The Native Companion and I arrive at our lodgings at Guerila Wine‘s new cellar facility in the hilltop village of Planina in the dead of night, after everyone has gone to sleep. It isn’t until I wake for my tasting with owner Zmago Petrič the following morning that I become aware of the luxury of the […]
Primož Lavrenčič – the wry, tousle-haired vigneron behind Slovenia’s Burja Estate, in the Vipava valley – shows off […]
Renown doesn’t shower down unbidden upon winemakers in the Côte Roannaise, a 200ha swathe of vineyards in the […]
I first tasted the wines of Jean-Marc Dreyer on a late afternoon in April in the Beaujolais. It […]
All I told the Native Companion and my natural wine journalist colleague Bert Celce of Wine Terroirs, as […]
A few years ago Fleurie winemaker Jules Métras showed me an image on his phone of a bottle […]
Halfway through our tasting with Absentee Winery‘s Avi Deixler one overcast afternoon in March, the Native Companion and […]
