Riesling PairFew grapes reflect terroir as transparently as Riesling. It has such a range of expressions, shifting dramatically in sweetness, structure, and texture depending on where and how they're made. What better choice for our pairing series highlighting New World and Old World expressions of the same varietal? These two wines offer a striking contrast: a powerful, dry, single vineyard Riesling from the Finger Lakes alongside a classic Mosel Kabinett with

Garage production by Paolo Clemente

2% Listán Blanco

east-facing vines on a soft slope of limestone bedrock with white calcareous rocky clay topsoil at 300m

50+ year old vines

After a pre-fermentation cold maceration of 4 to 5 days

and Petit Courbu

once the wine is bottled and ready for market

Aged for 12-16 months in barrels (20% new)

he has steadily honed a philosophy that the vineyard is where the wine is created—and the cellar merely helps it along

Each release

"Stepping into this Soave is like entering a spa

A very well-respected wine writer once mistakenly lumped Lessona into the mix of all of northern Piedmont Nebbiolo wines as “a rather less pure form than a great Barolo