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.
Fronholz is a vineyard composed primarily of quartz, and the taste of an Ostertag wine from here is reminiscent of this stone: sleek, transparent, and brilliant.
Terrebrune Rosé is always better after a few years in bottle—we’ve done the work for you with this 2021, which has certainly hit its stride and is drinking beautifully right now.
You’ll want to pair this with a roast chicken or duck, or grilled sausages, when you are in the mood to forego a red with the main course.
A fragrant cuvée full of peach skin, green guava, and passion fruit seeds.
Here is a Riesling that will have you contemplating texture and terroir above anything else.
It’s like Corsican Chablis: pure Vermentinu planted in seashell-encrusted limestone.
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.
At the domaine's highest-elevation site, Mourvèdre's might is gently enveloped by Grenache and Cinsault to yield a Bandol of great finesse.
This exquisite Muscadet is a perfect reflection of where it originates, as if it’s been sculpted by winds off the ocean and infused with hints of sea salt in the air.
Powerful, cellar-worthy dry Chenin aged in chestnut, oak, and acacia.
Devouring a fresh crab and pairing it with this pure, elegant, chalky, earthy (wet stone), and stunning finish is the perfect combo.
2023 Savoie Chignin-Bergeron “Les Roches Blanches”
André & Michel Quenard
France | Savoie, Bugey, Hautes-Alpes
This medium-bodied white evokes peaches, honey, and pine resin. Perfect for winter nights and dishes like hearty, Savoie-inspired fish chowder.
Huguette is a silky, peppery Cabernet Franc from vines over a century in age.
2021 Pouilly-Fuissé 1er Cru “Vers Cras Vieilles Vignes”
Domaine Robert-Denogent
France | Burgundy
Ancient vines, stunning Chardonnay.
This Riesling “Katz,” as we call it, is a beautifully linear and chiseled style of Riesling, fresh and pure.
From the iconic Domaine Tempier, this mineral white wine smells like the Mediterranean.
There is something timeless to La Roque’s Pic Saint Loup, its herbal bouquet and rich, fleshy texture, all free from any hint of modern trappings.
2021 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru “Les Cherbaudes”
Domaine Lucien Boillot et Fils
France | Burgundy
With vibrant fruit and a silky finish, it’s sure to age gracefully while gaining vintage soul in the years to come.
February Club Gourmand ~ Racy, slightly honeyed, exotically perfumed, and loaded with minerality, this wine is an excellent representation of how Chenin reacts to the local conditions.
One of the gems of the Meyer portfolio.
No need to wait for the perfect moment to enjoy a bottle; popping the cork on their Blanc de Blancs is a special occasion unto itself!
Produced exclusively in the 2021 vintage due to low yields, this Bourgogne is made from the terroirs of Bourgogne Côte Chalonnaise La Fortune and La Digoine, Mercurey Les Montots and Santenay Rouge 1er Cru Passetemps.
There is no mistaking it—one taste and you are in Chablis territory: zesty minerality, wet stone, freshness and nervosity.
The Rozeta features the exuberant, inviting perfume and velvety wild fruit we expect from a wine that underwent 100% whole-cluster fermentation.
Consistently great year in and year out. It possesses class, country soul, and more-than-meets-the-eye complexity.
Delicious alongside black cod in miso soy marinade.
This fragrant red from the island’s south echoes the earthy, meaty complexity found in chewy cuts of coppa, lonzu, prisuttu, or figatellu that inevitably surface toward the end of a tasting at Clos Canarelli.
Unique in its combination of honeyed richness and flinty verve. Hard to resist on its own, but you might also try serving it with salty-sweet yakitori or buffalo chicken wings.
Deep, dynamic Grenache feels aptly highlighted by bright and fresh Clairette. Soft and rich, yet still defined.
2014 Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut 1er Cru “Cuvée du Clos Notre Dame”
Veuve Fourny & Fils
France | Champagne
That telltale Fourny freshness and finesse complement a nutty richness that is the result of the terroir, the stellar élevage, and five years’ aging on its lees.
With its aromas of toasted almonds and butterscotch, the resulting bone-dry wine is nothing short of enthralling.
At first, it is streamlined, saline, and full of lemon. Then the granite terroir kicks in...
There are few pleasures like aged Bandol rouge from Tempier.
2021 Savoie Chignin Mondeuse “Voie Royale”
André & Michel Quenard
France | Savoie, Bugey, Hautes-Alpes
The 2021 Voie Royale was aged entirely in foudre, and the result is an utterly distinctive, perfumed, and stony rouge evoking freshly pressed grapes, tart fruit, and violets.
100% Carignan from very old vines with immense depth but the immediate drinkability of a Cru Beaujolais.
A crystal-clear translation of the Kimmeridgian limestone of Chablis—Chardonnay the way it can only taste from these soils.
A complex blend of one part Niellucciu for structure, one part Minustellu for silky tannins, and one part Grenache for a splash of wild blackberry and sunbaked earth, there is both power and elegance.
It is a habit-forming apéritif with or without foie gras.
Limestone, sea breeze, and wildflowers: welcome to Patrimonio.
The imprint of the sun-kissed landscape of the Languedoc is clear, with aromas of honeysuckle and lime zest.
The Champagne that kicked off the feast of the century.
A nod to the island’s rich history of viticulture, the Général is simply a stunning bottle of white wine.
March Club Rouge ~ The 2023 vintage has its trademark elegance, with notes of blackberries, forest, and graphite.
Textbook Sancerre: bright and citrusy, with a clean, stony finish.
