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What Wine to Drink in Autumn: The Best Reds, Full Whites, and Food Pairings

What Wine to Drink in Autumn: The Best Reds, Full Whites, and Food Pairings

Autumn is when wine gets to do a little more work. The food gets heavier, the nights get longer, and suddenly a wine that would've felt like too much in...

Domaine Matassa

Domaine Matassa

Domaine Matassa turns old Catalan vines outside a tiny hillside village into some of the most exciting natural wine coming out of Roussillon, wild and precise all at once. Here's...

What to Bring to a Summer BBQ (That Isn't Beer)

What to Bring to a Summer BBQ (That Isn't Beer)

You know the drill. Someone's hosting, the group chat says "bring something," and forty-five minutes later you're standing in a bodega staring at a six-pack you don't even really want....

Chillable Reds: Your New Summer Go-To

Chillable Reds: Your New Summer Go-To

Red wine doesn't have to sit at room temperature all summer. Some reds genuinely taste better cold, and a handful of the small producers we carry have basically built their...

Pairing Natural Wine with Takeout

Pairing Natural Wine with Takeout

Takeout night doesn't need a plan. Grab a container, grab a bottle, done. But it does help to think about the wine by producer instead of by dish, because once...

The Story Behind California's Most Playful Natural Wine Label

The Story Behind California's Most Playful Natural Wine Label

Folk Machine Wine: There's a bottle we keep reaching for on the shelf that has a bunch of cameras drawn across the label, or sometimes lightbulbs, or something else that...

Jura Wine Is Having a Moment,  So Why Am I Worried?

Jura Wine Is Having a Moment, So Why Am I Worried?

My love for the Jura is tainted by fear for this wine region  It may seem that I am obviously following the hype by writing about a natural wine region...

Why We Can't Stop Talking About the Loire Valley

Why We Can't Stop Talking About the Loire Valley

The Loire If there’s one wine region I find myself constantly coming back to, it’s the Loire Valley. Stretching along France’s longest river, it’s not really a single “region” at...