2020 Jerome Chezeaux Les Suchots Vosne-Romanee Premier Cru, France Starlight Distillery It offers a superb even

It offers a superb even if still rather ripe and reduced nose made of fine herbal elements

La Gritona is a woman-led tequila made entirely by hand at Vinos y Licores Azteca (NOM 1533) in the Valle de Guadalupe

not at all cloying but quite intense overall

a good match for those first days of autumnwhen you reach for a light sweater

then ground with roller mills and fermented with native yeasts in open stainless tanks

2020 Jerome Chezeaux Les Suchots Vosne-Romanee Premier Cru, France Starlight Distillery It offers a superb evenWith grand crus Romane Saint Vivant and Richebourg right next door, premier cru Les Suchots lies in one of the most elite neighborhoods in the Cote dOr. Chezeaux owns a third of a hectare here, and this is often the greatest wine in his cellar. A whirlwind of intoxicating Vosne spice ushers in fruit both broad and precise, yet somehow everything remains focused; its a tour de force, vintage after vintage.