Kaferberg is to Gruner Veltliner roughly what Heiligenstein is to Riesling: the site everyone in the Kamptal points to
located in the Côteaux Sud d’Épernay and the Vallée de la Marne
this 5L format offers a magnificent window into mountain-grown California fruit
which is not what this corner of the Loire usually delivers — all held together by a saline
which means Brut Imperial is assembled from a hundred-plus base wines drawn from across Champagne
Sylvie Augereau Anjou Rouge Les Manquants 2022 NO WINE SEARCHER Kaferberg is to Gruner VeltlinerThe French don't have Burning Man. They have La Dive Bouteille, the natural wine gathering that turns a Loire cave into happy pandemonium every winter, and Sylvie Augereau is its driving force. She also, as it happens, makes wine: 1. 5 hectares of old vines overlooking the Loire, worked by hand and horse, no machines, minimal sulfur, some cuvees with none. "Les Manquants" is Cabernet Franc from vines up to a century old, macerated three weeks and aged