Two bottles sit on the tasting table. Same producer, same 2015 vintage, same wine in every respect except one. The…
Winemaking
Whole-cluster fermentation is Pinot Noir’s most consequential cellar decision: stems in or stems out, no third option. What the technique really delivers.
In the autumn of 2001, Michel Chapoutier walked into a concrete workshop on the eastern edge of Burgundy and asked…
At Romanée-Conti, the most-priced vineyard on earth, the cellar team buries cow horns packed with manure across the monopole each…
Somewhere around 2011, a generation of American Chardonnay drinkers stopped ordering Chardonnay. The phenomenon had a name, ABC (Anything But…
