Cave Geisse – and rebuilding Brazil's Serra Gaúcha

At the end of April, Brazil’s southernmost state Rio Grande do Sul, including the country’s most significant wine region of Serra Gaúcha, was hit by torrential rain leading to severe flooding in the days following, as Sam reported in her Wine news in 5, with an update a week later.

Earlier in the year, Daniel Geisse of Cave Geisse had offered to send me some samples of his estate-grown traditional-method sparkling wines, produced in the Pinto...