Day 1: A Piemontese Rosso for Pasta Night

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

Day 3: A distinctly Provençal cuvée lovingly cultivated with the widely forgotten wisdom of yesteryear

Day 4: An Alsatian blanc that vividly captures the conviviality and flavors of harvest

Day 5: A wine that’s as luxurious to drink as putting on a pair of slippers

Cinsault with a touch of Grenache, blended from various terroirs to create a traditional assemblage Languedocien.

A pure Grenache from a north-facing parcel on sandstone soil. Delicate, floral, utterly seductive aromatics; silky texture.

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

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.

Lemon zest, star fruit, wet stone, and white flowers all coat the palate in a bonedry, vitalizing, and immensely enjoyable wine.

Concentration, power, and plenty of flesh on its limestone bones.

An element of luscious, tender fruit that seems to coat the wine’s spinal chord of Kimmeridgian minerals.

My ideal situation is to devour fresh Dungeness crab smothered in garlic butter with lots of herbs sprinkled on top and pair that with intense stoniness, crisp, and racy mineral-driven structured Chablis. Try the Savary Hommage, I am telling you, a perfect match!

We can still enjoy a taste of Ligurian history through this delightfully fresh and aromatic red, made from the indigenous grape Crovino that is grown exclusively by the Ruffinos.

The Gregoletto family bottles this frizzante rendition of Veneto’s indigenous variety, Verdiso, with the secondary fermentation occurring in-bottle and left unfiltered.

A grape native to the Monferrato hills of Piedmont, Grignolino will surprise you; first with its pale garnet color and then with its rather summery nose of peach and blueberry.

It’s a very rare and special wine, best served chilled, that I will be savoring throughout summer and beyond.

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

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

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

Sourced from 170 year old Rossese Bianco vines (the oldest of all our producers!) the Anfosso Bianco is a rare bird to say the least.

From a village in the French Alps with a reputation for floral-scented charmers made from the local grapes.

For this bianco, named after the Sicilian word for trying something new, Massimo Padova resurrected three nearly extinct Sicilian white grape varieties.

Silky and seductive, with notes of rose petals, red berries, and stones.

This cuvée shares the satin texture of all Foillard Morgons, and should age similarly well for those willing and able to wait.

Serious minerality, with earthy stone and plum notes.

Sweet, earthy fruit and sensuous, velvety texture.

This Gigondas rosé is a real pleasure to be around. It’s seasonally versatile and could quite possibly be the most food friendly rosé we carry!

An abundance of violets and velvet, amid a cooling sensation of a cold spring on a hot day.

Intense, ripe peach fruit with distinguished tannins.

A wonderfully dry, fresh, sparkling wine from one of the most beautiful regions of France.

This Jacquère grown on Savoie’s limestone mountainsides may be the crispest beverage to ever grace your palate.

You’ve just found a new everyday white—at only 12% alcohol—well within your budget.

This medium-bodied white evokes peaches, honey, and pine resin. Perfect for winter nights and dishes like hearty, Savoie-inspired fish chowder.

The Quenards have mastered Bergeron, farming on sun-exposed, steep vineyard sites with minimal intervention, coaxing desirable ripeness from the cool climate and stony terroir.

It has often been likened to a cross between Pinot Noir and Syrah: bright, elegant, and floral, with suggestions of wild fruit, blood, and minerals.

Grown on near-vertical limestone scree slopes, Bergeron reaches incredible heights here, yielding a blanc full of character and flavors of peach, tangerine, and pine resin.

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

The wine is bone-dry but offers a wonderful nose of bergamot and honeysuckle, along with a zippy freshness supported by all the Alpine minerality you would expect from fruit grown in stony soils in the Alps.

With notes of mixed black and red fruit and a spine of minerality, Quenard’s Gamay is crunchier, more aromatic, and more succulent than most bottles you’d find in Beaujolais.

If mindfulness were a glass of wine you could sip, this would be it.

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.

You have never tasted Sauvignon quite like this.

Sauvignon Blanc has many incarnations throughout the world, but even in the Loire Valley—the grape’s spiritual home—Pouilly Fumé represents a very distinctive example.

Farmed organically and fermented with native yeasts, it is a delicious and stimulating Loire white that provides guaranteed refreshment and pairs wonderfully with all sorts of salads and seafood.

Reverdy’s trademark is a generous flavor of blossoming flowers channeled over the palate, culminating in a finely etched mineral finish.

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

Consistently one of the Loire’s finest Sauvignon Blancs

Lime blossoms delivered via a lightning bolt of minerally refreshment.

You’ll appreciate the distinctive flavor profile: born from warmer soils, it tastes of ripe, succulent citrus devoid of grassiness, while boasting the same flinty nerve as a good Sancerre.

Crisp and lean with mouthwatering minerality, Nössing’s Riesling is one of great finesse and precision.

A vibrant, crisp, taut, white grown at over 600 meters in granite soil in the very northern part of Italy.

No lack of minerality in this perfumed white from the Italy-Austria border.

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

This Sylvaner, from high in the Dolomites, is a finely channeled mountain breeze, an exercise in textural delicacy that will leave your palate tingling with the sensation of crispy minerals.

August Club Rouge ~ Shows a kinship with the northern Rhône, echoing aromas of black olive and violets.

August Club Bianco ~ This blanc is chiseled and electric and boasts notes of citrus, herbs, and stones that would beautifully complement pan-fried sea bass or shrimp tacos.

August Club Gourmand ~ Made in the méthode traditionnelle with direct-press Cabernet Franc, it is a light, bright, and festive bubbly meant to be drunk cold and often.

August Club Gourmand ~ A superb companion to stews, braised meats, and roasted vegetables.

September Club Rouge ~ 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.

September Club Chevalier ~ A refreshing rosé refreshing whose distinct grape varieties yield a familiar wine with just enough Corsican terroir to set it apart.

September Club Chevalier ~

With intense flavors of blood orange, brambly fruit, licorice, and herbs, Barrosu is perfectly suited to a wide range of meat slow-cooked over coals.

September Club Chevalier ~ A fleshy and savory unfiltered Vermentino from northern Sardinia.

September Club Chevalier ~ I find the Clos du Roy blanc to be quite versatile at my house in Meursault, especially with fowl, pork, and veal.