Te Mata Estate in New Zealand's Hawke's Bay has been making wine continuously for 130 years—longer than almost any other vineyard in the Southern Hemisphere
low-intervention hand on this chalk is a genuinely interesting proposition — this is a village that punishes anyone hoping to make it plush or easy
the peppery native red of eastern Friuli had been all but abandoned - a scattering of old vines
Wurzelecht means own-rooted: these vines sit on their own roots
The Bela-Joska vineyard is one of their finest sites
Domaine Raimbault-Pineau, Sancerre Blanc, 2025 SoGatta121825 Te Mata Estate in NewClassic Sancerre from a family that has farmed Sury en Vaux for centuries thirteen generations, tracing back to a vigneron born in 1610. Domaine Raimbault Pineau works some 40 plots scattered around the village just north of Sancerre town, drawing on all three of the appellation's signature soils caillottes (rocky limestone), terres blanches (clay limestone with marine fossils), and silex (flint). The 2025 is the house Sancerre Blanc, pressed gently,