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Let’s explore 5 wines I am buying in 2025 and perhaps you should too. From wines I have recently fallen in love with to hidden gems that deserve way more attention to classics I just can’t keep in my wine fridge for long.
**WINES / PRODUCERS FEATURED OR MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
🍷Famille Lieubeau Muscadet Sevre-et-Maine Le Confluent, Loire, France
🍷Domaine aux Moines Savennieres La Roche aux Moines, Loire, France
🍷Domaine Huet Vouvray ‘Clos du Bourg’ Demi-Sec, Loire, France
🍷Francois Cotat Sancerre Les Culs de Beaujeu, Loire, France
🍷Gerard Boulay Sancerre Les Monts Damnes, Loire, France
🍷Domaine Vacheron Sancerre, Loire, France
🍷Bodegas Frontonio ‘Telescopico’ Garnacha, Vino de la Tierra de Valdejalon, Spain
🍷Egly-Ouriet, Champagne, France
🍷Chartogne-Taillet Les Barres Extra Brut, Champagne, France
🍷Laherte Freres ‘Ultradition’ Extra Brut, Champagne, France
🍷Pietracupa Taurasi DOCG, Campania, Italy
🍷Bodegas Luis Perez ‘Caberrubia’ Saca VII, Andalucia, Spain
🍷Bodegas Barbadillo, Andalucia, Spain
🍷Bodegas Cota 45, Andalucia, Spain
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**CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO:
0:00 Wines I’m Buying in 2025
0:42 Loire Valley White Wines
2:48 High-Altitude Garnacha (Grenache)
4:29 Champagne (Obviously)
6:16 Taurasi (Campania, Italy)
7:49 Unfortified Jerez (Sherry)
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33 Comments
I have admit Agnese, I’m not sure what I’ll be adding this year. Two primary reasons are change and cost. Prices seem to be getting insane.
Garnacha is truly underrated and amazing value for money. I recently bought a case of Viña Zorzal Señora de las Alturas (Lady of the heights) and am in love
Apple cider is fun
Sancerre! Jean Paul Balland! What delight….peachy
I like white wines from the Loire !
Loire whites (and reds for that matter) will continue to feature heavily on my shopping list. On top of that wines of both colours from Northern Spain are super interesting. And spätburgunder from Baden!
Just bought several cases of Mosel Riesling because the 2023 vintage is magical!
Hi Agnese, I'm writing to you from Italy and I really like your videos. Try this wine! LE ANFORE, ROSSO SALENTO by MASSO ANTICO in Puglia😊
Best 5 wine 🍷 video ever Agnese 🎉!
Crossing my fingers 🤞 that 2023 will be declared a vintage year by several port houses. Will stock up if that's the case!
Telescopico yesssss
I see Laherte, I get thirsty. I just wish that Champagne would follow the Bordeaux route and get cheaper. As much as I love my champagne, most stuff has become too expensive for a "daily drinker"
I've been drinking Sancerre since the late 1970s-early 1980s. The high end is astonishing and I was lucky enough to do come across, by pure accident, François Cotat who was racking wines outside his winery (how basic the set up was still blows my mind). He graciously invited me and a friend of mine to do some barrel tasting (this must have been around 88' or 89' or so, right before he retired). They were a revelation concerning what you could do with sauvignon in the Loire valley. I subsequently bought a half case of 1989 la Grande Côte which sold at the outrageous price of $30 a bottle back then (I think that's about right). I drank the last bottle in 2019. Yup, a 30 year-old bottle of Sancerre. And it was ridiculously, outrageously delicious. Wish my grand cru burgundies were that consistent.
