Wine between $50 and $75

The 2019 Grenache Spear Vineyard is a very pretty vivid wine. Rose petal crushed raspberry mint and spice meld together in a wine of exquisite beauty and finesse. Creamy and resonant with tons of site expression the Spear Grenache... Read More

From 65-year-old vines and vinified in fuders until mid-April this year the 2019 Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Trocken is concentrated and flinty on the detailed complex highly aromatic yet refined and slatey nose. Crystalline and... Read More

The floral perfumed and expressive 2019 Cardia Pombeiras was produced with Mencía from 40-year-old vines on slate soils 0.16 hectares. It fermented with some 30% full clusters and indigenous yeasts and matured in used French... Read More

The 2019 Cazoga Cepas Centenarias comes from a steep slope planted in 1910 on shallow granite soils. The vines deliver very low yields (less than 2000 kilos per hectare) and it fermented with 25% full clusters and indigenous yeasts... Read More

Entirely Pinot Noir the 2019 Champagne Grand Cru Verzy Le Cepage is fleshy with kirsch yellow flowers and orange peel and is structured and dry with savory salinity grapefruit pith and crushed rock. This is a wine that can hold... Read More

Just bottled the 2015 Barolo Riserva Cascina Dardi is a real powerhouse. This full-bodied potent Barolo packs a huge punch. It won't be ready to drink anytime soon that much is obvious. Time in the glass brings out aromatic... Read More

What Is Laboro Disubbidiente?
Laboro Disubbidiente is a Barolo in all but name. Produced from vines with an average age of 60 years from the Bussia vineyard of Dardi. Laboro is a play on the word Barolo and a nod to the labor... Read More

The Altesino 2017 Brunello di Montalcino is ripe and round with lots of pretty textural richness and juicy fruit flavors. These qualities tie in nicely with the character of the vintage that saw long and hot summer days. Dark... Read More

10 Sep 2021 – A fragrant and super-elegant gruner veltliner which has plenty of concentration but steps lightly. Lots of white peach rosemary and shiso-leaf freshness as well as wet-stone minerality. Very long finely etched... Read More

Fuller than its Liebenberg counterpart and faintly warm (though analytically harboring the same moderate (13.5%) alcohol) Alzinger’s 2012 Riesling Smaragd Hollerin reflects the deeper loess-overlain soils of this site. Apple... Read More

The Alzinger 2012 Riesling Smaragd Hohereck leads with ester-rich high-toned pit fruit distillates almond extract heliotrope wisteria and piquant peach kernel. Full and glossy its luscious white peach and apple are nonetheless... Read More

A cornucopia of fruit aromas across the entire range of citrus and stone fruit with a touch of thyme. Rich and concentrated but this is married to stunningly fresh acidity that lights it up. Lovely floral notes. Moves inexorably... Read More

Very intense and focused this dry riesling has noble austerity. The radical thyme grapefruit and bergamot character are married to intensely mineral acidity on the sleek and highly structured palate. The long extremely focused... Read More

Luscious apple and white peach are allied to pumpkin and winter squash in an Alzinger 2012 Riesling Smaragd Loibenberg which is fuller more satiny in texture and more obviously extract-rich (indeed almost sweetly so) than the... Read More

Arnot-Roberts was founded in Healdsburg in 2001 by childhood friends Duncan Arnot Meyers and Nathan Lee Roberts. Duncan had been involved in making wine at various wineries in the region and Nathan had worked with his father as... Read More

Arnot-Roberts was founded in Healdsburg in 2001 by childhood friends Duncan Arnot Meyers and Nathan Lee Roberts. Duncan had been involved in making wine at various wineries in the region and Nathan had worked with his father as... Read More

Arnot-Roberts was founded in Healdsburg in 2001 by childhood friends Duncan Arnot Meyers and Nathan Lee Roberts. Duncan had been involved in making wine at various wineries in the region and Nathan had worked with his father as... Read More