Villalobos Vinedo Silvestre 'Carignan' Reserve 2019

Villalobos Vinedo Silvestre 'Carignan' Reserve 2019When we say a wine is wild we usually mean it's got a rustic feel. But this wine comes from Carignan allowed to grow as actual wild vines like, 18 feet up in the trees, wild. This is what grape vines do without humans wrangling them into neat rows, and it is so difficult and time consuming to pick grapes from vines that haven't been cultivated that I've never heard of anyone doing this before. I've heard of people with the resources and devotion to

culture and dialect from Emilia

and smoky umami

Inside the bottles are incredibly vibrant and transparent wines that evoke the nearby Pacific Ocean

A new offering from Laura

It's a gateway to discovering the enormous untapped winemaking potential of Croatia

15% Poulsard

The couple lived together in the small hilltop village of Laroin until 1987

It is extra-floral but Crocizia's example is beautifully complex with dusty lavender

the government still forces him to add sulfur to the wines

even this inexpensive everyday red

They have converted the vines to Biodynamic agriculture

led by 3rd generation capatáz