2018 Garage Wine Co. - Carignan Lot #97 Truquilemu Vineyard

2021 Ridge - Zinfandel Dry Creek Valley Lytton Springs

The 2021 Lytton Springs is fabulous. Bright and vibrant to its core, the 2021 impresses with its poise. Readers will find a Lytton Springs that is very much in reserve, as opposed to the rest of the 2021s in this report, all of which are more approachable...

2018 Izar-Leku Mahastiak (Artadi) - Izar-Leku

The sparkling 2018 Izar-Leku is from the Getariako Txakolina appellation and was produced with 90% Hondarrabi Zuri and 10% Hondarrabi Beltza grapes. It was kept with the lees for one year (one-third in barrel) and with a second fermentation in bottle wher...

2022 Karl Erbes - Urziger Wurzgarten Spatlese

2023 Guimaro - Ribeira Sacra

The young red 2023 Mencía also contains the allowed 15% of other local varieties—Brancellao, Merenzao, Garnacha, Mouratón, Negreda, Sousón… It has notes of wild berries, herbs and flowers and a characteristic touch of honey and beeswax that I sometimes fi...