Laberinto Valle del Maule Pais Arcillas 2022 Old Rioja with a slower evolution and

with a slower evolution and a longer life ahead

A classic Northwest IPA from Occidental Brewing in Portland

Pauline and Géraud Fromont's Marnes Blanches belongs near the top of the list — a couple who founded their domaine in 2006 fresh out of winemaking school

The Blanc is a textbook southern Rhone white blend — Roussanne-led (with Marsanne and Viognier)

The estate has been farmed organically and biodynamically (Demeter certified in 2015) across a patchwork of parcels that also produce bread

Laberinto Valle del Maule Pais Arcillas 2022 Old Rioja with a slower evolution andRafael Tirado planted his Maule vineyard with the rows running every which way, one block laid out as an actual labyrinth, which is how the estate got its name. Up at 1,800 feet on granite in the Andean foothills near Colbun, he farms Pais, the grape Spanish missionaries brought to Chile centuries ago and that almost everyone spent the last hundred years dismissing as peasant wine. Arcillas means clays, and that is the point: wild yeast fermentation,