Sampler Includes:

2024 Saint-Chinian Rouge “Cebenna” • Les Eminades $29
This stylish cuvée of mostly Grenache captures France’s Mediterranean in all its fragrant glory. Though people often call Languedoc reds “soulful,” Patricia and Luc Bettoni have managed to produce a red that is almost breezy: notes of silky berries and bright rhubarb that follow with clean minerality.

2024 Gigondas • Domaine de Durban $34
The high elevation and limestone content of the rocky soils are key ingredients to the Leydiers’ Gigondas, which is characterized by crunchy wild fruit, mouthwatering salinity, and vigorous energy. It has a nice backbone, which means it will age well, but also a dynamic freshness that makes it so satisfying to uncork in its tender youth.

2021 Côtes du Vivarais Rouge • Domaine Gallety $34
With its gorgeous and lifted aromas of black pepper, briny black olive, and violets, the nose is all northern Rhône. When you take a sip, though, the freshness and elegance of Syrah are intermingled with the earthiness, herbs, and concentration of southern Rhône Grenache.

2023 Côtes-du-Rhône “La Sagesse” • Domaine Gramenon $47
You rarely find this kind of full flavor, succulence, and savoriness on such a graceful and lively frame. Biodynamic farming and 70-year-old vines are no doubt two factors behind the finesse on display, but it also might just come down to the fact that the Laurents are some of France’s winemaking geniuses.

2023 Vacqueyras Rouge “Doucinello” • Domaine Le Sang des Cailloux $42
Named for proprietor Serge Férigoule’s daughter, this red effectively showcases that fresh wine doesn’t just mean fresh fruit notes. The flavors are mostly deep and dark—stones, licorice, black olive, and blackberry—but the frame is elegant, yielding a mesmerizing yin and yang.

2023 Châteauneuf-du-Pape “Piedlong” • Famille Brunier $84
Blending mostly Grenache from Châteauneuf’s highest elevation with Mourvèdre from the sandy lieu-dit of Pignan, the Bruniers have produced a Châteauneuf-du-Pape with uncharacteristic finesse and immediate pleasure.

Normally $270.00
SPECIAL SAMPLER PRICE $199.00
(a 25% discount)