In the meantime, I will say that I don't enjoy run-of-the-mill Sancerre much anymore. It used to be a screechingly acidic wine that could often be undrinkable but also often hit the sweet spot (I'm definitely an acid hound). Today, the lower-level wines are too often flabby, lacking the mouth-puckering refreshing quality they once had. I suspect a mixture of winemaking that strives for more ripeness and global warming as the controlling factors in this trend. That's certainly what is destroying Burgundy
Muscadet, on the other hand, is probably the most consistent, across the price range pleasurable white I know (and thanks for shouting it out!). From the 10 euro bottle at an oyster stand to the higher-end Muscadet's being made today, it's definitely a major wine value.
Also, if you are in France (not much available here, sadly), don't overlook the white of Saumur!
Had a wonderful trip to Madrid 8 years ago, asked for that style of wine. The local bartenders and sommeliers were mega smiles and it went a bit crazy… but so many beautiful wines and smiles
Since I’m a danish winemaker in Sweden, I’m sure danish and Swedish wine will take up a significant chunk
nice commentary today. want to try this garnacha you mentioned. up to now ive only collected wine from priorat,monsant, or chateanuf du pape. Hope more people start to experince garnacha or grenache. the wines after a few years of aging are mind boggling
I always enjoy your vids. I have not got into tasting sherry (Jerez)fino but want to real soon.
Alvarinho from Monção e Megalço! Galicia gets all the attention with this grape- with considerable justification of course!- but I’ve had several from Monção e Melgaço which showed me a whole other level of the grape.
Have you been to Südsteiermark, Austria and tasted their Sauvignon Blanc and also Gelber Muskateller? Awesome
Wines of the Loire Valley are stunning and frankly under appreciated.. Well done !
Thank’s for reminding me I need to try more Aglianico and sherry. I think I’ll try to get more Aglianico, sherry, white wine and probably South African wine.
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What I'm Buying in 2025: Grenache & Syrah from Cayuse in Washington State, Cab Sauvignon from Tor & Stags Leap in Napa, Zinfandel from Wilson & Mazzocco in Sonoma, Zin & Petit Verdot from Michael David in Lodi, Ca, Carmenere from Chile (probably one of the subsidaries of Concha y Tora). Note All reds. My Whites come from all over, New Zealand, California, Burgundy, Loire.
Are Jerez wines under 15% alcohol a better value?
For me I'd love to try as many as possible Swiss wines, as living here for few years now I've been looking elsewhere all that time, but I have to stop as there's plenty to offer here and it's about time to discover it. And Jura, Jura being close to me will always be a strong candidate
You should try wines from Telmo Rodriguez and Commando G if you want to see different and unique expressions of Garnacha!
thanks for reminding me of Bodegas Frontonio, tried some time ago, was good
Yup. The Loire provides wines of variety and value. Keep in mind Cremant de Loire for delectable, affordable sparklers. We visitied Saumur several years ago and discovered these mostly Chenin Blanc based delights.
Great recommendations! Gredos is a fantastic zone that is giving some of the best garnachas anywhere. You can still find some great value there
Just received a big order of Ube. This region is so interesting right now!
Loved this! I plan on buying more Nebbiolo from Italy along with trying more of the unique Italian native varietals I have not yet tried, (Ruche, Erbaluce, Cesanese, etc.). So getting deeper and deeper into Italy and all it has to offer!
Grenache has been always popular here in Australia.
Loved this. FWIW: My current "obsession" is WHITE Chateaneuf-du-Pape. They're not all great, but a lot of them are absolutely kinetic and bursting with flavor and complexity… and meant to be drank fairly young. And that is really nice sometimes — to have a very high quality wine that you can buy at a retail store and don't feel the need to cellar in order to enjoy. Some of my favorites: Beaucastel (NOT the VV Roussanne, which I have had many times and think is overrated, but the regular CdP cuvee), Clos des Papes, Clos La Roquet, Vieux Telegraphe, and my very favorite is Pegau's Cuvee a Tempo, which is expensive, but one of my very favorite dry whites on the planet. All of these from the 2020 or even 2022 vintage can be consumed at cellar temperature with a 45 minute decant right now. And they're delightful. I'm looking forward to trying many more this year.