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2018 was a warm

run alongside Domaine Paul Pillot in Chassagne

The 2021 vintage was cold and cruelly small across Burgundy after frost gutted the crop

Juan Carlos Vizcarra's family works estate vineyards at 800-plus meters

Marco de Bartoli Sicilia Bianco Pietranera 2024 spirits-template @ployezjacquemart)In 1989, Marco de Bartoli did something nobody on Pantelleria had thought to do: he made Zibibbo dry. The grape had been the island's dessert wine workhorse for centuries, and turning it into a serious dry white was close to heretical. Pietranera means black stone, for the volcanic rubble the vines grow in, and it comes from a plot in the Cufura district planted in 1957 on north facing terraces at 350 meters, where the sun is kinder. It is aromatic