On a Friday afternoon last month, as a winter storm closed in on my mountain town, I made a few last-minute stops to stock up on provisions for what promised to be a snowed-in weekend. The final stop on my checklist was my local butcher, to pick up a cut of pork I’d never considered preparing before Chez Panisse chef Gary Podesto created a recipe he called “Coppa à la Matignon” for our Adventures Club last winter…

Last year, after forty years, Olivier and Francine Savary retired from the domaine they built from the ground up, making way for their sons, Mathieu and Maxime, to take over. Though 2024 is the last vintage the entire family worked together side-by-side (officially), “Papa” Olivier, ever the doting dad, will offer wisdom and guidance as needed…

Beyond the brilliance of each release—you’ll find layers of elegant fruit, pristine transparency from site to site, and Kimmeridgian minerality in spades in each bottle—it is the Lavantureux’s humble, studied approach to the craft that is most striking.

The magnificent Aeolian Islands are a string of volcanic islands north  of Sicily that include Vulcano, Lipari, Salina, Panarea, Stromboli (an active  volcano), Filicudi, and Alicudi. Capers are a primary local export, particularly from Salina and Lipari—the two largest and most populous of the islands— but Antonino “Nino” Caravaglio is at once the caper champion of the region and its wine maestro. He has built what is unquestionably the most qualitative collection of vineyards and wines in this little slice of Italy…

On a bluebird Saturday morning in May of 2023, I awoke in the village of Chablis. Peering out my hotel window, I could just distinguish the small moving shapes of workers among the hillsides of leafy vines. It was day one of my first-ever KLWM work trip, and the next two weeks would bring me and my colleagues through seven regions and two countries, driving more than a thousand miles and visiting three dozen producers along the way. On this particular day, we were focused on a relatively small slice of the map: Northern Burgundy...

The twelve wines in this collection are divided into two categories: six bottles from vignerons we consider to be living legends, and six bottles from rising stars. If you tasted all twelve wines blind, or without reading about them first, you wouldn’t be able to tell which wines fall into which camp…

If you were to walk into our brick-and-mortar shop at 1605 San Pablo Ave in Berkeley—or our new store at the Marin Country Mart—and ask for help putting together a case of twelve diverse French classics regardless of price, Clos La Coutale’s Cahors would make the cut every time...

A Burgundy fanatic, Giulia has extensively studied the subtleties of her own terroir, searching for the nuances responsible for diverse expressions of Nebbiolo within her holdings...

All four of these wines age in large barrels for seven years, a relative eternity during which profound depth, structure, and a mesmerizing range of flavors form. When they are finally bottled, the results are dry reds that retain freshness and poise, while delivering epic complexity and power...

Here is a collection of recent arrivals. Every week, we’ll be adding a dozen or more new arrivals, so check back often for your favorite classics or new discoveries!

An ever-changing offering of wines that are just about to sell out; one last opportunity to seize a range of selections before they disappear from our shelves forever.

Our five wine clubs feature our best values from France and Italy as well as complex and cellar-worthy wines.

From the volcanic Garganegas of Davide Vignato to the lively whites and reds of Corte Gardoni to the majestic reds of Quintarelli, all of these wines would be right at home among the dazzling fireworks and spectacle of the closing ceremony in nearby Verona...