2009 Châteauneuf-du-Pape “La Crau” HALF-BOTTLE
Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe
France | Southern Rhône
Just in the mood for a splash of red? A half-bottle of perfectly mature VT will transform the occasion!
Juicy and open-knit, it mirrors the sensation of biting into fleshy slices of white peach, nectarine, and guava.
This is young Pinot at its best: aromatic, expressive, and a true pleasure to drink.
2019 Vin de France Rouge Grolleau/Cabernet Franc “Clandestine”
Grange Saint-Sauveur
France | Loire
A lovely combination of Grolleau Noir and Cabernet Franc, there seems to be a synergistic effect elevating both grapes to create a juicy, spicy, refreshing whole.
La Tourtine perhaps best expresses the paradoxical combination of power and elegance that is a trademark of the Domaine's wines.
Muriel Giudicelli’s Patrimonio rouge is elegant, deep, bursting with ripe black fruits, silky smooth, and offering great length.
Emeline is sourced from the domaine’s favorite bits of their favorite parcels and then long-aged in barrel for a deeper, darker Irancy.
Evoking bright citrus as well as darker citrus—think hints of blood orange—the Vinothèque is among Veuve Fourny’s most elegant Champagnes.
Very pure, with a beautiful noble tannin and excellent finish.
This bears a rich bouquet of wild strawberry, flowers, garrigue, and sweet spices, culminating in a long, stony finale.
More-than-fifty-year-old vines running through limestone and clay produce a wine that offers a creamy and luscious mouthfeel intertwined with a dry, stony minerality.
With plush notes of red fruit and cocoa abounding in the glass, this Pernand punches way above its weight.
Each sip is akin to biting into a piece of fresh-picked fruit, with an earthy minerality and bright acidity augmenting the palate-coating flavors of peach, orange zest, and white flowers.
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Often featuring grand cru fruit, this bottling is arguably the ideal entry point to Boxler’s range of magnificent white wines.
Here is a full-bodied dose of Terrebrune terroir you can enjoy over the next thirty years.
If you’re looking for a Champagne to carry you from apéritif, through the main course, and into dessert, Fourny’s Rosé is the one.
Think classic, spirited Sangiovese with a wilder, slightly darker-fruited, herb-singed character from the ancient seaside maquis-studded limestone.
Clairette—a name which translated means clear and bright. The wine certainly is, and at the same time, lush and nervy.
Beautiful aroma, silky mouthfeel, fresh with old-vine weight, interesting, and downright delicious.
An incredible wine that defines the region by marrying power, earth, finesse, dark fruit, silk, spice, and ageability.
Cap off your holiday feast with a glass of this heavenly Sauternes to experience pure luxury on the palate…
Tasting the bottle, one quickly sees winemaker Cyriaque Rozier’s statement that Malvasia has “acclimated perfectly to the land of La Roque” is not an overstatement.
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.
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Searching for something a bit funky to enliven your jaded palate? Look no further and prepare for an experience like none other.
Thierry’s Saumur Blancs are bone-dry, high-acid, mineral Chenin Blancs that drink like Chablis young and take on weight slowly over time.
A longtime personal favorite for the weeknight go-to blanc, citrusy fresh with just the right hint of salted butter to round it out.
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From clay and limestone vineyards, they are able to obtain remarkable complexity in their Brut, while the texture shows both a creamy richness and an austere minerality.
A rare Jurassian specialty, this dessert wine is made from Chardonnay must and a neutral grape spirit, then aged for five years in barrel.
It has a round mouthfeel, silky and juicier than the Gravières, with a minerality that is more smooth slate than chalk.
Don’t miss this Blanc de Blancs, a powerful yet refined tour de force from one of the region's most consistent and talented growers.
Made in a fruit-forward, supple, easy-drinking style with very little added sulfur.
The Lassalle women craft a pale, elegant rosé Champagne, all about delicacy and lovely, plush fruit.
With floral aromas and fine-grained tannins, it already showcases its charms.
2022 Savoie Chignin Mondeuse “Vieilles Vignes”
André & Michel Quenard
France | Savoie, Bugey, Hautes-Alpes
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.
Biodynamically farmed Roussanne, Clairette, and Marsanne from rocky limestone in Van Gogh's Provence.
More Morey-like than the Charmes, with more muscle and spice. The grandest and longest-aging wine in this collection.
This Chenin Blanc has a tart sweetness, or perhaps a sweet tartness—with neither overbearing—that epitomizes good balance and will have you greedily reaching for your glass.
This blend of 80% Chardonnay and 20% Pinot Noir is a sleek, elegant Champagne that has roundness along with the astonishing freshness and finesse that are characteristic of all Fourny wines.
Late-harvest wines of this quality in Alsace take incredible skill to make. This is a supremely beautiful example of a harmonious, highly successful partnership between man and nature.
Brand is Boxler’s most powerful Riesling
Gorges boasts an incredible texture and tension imparted by decomposed, blue-green igneous rock, seventy-year-old vines, and years-long aging on the lees.
2021 Savoie Arbin Mondeuse “Terres Brunes”
André & Michel Quenard
France | Savoie, Bugey, Hautes-Alpes
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This red conveys loads of juicy, brambly berries with floral and gamey nuances.
he first pour is dominated by the classic petrol notes of aged Riesling, but aromas of honey, beeswax, and golden apple soon emerge.
A gorgeous perfume of honeysuckle meets the nose, and the wine is at once both lush and nervy, comforting and stimulating.
Exceptional Pinot Noir from Sommerberg
Everything you’d expect from a great bottle is present: toasty brioche and baked peaches on the nose, and a color in the glass that’s ever-so-slightly rose-hued.
