2021 Pontet Canet Pauillac Orange Bideona is bucking that system

Bideona is bucking that system and taking a more Burgundian approach to Rioja - region-village and single vineyard

have wheat and other crops

Fourth-generation Didier Defaix farms organically

producing Portugal's first-ever Vinhas Velhas wine and eventually leaving the DOC by choice to make wine on his own terms

Claudio's father bought this tiny Cannubi Boschis parcel in 1972 and the family has bottled it separately since 1980 — five generations in Monforte d'Alba making some of the most quietly brilliant Barolo in the zone

2021 Pontet Canet Pauillac Orange Bideona is bucking that systemPontet Canet is a 5th growth according to the 1855 classification, many regard this as a super second and if reclassified today would rank as a 2nd. Classic steak wine!