With its light and elegant notes of citrus and orchard fruit, this is one of the stand-out, exquisitely crafted wines of this region.

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

One of the great reds of the Languedoc. Rhône Valley, look out!

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!

This gorgeous blend of Vermentino, Ugni Blanc, Sémillon, and Clairette is both fleshy and mineral-driven.

Full-bodied yet delicate, infused with the joie de vivre of the south of France.

A stony, spicy cuvée full of Mediterranean sunshine, aromatic garrigue, and a hint of salinity that offers a perfect match for grilled rosemary lamb chops.

Grottafumata’s first release from the “Vigna degli Architetti” delivers deep, ripe fruit with elegance and grace.

February Club Bianco ~ Few things are more satisfying as an apéritif than a chilled glass of this Alpine elixir made from 70-year-old vines.

Chotard has crafted a delicious, complex, and elegant rouge that gives many village Burgundies a run for their money.

This Pinot Blanc is weightless, sultry, and lengthy as the day is long.

Its ravishing perfume of miel du maquis, wildflowers, and resinous herbs could come only from Corsica.

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.

Ripe, deep, and almost extravagant in its breadth of aroma and flavor, while a dense, tightly knit core of firm acidity and fine-grained tannins make up a rigid spine.

Entry-level access to one of the masters of the Côte de Beaune.

A beautiful example of Biancu Gentile, an heirloom white grape revived from near-extinction by Arena in the 1990s.

At thirteen years old, its brambly berry notes are but a memory of its youth. They have evolved and taken on a woodsier sophistication of shady underbrush, violet, and nutmeg.

If any Pinot Noir on these pages is built for the Parisian bistro or Lyonnais bouchon, it is this one from the hills of Chignin, in Savoie.

Matthieu Baudry captures both youthful fruit and energizing mineral textures with this rosé.

Moulin-à-Vent has a unique, earthy, chewy edge to it that you just can’t find anywhere else.

Regal, opulent, and commanding—the finest perfumer in all of France couldn’t craft a more stunning scent.

The family’s grandest wine, a brooding elixir of satiny fruit, cedar, and graphite.

Lucky for us, vignerons in the 1980s salvaged this gem of a variety; one sip feels like stepping into technicolor.

February Club Gourmand ~ Delicate, ethereal aroma—gently floral. Rose water, citrus zest, blood orange. Round and airy on the palate. Bright, clean, pure. Crisp finish.

Delicate, precise, and succulent at the same time, this beautiful blanc will pair well with fresh seafood and light summer salads and pastas.

It shows an exotic panoply of sweet aromas—burnt sugar, crème fraîche, roasted pineapple—balanced with an herbal, almost agave-like smokiness.

It is fresh and buoyant enough for casual fare yet has the stuffing to accompany heartier dishes, while its vivid raspberry fruit makes it extremely approachable today, notwithstanding its medium-term aging potential.

Lovely right now, but a candidate for cellaring as well. It is cool to drink some reds cool.

Delicious and honest naturally sparkling Chenin, bottled with no dosage and no sulfur.

Bone-dry on the palate, it features intense, clean aromas with excellent minerality.

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

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

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.

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

Powerful, cellar-worthy dry Chenin aged in chestnut, oak, and acacia.

Luscious and mouth-coating with generous passion fruit and lychee, yet racy at the same time.

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

Salinity in spades, fleshed out by summery golden fruit notes, like baked pineapple.

This is a true homage cuvée, with an old-fashioned soul and vibrant energy.

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

Welcome to depth, complexity, understatement, finesse.

As if a fistful of ripe summer fruit had been smooshed against a hot stone. The name is Corsican for “always happy,” and you’ll understand exactly why immediately upon pulling the cork.

Cap off your holiday feast with a glass of this heavenly Sauternes to experience pure luxury on the palate…

There’s no mistaking this red for anything other than Nebbiolo—perfectly ripe fruit and the telltale scents of tar and roses.

Bouvier fashions a red that is at once serious and gay, generous and firm, bold and elegant.

A fragrant blend of mostly Riesling and Muscat, Félix Meyer’s organically grown Gentil is crisp and lean and works like a reset button for your palate.

Fadat’s bottlings from this terroir have proven to be among the most complex and elegant wines of southern France.

Melony, snappy, bright, and clean, this is a delightful everyday white with a refreshingly different flavor profile.

It is a real-deal northern Rhône roasted-slope Syrah that walks the tightrope perfectly between creamy fruit, meaty tannins, and fresh spine.

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

This lovely Muscat is full of fresh honeysuckle and ripe citrus fruit. Have an ice cream maker? This wine makes the best sorbet you’ll ever taste!

Notes of Cassis, black cherries, and espresso draw you into the glass and keep you coming back to decipher what makes this cuvée and terroir so special.

While it has a crystalline edge, there is a surprising dollop of sun, heft, and deep, creamy notes of white flowers and citrus fruit.

The old-school, vino rosso of our dreams—serve it chilled, perhaps in a glass pitcher, for full trattoria effect.