This mineral blend has an ethereal perfume, reminiscent of blossoming flowers with a hint of fennel.
From noteworthy terroir, Veuve Fourny brings us a clean, chiseled style—Chardonnay married with pure chalk and barrel aging.
David Lavantureux describes it as “direct and pure, full of energy”—a perfectly steely Chablis for oysters-on-the-half-shell.
His Aligoté associates the slicing acidity typical of the variety with the sheer class we have come to expect from a talented vigneron at the top of his game.
Textured, lush, full of aromatic gooseberry and passionfruit—all supported by spiny minerality.
This Beaujolais offers the drinkability of the most effusive Morgons with the frankness of a chiseled Moulin-à-Vent.
2020 Vin de France Rouge Grolleau/Cabernet Franc “Clandestine”
Grange Saint-Sauveur
France | Loire
A lovely combination of Grolleau Noir and Cabernet Franc, there seems to be a synergistic effect elevating both grapes to create a juicy, spicy, refreshing whole.
Elevation and abundant limestone combine to give taut, high-toned wines with delicate floral aromas and stimulating mineral freshness.
The only Arena cuvée to see barrel-aging features the domaine’s oldest vines.
A thoroughbred of pure Grenache, this unbridled rouge is fresh and lithe, teeming with juicy dark fruit and ample goût de terroir.
Brambly and mineral, this bottling exudes both the convivial charm of Gamay and the crunchy intensity of the Côte de Brouilly.
Hailing from a parcel of co-planted vines adjacent to the family home, these varieties were planted together with the express purpose of making the house rouge, the everyday vibrant and juicy drink you’d bring to the table in a jug and drink out of a cup.
Kuentz-Bas vinifies a glorious dry Muscat from grand cru Pfersigberg, an ample and fleshy white scented of ripe citrus, tropical flowers, and exotic fruits.
If you’re like me, a glass of Corsican Muscatellu sparks visions of evening cheese plates laden with Marcona almonds and gemlike fruits.
2023 Vin de France Brut Nature “Elle est pas bulle, la vie?”
Catherine & Pierre Breton
France | Loire
Delicious and honest naturally sparkling Chenin, bottled with no dosage and no sulfur.
Classic Gevrey, with an emphasis on forward fruit and pleasure, great structure as well.
Sleek, crisp, light, and luminous, with a steely, saline finish.
Chez Boxler, Chasselas is fortunate enough to enjoy a privileged position on the granite slopes of Niedermorschwihr. Here, it becomes the reincarnation of a bubbling mountain spring—shockingly thirst-quenching!
It is richly concentrated and yet boasts a lively acidity, while the aromatics will take you for a
ou’ll want to open it alongside richer dishes, or ones that take the longest to make, those that deserve a layered and complex bottling to match.
A classic Charmes, sensual and graceful, with a deep core of concentration.
A biodynamic, orange-zesty, multifaceted masterpiece from the most ancient growing region on the island.
The rose petal perfume of this ravishing Gewurztraminer enveloped the entire table, and was the perfect way to end a perfect meal.
This beauty is brimming and bursting with deep dark flavors of black olive, blackberry and a hint of white pepper.
This dry Chenin Blanc is etched from the white limestone beneath—crystalline, pure, and chiseled.
2021 Chignin-Bergeron “Les Terrasses”
André & Michel Quenard
France | Savoie, Bugey, Hautes-Alpes
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.
Beautiful perfume of orange blossom, very fine with an incredibly soft mousse.
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.
A cold glass hits the spot every single time, bursting over the taste buds with bright citrus, wild strawberry, and a juicy finish.
Sourced from the village of Beaumont, located within the Chinon AOC, it is utterly delicious, with a perfect balance of fruit and earth.
Regal, opulent, and commanding—the finest perfumer in all of France couldn’t craft a more stunning scent.
The complexity and depth of this wine is driven by the 60-80 year old Grenache vines reaching deep down into the clay and limestone soils.
Moulin-à-Vent has a unique, earthy, chewy edge to it that you just can’t find anywhere else.
This is the best way to start a dinner party and nothing says the holidays like rosé bubbles. Please imbibe and enjoy.
This is supple, velvety, seductive Volnay as we love it, and it begs us to dive right in today.
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.
Vintage bottles have more grip and a bit of weight than their blended counterparts and often have their best moments at table.
Shows a kinship with the northern Rhône, echoing aromas of black olive and violets.
There is something timeless to La Roque’s Pic Saint Loup, its herbal bouquet and rich, fleshy texture, all free from any hint of modern trappings.
With beautiful texture and notes of honeysuckle, peaches, and stones, this Pinot Blanc is a masterful display of subtlety and refinement.
Beautiful color, fresh-squeezed citrus and stone-fruit nose, luminous and invigorating while round and luscious at the same time.
It combines the racy acidity and taut mineral structure imparted by the Kimmeridgian limestone terroir with a subtle kiss of oak and a fine wood grain on the finale.
Irresistible notes of black olive, succulent black cherries, and spices
Extremely limited quantities, limit four bottles per order.
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A brooding, wild beast with hints of black fruit and Mediterranean herbs, this is a portal to Catalonia’s stunning seaside vineyards.
This rouge is so silky and aromatic, reminiscent of strawberries and cherries. Open it over the next five years to fully enjoy its bright, fresh character.
A sneakily serious Pinot Noir.
Classy, pure, and precise Chardonnay, evoking freshly crushed apples, crushed stones, and citrus zest.
A triumphant new addition to our Chablis lineup, showing impressive concentration and that irresistibly marine expression of Chablisien Chardonnay.
