I loved the 2019 Vacqueyras Vieilles Vignes, which is a step up over the classic cuvée. Blackberries, black cherries, peppery herbs, and graphite notes all emerge on the nose, and it hits the palate with medium to full-bodied richness, silky tannins, and ...
From the Monção e Melgaço sub-region of northern Portugal, the natural home of the alvarinho grape, and made by one of its finest producers, who uses a little skin contact (hence the name) to give structure to this invigorating linear dinner-table white.
The 2022 PSI is clean, expressive and open, much more approachable than the more reductive 2021 that I tasted next to it. It's primary, fruit-driven and precise. "The fruit selection was better in 2022," explained Sisseck. It has contained ripeness and a ...