First, it is impeccable. Second, it does not exceed its appellation; it is not a substitute Romanée Conti; it is a perfect Côte de Nuits-Villages.

After seven years, the 2019 is in its sweet spot, evoking sumptuous fruits like sour plum and fig, which make this cuvée distinctly Provençal.

Sleek, crisp, light, and luminous, with a steely, saline finish.

March Club Chevalier ~ Citrusy aromatics, bracing salinity, and a mineral backbone make it a mouthwatering match for tangy, fresh-herb-laden soups like tom kha gai or pho.

You’ll recognize the root verde in Verdeca, the grape variety in this snappy and slightly aromatic Italian white, and the reason won’t be lost on you.

A full-bodied dose of Terrebrune terroir you can enjoy over the next thirty years.

Germain’s reds are grand examples of the heights biodynamic wines can achieve.

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

It’s beautifully ethereal, with pillowy fruit that tastes so sublime it would be limiting to attempt a description, although quince and verbena jump to mind.

July Club Chevalier ~ If you are unfamiliar with Guido Porro and his world-class Baroli, this is an ideal bottle with which to become acquainted.

Sauvignon and a splash of Chardonnay: the epitome of minerally Loire refreshment

A delightfully lean and bright blanc from Charles Joguet that leaves me yearning to exclaim, “This smells like a green apple picked fresh from a lemon tree!”

Like eating lemon curd at a party that Renoir might have painted—think something like Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette.

The flavors are mostly deep and dark—stones, licorice, black olive, and blackberry—but the frame is lithe.

A Mourvèdre-majority masterpiece, lots of pleasure and even more soul.

Made from vines planted between 1937 and 1976, this cuvée showcases impressive depth and soul.

Bursting with energy and joy, this wine is bound to bring out the best of your inner bon vivant.

The new vintage shows great freshness and brightness, making me think of tart berries picked in the forest just a touch below full ripeness.

A profound red wine full of depth, liveliness, and old-school, rustic character; the intensely gripping, ashy-fine tannin is a trademark of wines from Contrada Pino.

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

Old-vine Moscato from Sardinian mountaintops, 4 days on skins, fermented dry and aged in barrel—heavenly with sea urchin pasta

Its intense aromatics brazenly translate the Pic’s rugged nature, and an almost chewable minerality brings to mind slabs of shattered limestone incarnated as energy, drive, and uncommon length on the palate.

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

A reserve bottling made from Kante's best barrels of citrusy, salt-kissed Malvasia. Aged eight years before release, the wine is textured, vibrant, and delightfully decadent.

A full-throttle Niellucciu from a sun-soaked limestone vineyard in Patrimonio.

March Club Chevalier ~ Everything about this cuvée, from the delicately briny scent of slick oyster shells to the concentrated, pristinely focused sensation on the palate, is a demonstration of why this domaine has become one of Chablis’ very best.

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.

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.

The grape is better known as the Loire Valley’s delicate, citrusy Muscadet, but grown in the land from whence it’s named, it takes on lovely length and texture.

The Jurassic limestone soil and high elevation lieu-dit where the name “Montmajou” springs from lend this blanc a lean elegance.

You’ll find whiffs of both Burgundy and Barolo in this single-vineyard bottling from vines planted in 1930, but it is unmistakably Etna: smoky and suave.

This wine marries the sunny influence of the south with chewy mountain tannins and a fresh streak of cool stone.

Thierry Germain’s meticulous process coaxes out the delicate and aromatic side of Chenin Blanc—think jasmine, honeysuckle, and peach.

Sun-ripened fruit, sea-mist salinity, and an alluring note of fresh herbs.

A rosé made via ancient methods from ashy soils high on Mount Etna.

Snappy and focused with a savory perfume of wild thyme and sea breeze.

170-year-old own-rooted Rossese Bianco, four days on skins, raised in acacia barrels—a Ligurian heirloom!

Meyer-Fonné’s Dorfburg saturates the senses with heady aromas of rose petal, mouth-filling richness, and tantalizing sweetness

Just five large casks are filled each year of this bright purple, heavenly scented, juicy Côte-de-Brouilly.

March Club Bianco ~ Lean, bracing, and tangy—just what you want when digging into a plate of fried calamari.

February Adventures Club ~ This red is 100% Pineau d’Aunis, an indigenous red grape we hold dear to our collective hearts because of its mystifying aromatics and bright, juicy texture.

La Grave is one of the rare Cahors to consist exclusively of the native Malbec. Without any Merlot to soften it, this Cahors is decidedly old-fashioned.

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

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

A wine of striking finesse that shows off the crunchy red fruit, floral notes, and peppery spice typical of Pinot Noir from Burgundy’s far north.

It is a seafood lover’s dream wine.

Offers an absolutely electric perfume loaded with bright notes of pomegranate, sour cherry, and fresh strawberry, while the palate delivers bracing acidity and a chiseled, chalky finish.

A dense and chiseled Aglianico from old vines at elevation.

Made from nearly hundred-year-old vines, this a great initiation into the world of Thierry’s white wines.

Rada’s dense, minty Cagnulari is a reminder to take Sardinian reds very seriously.