2023 Damien Guadagnolo Poulsard Cote du Jura Gruner Veltliner Juan Carlos López de Lacalle

Juan Carlos López de Lacalle walked away from the Rioja DOCa rather than let a bureaucratic label obscure the identity of individual villages — "Laguardia alone is bigger than Châteauneuf-du-Pape

The wine is dark

This is one of Oregon's most compelling Syrahs — and one of the most exciting domestic expressions of the variety full stop

Let's chill with this LOVELY bottle of Austrian red

2023 Damien Guadagnolo Poulsard Cote du Jura Gruner Veltliner Juan Carlos López de LacallePoulsard is Jura's most ethereal red grape, and in Guadagnolo's hands it sings. A proper strawberry bomb a touch reductive at first but pleasantly so, with a little stemmy lift on the nose that blows away to reveal a lithe palate of wild, sweet fruit and a long, savoury finish. Featherlight in body, zero sulfur, and utterly captivating this is the kind of wine that converts the unconvinced.