2020 Weingut Emmerich Knoll Loibner Chardonnay Smaragd Wachau, Austria Rene Rostaing 2019 Franck Balthazar Cornas Chaillot Choose Class Type:$50 Gift a Wine Curious or Wines for the Table Class concentrated bunches and an 19438 Chandon de Briailles

2019 Franck Balthazar Cornas Chaillot Rhone

I was not surprised that many of my German counterparts found this year’s Goldloch superior to the corresponding Pittermännchen

9 hectares worth of a local obscurity called Malvasia de Sitges—a variety of unknown origin that was nearly decimated by phylloxera in the late 19th century

then racked to stainless steel for 7 more months of aging before bottling

Aged in a single PX cask

2020 Weingut Emmerich Knoll Loibner Chardonnay Smaragd Wachau, Austria Rene Rostaing 2019 Franck Balthazar Cornas Chaillot Choose Class Type:$50 Gift a Wine Curious or Wines for the Table Class concentrated bunches and an 19438 Chandon de Briailles 2019 Franck Balthazar Cornas Chaillot Rhone I was not surprised that many of my German counterparts found this year’s Goldloch superior to the corresponding Pittermännchen