What I’ve been drinking (and loving)
Monthly wine recs
I’ve been thinking about how I talk about wine when I’m not trying to explain it to anyone. When it’s just for me. No structure, no need to be educational, no pressure to be “right.” So this is that. Just a few bottles I’ve been drinking lately and can’t stop thinking about.
Gut Oggau - Maskerade Rosé 2024/2025
It’s no secret that I love Gut Oggau. I’ve been a fan for a while, but after hearing Eduard speak last year at one of his lectures - about how everything is connected (farming, the stars, people, wine, life, all of it) - I became slightly insufferable about their wines. During a conversation after his lecture, Eduard told me, almost dismissively, not too worry too much about the specific grape varieties in his wines. Instead to taste the farming, the place, the natural fermentation.
Most of their wines sit slightly above my casual drinking budget, soe they tend to be more of a special moment situation. Which is why I go disproportionally excited when they released two more accessible bottles: Maskerade Rose and Maskerade Weiss. Both are field blends from 2024 and 2025, bottles with a touch of residual sugar and closed with a crown cap - which, I’ll say it, I find charming. I went for the rose first. Although rose feels amost too simple a word for it. Some might call it a light red, or one of those in-between ruby situations. I tend to go with what the produces says, it’s their wine, after all.
Unlike the rest of the Gut Oggau lineup, where each wine has a name, a face, a fully formed personality, the Maskerade wines are intentionally left… unresolved. Too young, they say. Not ready to be revealed. So they stay masked. Which I love, conceptually. Because, honestly, i have a soft spot for young wines. If they’re meant to be drunk youn that is. Nothing to wait for. Just something to enjoy exactly as it is.
The first sip surprised me. Strawberry jam, yes, buit balanced by a freshness I wasn’t expecting. There’s acidity, but it doesn’t bite. It just holds everything together. It feels playful, almost like something is happening mid-sip. And as the bottles goes one (quickly), it softens. Opens. Becomes a little rounder, a little calmer, without losing it’s initial energy. This is, without a doubt, what I’ll be drinking all summer.
Buronfosse - Se Kwa Sa 2022
Poulsard, Trousseau, Pinot Noir, Gamay
A wine with probably my favorite grape varieties at the moment. I’ve been having a bit of a love affair with Jura, and Gamay will always be my schoolgirl crush. The variety that introduced me to natural wine, the one that shaped my palate in the beginning.
This wine feels like a love letter to the terroir of Jura. The grapes come from different plots, vinified individually, each holding onto a sense of where they come from. When they come together, for about 12 months of aging, it all just… works.
You get a bit of spice, a bit of lightness, a bit of earth. At first, it feels slightly introverted. Like it’s holding back. But give it a few swirls and it opens up quickly. Suddenly it’s talking to the whole table. A bit of an extrovert, actually. Still, don’t expect it to be for everyone. Its charm feels a little more selective than that.
In terms of quality, Domaine Buronfosse makes beautiful, considered wines. The kind that are worth paying attention to.
Se Kwa Sa—C’est quoi ça? What is that?
Unconventional, a little whimsical. I’m not entirely sure what it is. I just know I loved it.