Buscemi is the single winery in Sicily that honors the ancient ties of the Mediterranean winemaking diaspora. These two red grapes thrive amid Etna’s extreme climactic conditions—for wines of impeccable balance and freshness that are like few other wines from Sicily.
Winemakers Xavier and Caroline Perromat have worked tirelessly for more than a decade to restore their family’s historic property here in the heart of Graves, just to the north of the famous sweet wine region of Barsac.
We like to call Domaine Sauvète wines “stress-free” because what’s in the bottle comes not only with an iron-clad organic certification but also the know-how of four generations of artisan winemakers in Touraine.
Romain and Damien Bouchard founded their winemaking estate only in 2016, yet they are the fourth generation of their clan to toil the classic and chalky, Kimmeridgian soils of Chablis. For generations, the family provided other winemakers with peerless Chardonnay fruit, pulled from impressive holdings in grand cru and premier cru vineyards, planted carefully by family hands.
The story of André Robert Champagne goes back five generations, rooted in the chalk-rich, grand cru soils of Le Mesnil sur Oger. The Robert family are a true grower-producer team dedicated to the elegant and expressive character of pure Mesnil Champagne.
The Sorrel family first set root in Hermitage in 1893, when estate founder Félix Alexandre Sorrel purchased land in ‘Les Bessards.’ Today the family’s third generation–indeed, three Sorrel brothers (Jacques, Jean-Michel and Bruno)–today tend the family’s few acres of land, crafting but a handful of bottles each vintage.
There is something particularly special about a winemaker who lives, literally, among his vines. In the heart of ‘Côte Rozier,’ at the very top of the hill overlooking the northern Rhône town of Ampuis, you’ll find the humble yet rising-star estate of Christophe Billon.
The wines of Radda in Chianti are truly “mountain” Sangiovese wines, crisp and lively, redolent of summer fruit and Alpine-fresh breezes. Diego Finocchi, a native son, started his family winery project in 2006 with a goal of capturing all of Radda’s stony energy and verve in their organically raised wines.
Diego Conterno and his son, Stefano, craft elegant wines in Monforte d’Alba, Baroli that are supple and utterly profound in their perfumes and flavors. They tend five acres in the heart of ‘Ginestra’ (plus another 15 acres in Monforte, including a rare plot of Nascetta vines) organically.