Giulia’s most high-toned wine, offering delicate florals and tart berry fruit with laser-like precision. It is a racy and perfumed Barolo for those who appreciate wines of great finesse.

Sometimes you just need a straightforward, delicious bottle of white wine to satisfy your thirst and brighten your meal. This is it.

Crafted from less than two hectares of organic grapes and vinified in a cramped garage, this is silky Saint-Emilion at its most seductive.

Ever the racy and mineral cuvée, this is all silk and flesh, and a rare village treat from a producer of mainly premier and grand cru wines.

December Club Gourmand ~ An absolute live wire of a white grown at high elevation in the shadow of jagged Dolomite peaks.

Serve it with a slight chill, and you’ll have a satisfyingly fresh red with medium fruit and a light dusting of herbs and tannin.

Crafted from the local variety Minutolo, Pástini’s Rampone preserves lip-smacking acidity and low alcohol despite the baking-hot Puglian summers

A subtly floral nose and textured mouthfeel seal the deal. This is off-the-charts Muscadet.

This rosé, made entirely of the local grape Carcajolu-Neru, is world class and different from anything else we import in the pink category.

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

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

There are few finer sites for premier cru Pinot in Burgundy!

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

This Beaujolais offers the drinkability of the most effusive Morgons with the frankness of a chiseled Moulin-à-Vent.

Bargain access to one of Burgundy’s established masters, ready to drink tonight.

There is a crisp toffee-like nose on this wine that’s a hint reductive but attractive and explosive.

This red, made from the local Montepulciano grape, is aged in tank and bottle to refine its pleasantly rustic personality.

Day 2: A remote Alpine blanc for jaded palates seeking new thrills

Lately you may have noticed a rise in freshness, a burst in aromatics, and a softness of texture in La Roque’s wines.

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

At once robust, succulent, and elegant, this red offers immediate pleasure and age-worthy promise.

This pure Cannonau from Sardinia has reached the ranks of the world’s elite rosés.

Most of this blanc was aged in tank to preserve freshness, but the little bit that was aged in oak provides a glimmer of opulence.

Power, intensity, and complexity combine to bring us a Riesling for the ages.

This drinks like a Gamay infusion with lovely hints of potpourri, spice, and fresh grapes.

The Follin family’s reds are some of the most delicious I have tasted, none more so than their incredibly vibrant and pure Aloxe-Corton.

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

Lots of herbs and lemon curd precede its dry, racy finish. It’s a mouthwatering, drink-me-now white Burgundy.

Decidedly lean in its youth, but with hints of glycerin, apple wax, and resin that will evolve into lavish layers as it ages.

Thierry has perfected the art of coaxing this Cabernet Franc’s soulfulness and elusive finesse into bottle.

This juicy, blueberry-and-leather-infused Syrah with a long finish is ready to drink tonight.

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

Made from young vine fruit from Grand Cru vineyards, this Riesling delivers delicious fruit, crispness, and minerality beyond its price point.

Always a standout, it is lithe, racy, and elegant, while not lacking the stony backbone for which great Greve is known.

A slightly sweeter style of Gewurztraminer with opulent aromas and flavors to pair with any kind of spicy food.

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

Exquisite Italian Alpine character that could come from nowhere else in the world—one of Italy’s most beguiling hidden gems.

Just different and obscure enough to deliver the thrill of introducing someone to a gorgeous wine that is familiar, but new.

All the care, attentiveness, and backbreaking labor required to farm this site result in one of the most joyful and lighthearted reds you will encounter.

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

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

Ripe and opulent, this is one of the Alibrands’ first-ever single-vineyard dry whites made from 100% Sémillon vinified and raised in oak.

Produced from unfermented Chardonnay must and a neutral grape spirit, then aged for five years in barrel, it has wild aromatics of dried fruit, spices, and candied citrus zest.

We look forward to their oil every year for copious use with beans, pastas, ragùs, soups, and greens.

If you’re searching for young, drinkable Bordeaux, the tiny appellation of Pomerol on the southern right bank of the Gironde River deserves a closer look.

Given light treatment in the cellar, this wine shows off Cabernet in its most delicate, charming form.

From the first taste in barrel, I immediately understood what Antoine wanted to accomplish stylistically, and the results were love at first taste.

One of Sicily’s most coveted oils, perfumed with bright citrus, dried fruit, and herbs.

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.

The newest addition to the Thévenets’ Morgons, La Roche Pilée is lush and light at the same time, with a balance of soft minerality referenced in the name (which means crushed rock).

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

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

Juicy and open-knit, it mirrors the sensation of biting into fleshy slices of white peach, nectarine, and guava.

This crisp and succulent vin gris is a guaranteed thirst-quencher.

This full-bodied rouge, with notes of dark fruit and fragrant garrigue, is built for grilled lamb or pork chops.

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.

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!

Old vines, partial barrel aging, and a stylish presentation topped with a yellow wax seal have made this cuvée a KLWM staff favorite for decades.

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.

Prime placement in a great vineyard site provides exquisite balance, gentle tannin, and notes of brambly fruit.

For this perennially over-delivering cuvée, Bruno Laboucarié blends two parts Carignan with one part Grenache and a splash of Syrah to produce a vibrant country red reminiscent of black cherries and spice.

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