga its smallest crop on record in 2018, and this Passetoutgrain, 70 percent Pinot Noir, ran to just 1,000 bottl...

Soga calls the 2024 fruit from his contract vineyard in Nobori the best it has given him in years, then asks you not to open the bottle before Janu...

Soga calls it a revival: the crown-capped Kerner he first released in 2010, remade in 2022 with the grower's own son and never offered for general ...

Every grape from the domaine's own 6.7-hectare Nana-Tsu-Mori vineyard was declassified in 2023, so this Passetoutgrain is the whole estate crop rel...

Vincent Dauvissat took on these Vaillons vines in 1979 and admits he did not think the wine would age; he now says he was wrong. The holding is sma...

Domaine Yui usually bottles its forty-year-old Portland vines alone; for this release the Sugiyamas blended in barrel-aged Pinot Noir from their A ...

In 2025 the Sugiyamas picked their forty-year-old Portland vines a fortnight early, in a Hokkaido summer they called unprecedented; the finished pé...

Since the 2018 vintage Clos la Néore has been bottled only in magnum; the reasoning relayed by its Japanese trade is that this wine shows its worth...

This is the vintage of the year Edmond Vatan died, aged 92; Antonio Galloni of Vinous scores the magnum 96 and calls it another rich, dense wine. A...

Élise Dechannes is a boutique grower-producer based in Les Riceys, in the southern Côte des Bar of Champagne. Farming her old family vines organica...

One 228-litre barrel and 262 bottles a year: Liberté is the smallest sparkling cuvée in the Élise Dechannes cellar, and its name means exactly what...