David Reynaud Crozes Hermitage Cuvee BeaumontCrozes Hermitage is the place. Shunned by wine cognoscenti as not Hermitage, Crozes is the long hillside slope behind the hill of Hermitage, France, in the Northern Rhone. Think of it as Beverly Hills 9 0 2 1 1. Yet this slice of real estate is beautiful for us those of us who drink for pleasure. It can, in the hands of the best producers, in the best vintages, offer one of the worlds most amazing Syrahs (Shiraz if youre of Aussie persuasion), that

is my appeal to you for the Gruner Veltliner – if you want to taste the lifeblood of humanity and the spirit of Mother Nature bound together as one

and powerful on the palate

Papà and Aldo have since passed

opening with green plum

As things go in the wine industry

2021 Canvasback Cabernet $58

and I saw a back vintage of one of Pascal Janvier’s wines

silken tannins giving the wine a graceful

But you could also give it time — five

crushed rock

they’ve got a lot of land

Imagine you have 100 barrels of wine