Stony, spicy, and dense, it evokes red berries, watermelon, and garrigue and offers a beautiful accompaniment to a wide range of dishes.

These Barbera vines sit in a privileged Barolo site, so there is no shortage of pedigree.

A pure Syrah bottling offering wild flavors of the Provençal countryside gently wrapped in a thick coat of tooth-staining deep purple fruit.

Rich, ripe fruit with the delicacy and floral notes we love in great Barbaresco.

This dreamy wine, perfect for aperitivo, reaffirms that we should turn more often to Piedmont not only for our reds but also for our whites!

Full-bodied style, golden, old-school Chardonnay with a chalky base.

The Padova family’s Spaccaforno is generous but not heavy, with suggestions of blackberry, licorice, and spice leading to a lively, chalky finish.

October Club Gourmand ~ Dry red Italian sparkling wine with dinner? You’ll love it.

Its dark fruit is boldly mouth-filling, yet smooth and juicy, even crunchy when served with a slight chill.

The perfect bottling to open alongside light, grilled cod or haddock, but if you’re like me, you won’t be able to wait until dinner is served to pop the cork

You may find it to be leaner and livelier than the rich, plush Merlots of Pomerol and Saint Emilion

Often featuring grand cru fruit, this bottling is arguably the ideal entry point to Boxler’s range of magnificent white wines.

The oak adds a grain and level of class and backbone that raises this cuvée a step above the domaine’s classic Sancerre bottling.

Lime blossoms delivered via a lightning bolt of minerally refreshment.

Sparkling Sale Selection, 20% off this month! Not crafted to be luscious Champagne; it’s textural, and energetic, with zesty citrus notes and crunchy fruit. If you’re looking for the perfect palate opener, this mood-brightener, with its fervent and fine bead, will prime you for a sparkling soirée.

A relatively new addition to Guy Breton’s Beaujolais lineup, this exuberant Côte de Brouilly is flat-out delicious.

One of the first rosés Kermit imported, this wine has been consistently delicious for four decades.

Aromas of wildflowers, saffron, beeswax, and Mediterranean herbs. Rich, fleshy, and focused, all at just 12% alcohol.

Supple, pretty notes of freshly crushed blackberries and raspberries—it will pair well with pretty much anything.

This Tour du Bon rouge, with its juicy nose and bright, crunchy fruit, its mouthwatering acidity and peppery verve, is particularly elegant.

If you can’t make it to the south of France this year, here’s a way to bring the Mediterranean sun to you.

Aligoté may actually be an even more precise conduit for Burgundian terroir than Chardonnay.

With aromas of apple blossom and marzipan, this Chardonnay is hard to resist on its own, but would be the perfect accompaniment to a semi-hard cheese like comté or baked steelhead trout.

This thirst-quenching, bright, and plummy red is enhanced with a little bit of chill and perfect for grillables.

This blend of youthful, floral Chardonnay contains just a splash of exotic sous-voile Savagnin.

If Beaujolais were Burgundy, we might consider Morgon to be Vosne-Romanée, with its haunting perfume and silky texture, the proverbial iron fist in a velvet glove.

All you need to know is that this wine drinks like a Beaujolais with loads of black, sappy fruit and is ounce per ounce more pleasurable and delicious than anything you’d find in a collector’s stash.

This Riesling “Katz,” as we call it, is a beautifully linear and chiseled style of Riesling, fresh and pure.

December Club Gourmand ~ A generous wine dominated by ripe black fruit with very supple, approachable tannins.

Lightly golden in color, it conjures up a day spent in the sun: seabreezes and ripe honeydew, including its subtle, savory rind.

Each refreshing sip goes down lighter than air, keeping your palate clean and refreshed for whatever comes next.

Smooth and seductive on the palate, Cuvée Beauvais offers a resurgence of silky fruit and florals—like blackberries and roses, without the thorns.

Aromas of black fruit, graphite, wild herbs, and game over firm, stony tannins. Saturated with flavors of the Île de Beauté.

Aromas of black pepper, briny black olive, and violets with the earthiness, herbs, and concentration of southern Rhône Grenache.

Deceptively light on its feet, it finishes with an impressive tannin that begs for a hearty stew or your favorite cut of steak.

This inky, chewy blend of Cannonau with the native Muristellu boasts a strikingingly wild perfume that soars from the glass.

Chinons from Joguet are known for their firm minerality, but this one is quite charming as well, with plummy black fruit, myrtle, and notes of warm licorice.

Ultra elegant yet energized, fresh, and juicy. An all-natural wine that’s just easy to love.

Fine, with bright acid, sleek silkiness, and great length, it is the most elegant of all of Thierry’s red wines.

As seamlessly as it will pair with all kinds of dishes, from a seared pork chop to cacio e pepe—you don’t even need food. It is that graceful!

