Intellego "Kedungu" 20222022 Intellego Kedungu feels like a wine poured mid conversationunpolished in the best way, alive with motion. Pale and lightly hazy, it opens on tart strawberry, crushed raspberry, and pomegranate skin, edged with rose petal, pink peppercorn, and a faint herbal bitterness that recalls dried stems and sun warmed earth. The palate is feather light but energetic, all nervy acidity and gentle grip, finishing saline and refreshingly raw. Less about polish

The former convent’s cool

A very impressive behemoth

but lithely insistent—a ribbon of wild red cherry and raspberry draped over crushed violets and a bramble of herbs de Provence

built for conversation

with acidity that keeps everything lifted and precise

and drinkability over overt power

designed to bring a fuller sense of place and pleasure to every pour

remarkably refined and distinctive bouquet of broom blossoms intertwined with flinty lemon aromas of crushed stones

the same soil type that—in both Sancerre and Chablis—gives the wine minerality

but to simply explore its crystalline depths

my father has made wine every year since 1973

2023 Union Sacré Edelzwicker — A gently rambling Alsatian-in-spirit white that wears its humility well