The Wider World

From Tim

Outside France I buy the way I do inside it, from producers I trust and wines that have had time. Rioja is the backbone, with Roda, La Rioja Alta and Merino, and Navarra gets a place because it sits next door and costs half as much. I keep Italian whites with age on them because hardly anybody bothers to age them. A few New World producers are here because they make wine I'd put next to its Old World cousins, and Kumeu River's Chardonnay, which gets mistaken for white Burgundy, is the easy example.