Rochebonne offers Chardonnay fruit that’s both racy and sun-kissed

This bottling is classic Brouilly, balanced and old-school, and showcases the beauty of Gamay

Imagine if in Alsace, deep beneath the earth, there were a Riesling aquifer...

A perfect mix of fennel, strawberry, and some Corsican sun.

The palate is dense and ripe, yet wonderfully smooth and elegant. Racines seems to tap into the history of Les Pallières, the prestige and the high-toned elegance.

Vauprin showcases Chardonnay’s ability to produce a wine that is simultaneously both round and taut in this mighty northern Burgundian terroir.

If Hermitage were grown in the Provençal Alps...

Tuscan Pinot Noir—or Pinot Nero, as it’s called there—has no right to be this good.

The blend is equal parts Roussanne, Grenache Blanc, and Clairette. Together, they create a wine that has a complex mouth-feel that finishes with a nice refreshing acidity.

A structured, terroir-driven Cabernet Sauvignon for the ages.

Earthy Pinot Gris as dramatic and flinty as this, with a hint of residual sugar, demands an assertive pairing; try it with smoked sausage and mustard.

Peppery and bright, earthy and juicy all at once.

This lithe and expressive “orange” wine is an ideal palate-opener with a dry, cleansing finish and a fresh, cooling effect like coastal sage and seaspray.

There is blood orange on the palate, soil tones, iron, and a stony backbone. The luscious character of this vintage is on full display in this deliciously approachable bottle.

A 50/50 assemblage of Ugni Blanc and Vermentino, the two varieties meld together to create a white that breaks the mold entirely for what we’ve come to expect from this magical stretch of Provençal coastline.

A one-of-a-kind, high-altitude, fully dry Moscato. Bright fruit and granitic minerality in an utterly thirst-quenching package.

The violets, tapenade, and juicy black fruit in your glass is much unchanged from how it’s always been (and should be).

A Niellucciu-based rosé that is so fresh, pure, and invigorating, while delivering a healthy dose of Mediterranean brine.

Gentle and refreshing on the palate, it boasts a delightful balance of stony minerality with luscious, almost honeyed fruit and flowery notes.

This cuvée is dark-fruited velvet in a bottle.

Whatever snacks are on your table or picnic blanket, this blanc will fit the bill with its pretty notes of green apple, citrus, and subtle tropical fruits.

Fumin truly is, as Feuillet’s vigneron Maurizio Fiorano puts it, “an age-old pearl of local enology.”

A cold glass hits the spot every single time, bursting over the taste buds with bright citrus, wild strawberry, and a juicy finish.

This wine showcases everything I seek for in a dry Gewurztraminer. The nose shows pure, delicate aromas of fresh lychee and exotic fruit.

Think classic, spirited Sangiovese with a wilder, slightly darker-fruited, herb-singed character from the ancient seaside maquis-studded limestone.

Pinot Beurot is the Burgundian name for their local strand of Pinot Gris. It is unique and delicious and showcases an interesting bit of Burgundy’s history.

It is the up-and-coming white Corsican grape, rapidly winning back the reputation it had earned so long ago.

There is something exotic here, something herbal, quite serious with great tension.

This white, raised in demi-muids with malolactic fermentation, flamboyantly shows off the affinity of ripe Vermentinu grapes with a judicious use of wood.

One of five or six most outstanding dry whites of the Mediterranean rim, vintage after vintage and worth every centime!

A biodynamic, orange-zesty, multifaceted masterpiece from the most ancient growing region on the island.

This wine is full of fresh Grenache fruit, beautifully perfumed, with a refined and elegant finish.

A gentle wave of peach, melon, and spring flowers rolls over the palate and lingers long past your last sip.

Charly Thévenet and his father, Jean Paul, now bottle a range of five different wines in their cellars in Villié-Morgon

Muriel Giudicelli’s Patrimonio rouge is elegant, deep, bursting with ripe black fruits, silky smooth, and offering great length.

Layered and textural, this tightly bound opus will open and unfurl itself with time, be it an hour in a decanter or decades in the cellar.

A simply stunning white that seems to not just elevate the food on your plate, but your entire mood. Your surroundings will melt away as you get lost in your glass.

Contrary to the usual rough and tannic reds of the far-reaching Côtes de Provence appellation, this is fresh and lively! A gem hidden in the hills.

A generous dash of plump, sun-ripened fruit enveloping a granite core.

A thirst-quenching, spirit-lifting, and downright delicious white Burgundy.

Aligoté may actually be an even more precise conduit for Burgundian terroir than Chardonnay.

December Adventures Club ~ This Fleurie beautifully combines high-toned finesse with a potent depth. Can a wine be delicately intense?