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Pascal Bozzi and his father at the Domaine du Château Larroque There are five hectares of vines (along with seventy-five hectares of cereals, sunflowers, and pasturage) at this ancient working farm in Sainte Christie, in the heart of the Armagnac region. Pascal Bozzi renovated the original eighteenth-century cellar ten years ago, and with the help of his enologist friend Stéphane Beuret, grows about 2000 cases of the most elegant…
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Maurizio Lambardi and friend in Montalcino The Lambardi family bought the Canalicchio di Sotto estate in 1965, and produced their first Brunello di Montalcino (all of 500 bottles) in 1973. Today there are six hectares of vineyards; almost all devoted to the production of D.O.C.G. Brunello di Montalcino, along with a small volume of Rosso di Montalcino and a little Sant'Antimo Bianco. Production is a minuscule 1200 cases among the…
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Andreas Laible and Greg Moore on the Plauelrain The Laibles have been growers in Durbach since the seventeenth century, but their reputation as one of the finest producers of estate-bottled wine in Germany dates from the early 1990s. Today, young Andreas Laible manages the vineyard and cellar, while his father (also Andreas) concentrates on the beautiful clear brandies that he distills from black cherries and yellow plums. Almost…
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Peter Jacko Kühn preparing the cow horns for the biodynamic vineyards Peter Kühn, who farms eighteen hectares of gently sloping clay-limestone vineyards in Oestrich and Mittelheim, and a steeper hillside of weathered slate in Hallgarten, represents the eleventh generation of Kühns to grow wine in the Rheingau. He was already a leader of the “Rheingau Renaissance” of the 1990s, having created one of the top estates in Germany, when…
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Peter and Brigitte Pliger began producing wines under the Kuen hof name in 1990. Their six hectares of land — located just outside the town of Bressanone, a short distance from the Austrian border – have been in the family for two hundred years and planted to vines since the twelfth century. Perfectly situated at 600 meters above sea level for the traditional varietals, Veltliner, Sylvaner, Riesling and Traminer, the schisty soils…
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