Lemon zest, star fruit, wet stone, and white flowers all coat the palate in a bonedry, vitalizing, and immensely enjoyable wine.
This mesmerizing Savagnin’s bouquet is so laden with pear, you might think one shimmied into the bottle.
When you smell it, keep in mind that no other wine, besides a Melon de Bourgogne grown in the gabbro soil of Gorges, could possibly smell like this one does.
This bottle reminds me of being young and the delights of discovering something new and delicious. Lush and aromatic, it leaves you smiling like after a special treat.
With this chewy, fragrant cuvée, something garlicky cooked over coals will do just fine.
Limited to vintages where the weather hinders production of individual bottlings, Climat renders all the chart-topping qualities of the Robert family’s Pouilly Fuissé holdings.
Vigneron Pierre de Benoist thinks the Cloux vineyard is arguably the best parcel for Pinot Noir in Rully.
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.
An opulent, mouth-filling expression of granitic terroir, this bottling has the delicate floral nuances and fine-grained tannin that differentiates Fleurie from the other crus.
Solid yet affordable cru burgundy with the structure, concentration, and complexity similar to Gevrey-Chambertin’s wine, as well as the bright fruit and accessibility of its other neighbor, Marsannay.
The Spécial Club represents an elite association of growers who abide by such strict standards of quality. Extremely limited quantities, maximum 3 bottles per purchase.
Ripe and opulent, this is one of the Alibrands’ first-ever single-vineyard dry whites made from 100% Sémillon vinified and raised in oak.
Serve it to friends as an apéritif and listen for wows, because this wine’s perfume provokes wows.
Violets and roses on the nose, and ample volume on the palate, with a Morello cherry freshness.
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.
Vauprin showcases Chardonnay’s ability to produce a wine that is simultaneously both round and taut in this mighty northern Burgundian terroir.
The contrast of ripe, succulent Chenin Blanc fruit with a spike of flinty minerality is like licking honey off an arrowhead.
Peach-scented Bandol rosé is the bee’s knees on a warm summer afternoon.
Pierre’s old-vine Quincy has a mouth-coating texture and charming notes of tangerine that are certain to earn this great appellation the following it deserves.
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.
The Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature is a a staff favorite: bone-dry, elegant, and surprisingly complex.
At once robust, succulent, and elegant, this red offers immediate pleasure and age-worthy promise.
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.
Genuinely reflecting the down-home, country soulfulness we love about the Languedoc.
2021 Châteauneuf-du-Pape “La Crau” MAGNUM
Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe
France | Southern Rhône
It is important to remember the heights that old-vine Grenache can reach when planted on arid, stony plateaus in the shadows of Mount Ventoux.
The Dudenstein bottling, produced only in great years, represents the pinnacle of Boxler’s wine-growing prowess.
Hot stone and white pepper liven up the backbone of this extraordinarily complex, unique white.
2022 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru “Les Corbeaux”
Domaine Lucien Boillot et Fils
France | Burgundy
Of all Boillot’s cuvées, the ones from Gevrey-Chambertin are the most brooding, the most earthbound.
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.
This versatile and refined Corsican blend is my favorite wine to take to dinner. It’s always dressed to impress and pairs well with all kinds of fare.
An electric lightning bolt of Gamay from a steep, windy hillside.
Alex Foillard fashions a Côte-de-Brouilly that strikes a deeper register, saturating the senses with tooth-staining fruit, gritty earth, and just a touch of the good funk.
The perfect combination of tart red fruit, herbaceousness, and graphite earthiness.
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!”
An intense exotic nose lures you in before the minerality channels the lightning energy of this pure Sauvignon Blanc.
From the first taste in barrel, I immediately understood what Antoine wanted to accomplish stylistically, and the results were love at first taste.
This is the grandest bottling of Cabernet Franc from one of Chinon’s most outstanding producers.
If you look closely in cellars throughout Burgundy, you’ll notice many of the greatest domaines continue to uphold this tradition.
March Club Chevalier ~ Savennières is home to some of the greatest terroirs for this grape variety thanks to its soils of schist, sandstone, and blue slate and its proximity to the moderating Loire River.
Bottled without any sulfur whatsoever, here is a seriously playful Cab Franc from the masters of vinous fun.
A rare blend of six premier cru bottlings that balances each parcel’s unique character in a delicate harmony.
This Special Club rosé, made mostly of Pinot Noir with some Chardonnay, evokes bright white raspberries and possesses a fine, frothy bubble.
A fresh, pure entry point to the Rhône’s great reds with aromas and flavors of black cherries, stones, and a hint of black olive.
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.
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.
A blend of two premier cru vineyards, Les Duresses and Les Grands Champs, this bottling has a gorgeous nose with cherry, earthiness, and a faint smokiness.
Chotard has crafted a delicious, complex, and elegant rouge that gives many village Burgundies a run for their money.
There are few finer sites for premier cru Pinot in Burgundy!
A nervy, age-worthy wine; it smells remarkably like top-notch Chablis, but on the palate hints at cool and tropical fruits like melon, lychee, and lime.
Aromas of black fruit, graphite, wild herbs, and game over firm, stony tannins. Saturated with flavors of the Île de Beauté.
Evokes citrus rind, herbs, and sea spray and boasts all of the freshness of a Mediterranean breeze.
A gentle wave of peach, melon, and spring flowers rolls over the palate and lingers long past your last sip.
Extremely limited quantities, limit two bottles per order
These ancient hillside vines yield very little, giving an intensely concentrated juice with great acidity and a textured finish. Open it alongside seafood or as an apéritif.
