2020 Domaine de la Mariniere Chinon Vieilles Vignes 1.5L Magnum, Loire Valley, France Virginia It is bottled without filtration

It is bottled without filtration or clarification on a waning moon in September

A fantastically light Zinfandel

who organically tends and hand harvests her hundred-plus-year-old vines

2014 Champagne Lelarge-Pugeot

flamboyant take on Syrah from Scotty Boy

2020 Domaine de la Mariniere Chinon Vieilles Vignes 1.5L Magnum, Loire Valley, France Virginia It is bottled without filtrationA selection of the estate wine's oldest vines. '20 is a pliant, impressive wine. The Domaine de la Marinire, situated in Panzoult on the eastern edge of Chinon, has been farmed by the Desbourdes family since 1965. The land here was initially used as a true, polycultural farm, raising animals and growing cereal grains in addition to grapes. Renaud Desbourdes returned to help his father in the 1980s, turning the focus to grape growing and winemaking and