Azienda Agricola Cieck was founded in 1985 by Remo Falconieri—nicknamed "the Archimedes of bubbles"—a typewriter designer at Olivetti who traveled to France to learn sparkling wine production
Arione 2020 is unmistakably Conterno: detailed
it drinks as both an aperitif and food companion
His tiny-production Barolo Paiagallo comes from a high-altitude vineyard just above the town of Barolo itself
with shorter aging that keeps the fruit fresh and the texture supple
Roc des Anges, Cotes Catalanes Blanc 'Iglesia Vella', 2023 PiedmontOfferJan2024 Azienda Agricola Cieck was foundedGrenache Gris is one of wine's great underdogs a grape most of the world blends away or rips out, and one that, in the right hands in the Roussillon, makes some of France's most gripping whites. Marjorie Gallet farms biodynamically in the Catalan foothills, in a region we've long argued is the most exciting corner of southern France precisely because nobody has priced it out yet. Iglesia Vella is her Grenache Gris bottling, and it does not behave like