Bright red fruit, Corsican herbs, and smooth tannins make this a unique, but no less terroir-driven, Patrimonio.
NV Vin de France Chardonnay “La Chaux Passerillé” HALF BOTTLE
François Rousset-Martin
France | Jura
The latest marvel to come out of his cellar is this dessert wine from Chardonnay grapes dried for several months in wood crates, then pressed and aged for five years in barrel.
Lush fruit, stony flavors, and completely dry...you will be thinking twice about why you didn’t buy more!
Ultra fresh and brimming with citrus blossom and orchard fruit notes, it has a saline, mineral finish that leaves my palate begging for more.
At once similarly saline and nutty as vin jaune or sherry, but also singular and standalone in its notes of watermelon flesh and rind.
A nod to the island’s rich history of viticulture, the Général is simply a stunning bottle of white wine.
This blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay is a Champagne of luxury, from its decadent golden tinge to the fine, persistent bead that playfully caresses the palate.
Evaporation over time has concentrated the wine, giving it considerable strength to go with its trademark rancio aromas of walnuts and brine.
Elegance and restraint from one of the hill’s lesser-known terroirs.
This Fleurie beautifully combines high-toned finesse with a potent depth. Can a wine be delicately intense?
Equal parts Grenache, Carignan, and Mourvèdre, this boasts all of Maxime’s trademark elegance and silkiness.
Rabourcé is considered one of the top premiers crus in Rully. Its old vines sit on a steep clay and limestone slope and yield a complex, powerful white Burgundy.
Les Granges is the Baudry cuvée to drink in its youth, while the perfume of rose petals and brambly berries is at its most vivid and vibrant.
While it sports plenty of dark bramble, mulberry, and plum skin, it’s tempered by a fresh bite of blood orange and violet.
Treated with the same care as the domaine’s premiers crus, and will certainly age like one.
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.
This blend of youthful, floral Chardonnay contains just a splash of exotic sous-voile Savagnin.
Extremely limited quantities, limit four bottles per order.
February Club Gourmand ~ Reminiscent of ripe wild blackberries crushed on a hot stone, “Le Vin Coule” is utterly gulpable—give it a light chill and revel in this unique Corsican rouge.
There could be no better way to enjoy this crisp, invigorating Graves than with a platter of fresh seafood.
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One of the first rosés Kermit imported, this wine has been consistently delicious for four decades.
Here is a rich, bold Régnié, saturated with luscious fruit and earthy spice.
Yearning for northern Rhône magic? Here you go. Pull a cork or more and see what I mean.
Vinified with a gentle, terroir-focused touch—few reds will slake your thirst with the ease and finesse of Cuvée Alouettes.
Full-bodied style, golden, old-school Chardonnay with a chalky base.
Artisanal white Bordeaux like you have never tasted before!
As Kermit wrote, “there is always something wild and unpredictable about it, spirited, shall we say, yet it is honest and impeccable, full of warmth and finesse.”
The perfect addition to your holiday season: decadent and lush, full of dense autumnal fruit and Burgundian finesse.
“That wine should be paired with a steak,” said Anthony Lynch when tasting this tête du cuvée from Paul Bara.
Fermented and aged in barrel and bottled unfiltered, it features a delightful kiss of oak on the long, bracing, mouth-watering finish.
With classic notes of sweet spice and quince, it’s great with dessert. An apple-walnut pie? Apricot and frangipane tart?
This is about as quaffable as the region’s rouges get.
A thirst-quenching, spirit-lifting, and downright delicious white Burgundy.
Given light treatment in the cellar, this wine shows off Cabernet in its most delicate, charming form.
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.
Crystalline purity, mouthwatering salinity, and complexity without weight make this akin to an Alpine premier cru.?
Meyer-Fonné’s 2022 has a floral, perfumed nose—perhaps from a splash of Muscat?—and a soft mid-palate with green apple and pear—surely a sign of Pinot Blanc in there.
Old vines in Santenay produced this classy red that can be enjoyed now or cellared for three to five years for additional complexity.
It is pleasantly toasty and slightly nutty, evoking pretty orchard fruit and fresh citrus, with great acidity with a little grip.
With some age, this will develop into one of the most gorgeous Pinot Noirs to ever grace your glass.
Lime blossoms delivered via a lightning bolt of minerally refreshment.
Stony, spicy, and dense, it evokes red berries, watermelon, and garrigue and offers a beautiful accompaniment to a wide range of dishes.
The wine is firmly structured and robust, with dark, plump fruit that tastes fresh and utterly drinkable.
Delicate, ethereal aroma—gently floral. Rose water, citrus zest, blood orange. Round and airy on the palate. Bright, clean, pure. Crisp finish.
It’s hard to imagine this beauty could taste any better than it does now, but I’ll be curious to revisit it in five to ten years.
A classic Charmes, sensual and graceful, with a deep core of concentration.
If you’re a fan of Jura’s vin jaune or fino and manzanilla sherry, find yourself a new friend in this rare bottling from Ludvic Engelvin.
A pure Syrah bottling offering wild flavors of the Provençal countryside gently wrapped in a thick coat of tooth-staining deep purple fruit.
A gentle wave of peach, melon, and spring flowers rolls over the palate and lingers long past your last sip.
Majestically dark and brooding Cornas, layered with aromas of herbs and mint. Extremely limited availability
This bottling is classic Brouilly, balanced and old-school, and showcases the beauty of Gamay.
This thoroughbred wine is sculpted for the cellar but still provides a lot of immediate gratification.
Cinsault raised in concrete egg: all about finesse.
