Keats & Syrah
Franz and Martina Weninger expanded their family Austrian winery in 1992 by hopping across the border into Southern Hungary, and now son Franz Reinhard Weninger and wife Petra run the…
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Killer Keller
Keller’s reputation just keeps growing. I first sold these wines while working at a German specialist importer, The Winery in Maida Vale, back in 2004 – now his wines regularly…
Kutch-meister
Jamie Kutch jacked in his job on Wall Street in 2005, setting out for California to make wine with no previous formal training. His Pinot Noirs quickly began garnering a…
Marvellous Muscadet
Muscadet Sèvre et Maine 2013, Domaine de la Pepière, Loire, France Muscadet is now a savvy choice on good wine lists, and Marc Ollivier makes a benchmark expression in the…
Maso Moves
Chardonnay 2011, Maso Furli, Trentino, Italy This 4 hectare estate in the municipality of Lavis just north of Trento, manages to craft a Chardonnay with a beguiling sumptuousness and complexity….
Wine Rapier Ramey
The Ramey Chardonnays have been regarded as benchmark Californian wines for many years now, David Ramey and his wife having founded the winery in 1996. Relatively long ageing on the…
Wine Razor Riesling
Jim Barry was a huge influence on the reputation of South Australia’s Clare Valley as a top Riesling region, founding the winery in 1959 with his wife Nancy. His son…
Wine Russian River Winner
Impressive Russian River Valley Chardonnay at the Marks & Spencer press tasting, and a rare treat to find a decent, elegant Sonoma County Chardonnay that doesn’t make teeth itch and…
Wine Savvy Savagnin
A few small parcels of vines to the west of the Swiss border and Lake Geneva are tended by Henri Le Roy, the local Savagnin grape producing utterly distinctive whites….
