Garage Wine Co. NV Maule Valley ‘Old Vine Field Blend’ Derek Mossman, his wife Pilar Miranda, and Dr. Alvaro Peña are producing 1,500 cases total per year of old-vine Carignan, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, with fruit sourced from small growers in Maule and Maipo. The Old-Vine Field Blend is made Solera style. Sometimes in the cellar a particular barrel simply does not fit with the others. It’s delicious but it is too hard– unready. These barrels are collected and are put back in the cellar to give them more time…just a few years more time to calm down. Eventually they are included in this solera. Bright and vibrant on the palate, with rose petal aromas resonating through red and blue fruits, a variety of baking spices and a hint of turned earth and leather.

Chateau Tour Chaigneau 2022 Lalande-de-Pomerol Château Tour Chaigneau spreads over 21 hectares on a clay-limestone soils with iron dross. It is located at the highest point of the Néac plateau and in the continuity of the most prestigious part of the Pomerol plateau, at 800m as the crow flies from Château Petrus. The Château Tour Chaigneau is a wine made from specific parcels of the vineyard, further north on the Pomerol plateau. The terroir is clay and limestone with iron dross, allowing the cultivation of magnificent merlot, both ripe and deep. 92% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Pressac.

Reserve de Marande 2024 Pinot Noir The Réserve de Marande range offers seductive and generous wines, produced in Southern France, in the Languedoc region. Part of this wine is harvested quite early in the harvest season and ferments at low temperatures to exalt fruity aromas. The other part, fully ripe, undergoes a traditional, long maceration. 60% is aged with French oak staves for several months. Lovely aromas of raspberry and cherry, subtle smokey and peppery hints with some thyme. On the palate it is fruity, elegant, well-balanced with a silky long finish: a dream-like Pinot Noir.

Domaine Notre Dame des Pallières 2023 Côtes Du Rhône Rouge “Les Rieus” Who doesn’t love an intense, mineral-rich Rhone sourced from vines growing on the fluviatile alluvium of the quaternary?!? Domaine Notre Dame des Pallières is a very old family estate, whose name comes from a place of pilgrimage visited by the Provençal people in the middle ages who believed that the fountain on the property would protect them from the plague. Claude Roux and his cousin Jean-Pierre have so many generations of Gigondas wine-making experience in their family that they don’t know exactly how many of their relatives have been involved up to now – Antique writings suggest that this Domain existed in the 900’s. Fortunately, this tradition is continuing with Claude’s children, Isabelle and Julien, gradually taking over the day-to-day responsibilities of farming, production, and administration. Vineyard holdings total 74 acres in Gigondas, Sablet, and Cotes du Rhone.

Tenuta di Sesta 2023 Rosso di Montalcino Since 1995 the winery has been managed by Giovanni Ciacci, who has since been joined by his children Andrea and Francesca in the areas of business and agronomic management. For the Ciacci family, traditional aging in big oak barrels and renewed vineyard management based on climatic changes and in favor of the territory constitutes the best strategy to obtain wines that best express the territory of Montalcino. You know the buzz surrounding 2023’s from Tuscany, and this “baby Brunello” from the traditional Tenuta di Sesta estate is a knockout. It comes from Sangiovese Grosso grown at 280 – 350 m above sea level with southern exposure and sits between Sant’Angelo in Colle and Castelnuovo dell’Abate. Very aromatic with mineral, deep red fruits and floral aromas. Harmonious taste, medium body with silky tannins and clean finish.

Bodegas Raíces Ibéricas 2023 Las Pizarras The biggest misfit from the ‘Top 100 Wine Spectator’ 2025 list! This is a Calatayud favorite… “A fruit-forward red, loaded with ripe mulberry, boysenberry and plum fruit, with accompanying aromatics of rosemary, anise, graphite and peppercorn. Thick and creamy on the palate, with bright, blood orange–infused acidity and lightly chalky tannins firming the finish. Garnacha and Syrah. Drink now through 2030. 17,000 cases made, 3,000 cases imported. 90 points, #65 Top 100 Wines of 2025” – Alison Napjus, Wine Spectator

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