Thierry Germain’s meticulous process coaxes out the delicate and aromatic side of Chenin Blanc—think jasmine, honeysuckle, and peach.
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.
This is the bottle to pop at your next celebratory meal; a white truffle risotto would make an excellent pairing as would ripe soft cheeses.
A delicate, aromatic red in the “drink now!” vein.
Any lover of whites from Chablis or the Loire should try this white made of Gros Manseng, Petit Manseng, and Petit Courbu.
The violets, tapenade, and juicy black fruit in your glass is much unchanged from how it’s always been (and should be).
The incredible depth, power, and fine but grippingly youthful tannins are text-book Pomerol.
With unrivaled versatility at table and guaranteed mouthwatering abilities, Sylvaner brings something new and fresh to the table.
Soaring with aromas of brioche and praline, this lush and luxurious bottling sets the benchmark for Crémants everywhere.
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.
Made from young vine fruit from Grand Cru vineyards, this Riesling delivers delicious fruit, crispness, and minerality beyond its price point.
A relatively new addition to Guy Breton’s Beaujolais lineup, this exuberant Côte de Brouilly is flat-out delicious.
Decadent, rich, stony, and a touch off-dry—hard not to love.
Decadent, rich, stony, and a touch off-dry—hard not to love.
This Tour du Bon rouge, with its juicy nose and bright, crunchy fruit, its mouthwatering acidity and peppery verve, is particularly elegant.
Meyer’s 2020 is lovely stuff—fermented dry, full-bodied in style, it shines at table in a multitude of gastronomic settings with kaleidoscopic range.
The fruit quality is dark and earthbound, like eating blackberries in the shade.
February Club Gourmand ~ If you can’t make it to the south of France this year, here’s a way to bring the Mediterranean sun to you.
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.
Lumpp’s blanc offerings may be small, but they are mighty.
There are few pleasures like aged Bandol rouge from Tempier.
It’s a perfect palate cleanser with refreshing notes of lime granita and tart pineapple.
Clos La Roquète’s blanc is luscious, yet finishes nice and dry with striking acidity.
October Club Rouge ~ Leave it to Breton to take summer heat and turn it into a light summer breeze in a glass.
March Club Bianco ~ Harvested early and fermented in stainless steel tanks to maintain a vibrant quality, balanced by lush notes of flowers, spice, and citrus that will pair well with any number of foods.
Showing off Cabernet in its most delicate, charming form, rife with aromas of roses, damp earth, and little red berries.
With a touch of creaminess following the crisp stone fruit, it’s a Mediterranean white in a cashmere sweater.
This Bouzy-dominant blend of Pinot Noir with 2% still red and 1 gram of dosage is bright, expressive, incisive, and chalky.
Simon refers to Hameau de Reigny as a “nature” wine. The result is textured and tropical-fruited, yet not so much a departure from the region’s typicity, as rather, a riff on it.
Everything that comes from Domaine Albert Boxler seems to have an extra dash of magic, and this debut bottling of Pinot Gris from the grand cru of Florimont is no exception.
Simply gorgeous, the Cris is sublimely perfumed, generous on the palate, and long and saline on the elegant finish.
A red perennially punches way above its weight, both in the immediate pleasure it delivers and the way it evolves in the bottle over time.
A dry sparkler made exclusively from Clairette.
From high-altitude slopes above the Rhône river, this Syrah exhibits remarkable purity and grace.
An abundance of violets and velvet, amid a cooling sensation of a cold spring on a hot day.
This gorgeous blend of Vermentino, Ugni Blanc, Sémillon, and Clairette is both fleshy and mineral-driven.
With some age, this will develop into one of the most gorgeous Pinot Noirs to ever grace your glass.
2022 Châteauneuf-du-Pape “Télégramme”
Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe
France | Southern Rhône
If Télégramme is more about fruit than stones, it is still undeniably Châteauneuf, expressing the nobility of carefully farmed Grenache from the Rhône’s finest terroirs.
A wonderfully dry, fresh, sparkling wine from one of the most beautiful regions of France.
The incredibly complex aromas soar out of the glass with an underpinning note of rose petal, the full-bodied and almost oily texture is classic.
Ethereal and bright, with the notes of cherry and earth that get red-Burgundy lovers’ hearts racing.
Immediately accessible, with the type of ripe, unctuous nose you know and love with grand cru Chablis.
This Fleurie beautifully combines high-toned finesse with a potent depth. Can a wine be delicately intense?
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The Rozeta features the exuberant, inviting perfume and velvety wild fruit we expect from a wine that underwent 100% whole-cluster fermentation.
Delicate, precise, and succulent at the same time, this beautiful blanc will pair well with fresh seafood and light summer salads and pastas.
It simply has it all—refined hazel-nutty, toasty notes, bright acidity, some of the most delicate bubbles ever created, and a finish that lasts and lasts.
A terroir-driven rosé redolent of a Provençal summer with notes of thyme and white peach, and a mouthwateringly salty finish.
This full-bodied rouge, with notes of dark fruit and fragrant garrigue, is built for grilled lamb or pork chops.
Golden ripe Vermentinu berries are responsible for this fleshy, succulent dry white.
Melony, snappy, bright, and clean, this is a delightful everyday white with a refreshingly different flavor profile.
A slightly sweeter style of Gewurztraminer with opulent aromas and flavors to pair with any kind of spicy food.
Silky and perfumed, with no rough edges, this is dangerously swallowable.
Sweet spices conceal an edgy undercurrent, making this Pinot Gris both versatile and alluring.
It has a vivid magenta color, abundant cherry and raspberry fruit, an exotic spice note, and subtle oak.
