The People
Estates enter our collection through a handshake, a walk through the rows, and years of watching how they behave in difficult vintages.
Château Aldemar · Pauillac, Bordeaux
“A great vintage is mostly the art of not interfering.”
Eleventh generation at Aldemar, Élise trained in Napa and Piedmont before returning to Pauillac in 2009. She has quietly moved the estate toward organic farming while refusing to modernise a single step of the cellar.
Tenuta Mirasole · Montalcino, Tuscany
“Sangiovese forgives nothing and rewards everything.”
A former architect who inherited the convent estate at thirty-four, Tommaso replanted the oldest terraces by hand and ages his Brunello in casks coopered from the estate's own oak grove.
Weingut Falkenberg · Mosel
“On slate this steep, every bottle is a small act of defiance.”
Anneke harvests slopes her great-grandfather terraced by hand, and has declined every offer to mechanise. Her Auslese is made in quantities so small that allocation letters have become collectors' items themselves.
Bodega Los Cerros · Valle de Uco, Mendoza
“The Andes are our cellar wall. We just built a roof.”
Joaquín farms at 1,450 metres where frost can take a vintage overnight. His high-parcel Malbec, foot-trodden and raised in untoasted foudre, redefined what Mendoza altitude wine could be.