The fruit recalls savory plums and baked cherries. It almost feels like a cheat: getting to drink a wine with the desirable qualities of long cellaring, but in its immediate, current release.
Elegant aromas and a refined texture characterize this bottling from one of the village’s great vineyards.
This sparkling wine has decadently rich, honeyed fruit and a nice dollop of buttery brioche.
Imagine a red, Grenache-based Sauternes, full of earth and spice, and you’ll have a decent idea how delicious this Banyuls tastes.
It has the nerve and precision of the Définition cuvée along with additional weight and structure.
La Châtelaine highlights what may be the best terroir of Vézelay and why this little appellation is on the map in the first place.
A crystal-clear translation of the Kimmeridgian limestone of Chablis—Chardonnay the way it can only taste from these soils.
One whiff of this might make you want to plunge right into the glass
Valinière is a monumental demonstration of what happens when respectfully working the earth is not just a job, but one’s whole life.
Lightly golden in color, it conjures up a day spent in the sun: seabreezes and ripe honeydew, including its subtle, savory rind.
Imagine if in Alsace, deep beneath the earth, there were a Riesling aquifer...
Rich, exotic, and appealing—a monument to the grandeur of the forgotten Corsican varietals.
This wine has an impressive track record of aging, developing luscious notes of smoke, honey, butterscotch, and marzipan after ten to fifteen years in bottle.
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.
It smells just like the ocean, with a sea-mist freshness to more than satisfy that itch in the back of your throat.
Maybe it’s the biodynamic farming, but these wines always seem to have an extra gear when it comes to aromatics and sheer deliciousness.
Stony and smoky, and full of garrigue and black cherry, it is an epic wine that opens up wonderfully now.
Durban does here what they do best, keeping the focus and precision of the terroir as well as loads of fruit and pleasure.
This blend of 80% Chardonnay and 20% Pinot Noir sees partial barrel aging, partial malolactic fermentation, and two and a half years aging in bottle before release.
Germain’s reds are grand examples of the heights biodynamic wines can achieve.
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.
A generous dash of plump, sun-ripened fruit enveloping a granite core.
Les Abymes is the epitome of an Alpine white—an invigorating mineral lick of Jacquère, crackling with freshness and crystalline purity.
Sourced from the pink granite terroir of Brouilly, this rosé is simply delicious, with good grip and notes of summery red berries.
A black wine made from steep inclines planted to Tannat and some Cabernet Sauvignon, it demands patience while its dense, mouth-coating tannins slowly release their clutching grip.
A vibrant tonic akin to a savory brew of muddled stone, wild herbs, and salty sea air.
This wine showcases everything I seek for in a dry Gewurztraminer. The nose shows pure, delicate aromas of fresh lychee and exotic fruit.
Cool in the mouth, with a whiff of smoke and game, this soulful little country Syrah will do a jig with your pâtés and terrines.
Aromas of black pepper, briny black olive, and violets with the earthiness, herbs, and concentration of southern Rhône Grenache.
Saint-Josephs from André Perret’s northern part of the Rhône are typically more delicate and floral than their brethren further south around Mauves, the birthplace of the appellation.
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.
This deeply garnet stunner, with fine, balanced tannins, made from century old vines, is elegance made liquid.
This wine is full of fresh Grenache fruit, beautifully perfumed, with a refined and elegant finish.
Floral and succulent, bursting with notes of little red berries, but it is also delicate and light on its feet.
Stylistically, Les Clous is in between La Fortune and La Digoine, characterized by medium weight with more red fruits, smooth but present tannins, and distinctive polish.
Fragrant aromas of lavender and garrigue, notes of perfectly ripe black cherries, hints of black olive and stones.
Bargain access to one of Burgundy’s established masters, ready to drink tonight.
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.
Don’t miss this opportunity to experience beautiful, old-school, age-worthy red Burgundy from our newest domaine in the region!
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Exotically perfumed with hints of guava, musk, and clove, it finishes dry and quite flinty.
Filled with notes of gorgeous red fruit and an irresistible stoniness that gives it structure
Pure Pinot Noir from the grand cru of Bouzy, a great terroir that makes its presence felt with a more structured and serious Champagne, built to age
An incredible wine that defines the region by marrying power, earth, finesse, dark fruit, silk, spice, and ageability.
It has all the best of Vézelay: a fresh, floral, citrusy attack, followed by warm and textured charm.
Very smooth, silky, and spicy, a wine obviously influenced by Boxler’s love for Burgundy.
There is a crisp toffee-like nose on this wine that’s a hint reductive but attractive and explosive.
This rouge will stop you in your tracks with its subtle kiss of oak, silky tannins that glide effortlessly across the palate, and notes of freshly crushed bing cherries.
Heimbourg, a very stony, steep limestone terroir in Turckheim, produces a powerful, full-bodied style of Pinot Gris with exceptional aging potential.
The Jurassic limestone soil and high elevation lieu-dit where the name “Montmajou” springs from lend this blanc a lean elegance.
Meyer’s Riesling Réserve is a mélange of different terroirs around his domaine in Katzenthal, and is a precise, dry, minerally Riesling loaded with character.
Equal parts Grenache, Carignan, and Mourvèdre, this boasts all of Maxime’s trademark elegance and silkiness.
It might be the most unusual and most delicious top-quality sweet wine you have ever tried: a pure Chenin Blanc from a special selection of late-harvest grapes in the appellation of Jasnière.
It tastes like the grapes were prompted, gently but insistently, to eke out the pure essence of Syrah. Extremely limited availability.
That grapes can be cajoled and fashioned to make such a liquid is miraculous.
2020 Savoie Chignin-Bergeron “Côteau des Ducs”
André & Michel Quenard
France | Savoie, Bugey, Hautes-Alpes
Lychee and ripe citrus wrapped in beeswax. You might think there are a bunch of busy benevolent bees whiling away inside your glass.
Salinity in spades, fleshed out by summery golden fruit notes, like baked pineapple.
It is a lively, brisk wine, showcasing pristine red fruit and a hint of herbs over a firm foundation of stony acidity.
Leydiers at Domaine de Durban are particularly proud of their Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise, a vin doux naturel, as they are among the last to craft it in the traditional style.
Pure, classy fruit sing tenor without any interference from the earthy bass that often makes itself heard in Bourgogne rouge.
Made without added sulfur, a transparent reflection of Merlot grown in the limestone and clay of Fronsac
Imagine a red straddling the Loire, Médoc, and Madiran with Basque flair and a Pyrenean freshness. You’ll see that Irouléguy is in a world apart.
This is the best way to start a dinner party and nothing says the holidays like rose bubbles. Please imbibe and enjoy.
Fronholz’s vibrant mix of fruit and earth, flesh and structure, is Domaine Ostertag’s hallmark.
You’ll taste the salty sea breeze in this wine.
The premier cru Beauroy is a round, ample expression of Chablis from a south-facing parcel. Silky and suave on the palate, it finishes with a whisper of salinity.
You may find it to be leaner and livelier than the rich, plush Merlots of Pomerol and Saint Emilion
Very fine-boned and ethereal.
The brilliance of this site is its ability to produce sumptuously rich and perfumed Pinot Gris that maintains a vibrant acidity and stony backbone.
If Hermitage were grown in the Provençal Alps...
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.
This Chardonnay delivers an exotic nose of candied lemon and spices, focused acidity and a sensation of beeswax and nuts on the palate.
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.
Redolent of almonds, honey, and a wide range of citrus, this kaleidoscopic Chenin finishes with a faint tannin, making it ideal alongside sushi, roast chicken, or a hard and flavorful cheese like Comté.
Méo-Camuzet’s Vougeot is marked by richness, concentration, velvety structure, broad aromatics, length, and power.
The Spécial Club represents an elite association of growers who abide by such strict standards of quality, and the pedigree is evident with this 2012 release.
This vinegar is particular because it’s made with sweet wine, which confers a very unique taste.
At the domaine's highest-elevation site, Mourvèdre's might is gently enveloped by Grenache and Cinsault to yield a Bandol of great finesse.
Even though all of the wines hail from Chinon, the soil, elevation, and exposition all combine to make Le Clos Guillot their cuvée with the most finesse.
This festive sparkling wine is vinified following the ancient tradition of one of the most gorgeous corners of France, where small hills grow into small mountains on the flanks of the Alps.
The new vintage shows great freshness and brightness, making me think of tart berries picked in the forest just a touch below full ripeness.
Incredible elegance for Pruliers, power and finesse in spades.
This white, raised in demi-muids with malolactic fermentation, flamboyantly shows off the affinity of ripe Vermentinu grapes with a judicious use of wood.
You’ll detect a steely quality on the finish, and the slightest hint of the petrol often associated with Riesling. Delicious!
This vintage might fool you for an oyster wine. Let it!
Charly Thévenet and his father, Jean Paul, now bottle a range of five different wines in their cellars in Villié-Morgon
A lovely apéritif or the ideal match to Mediterranean-inspired antipasti.
Power, finesse, succulence, and striking acidity... Pair with delicate crab meat and relish in the experience.
Evoking bright citrus as well as darker citrus—think hints of blood orange—the Vinothèque is among Veuve Fourny’s most elegant Champagnes.
Previously blended into the domaine’s Sancerre rouge, the Champs d’Alligny is now its own bottling, a successful experiment if there ever was one.
Just different and obscure enough to deliver the thrill of introducing someone to a gorgeous wine that is familiar, but new.
This single-vineyard Pinot Noir is what drinking great Burgundy is all about.
Despite its voluptuousness, the wine is dry, fresh, very stony, and even salty.
More Morey-like than the Charmes, with more muscle and spice. The grandest and longest-aging wine in this collection.
The rose petal perfume of this ravishing Gewurztraminer enveloped the entire table, and was the perfect way to end a perfect meal.
February Club Bianco ~ This chiseled Chenin Blanc comes from 70-year-old vines planted on an ancient limestone slope. Burgundian-like in character from its time spent in barrel, the laser-like acidity will become even more enticing with some age.
A grainy texture and a lightness on its feet that his other more powerful and structured Pinots grown in limestone do not possess.
Try with tender and tangy curry marinated grilled chicken.
Sourced from 110+ year-old vines, this is hands-down one of the best Cab Francs being made in the Loire Valley today.
An abundance of violets and velvet, amid a cooling sensation of a cold spring on a hot day.
A bright, chalky personality full of energy and thirst-quenching savor.
La Sagesse carries the full flavor, succulence, and savoriness we associate with Grenache on a graceful and lively frame.
This dark, autumnal rosé is a beacon of tradition in a sea of paler styles.
Violets and dark berries dominate the palate, with a pleasant wild side lurking below the surface.
Ready to drink tonight, it’s both elegant and eminently quaffable with explosive aromatics.
Bursting with energy and joy, this wine is bound to bring out the best of your inner bon vivant.
I find the Clos du Roy blanc to be quite versatile at my house in Meursault, especially with fowl, pork, and veal.
This is the perfect example of a fine, elegant version of Merlot.
Chardonnay reaches incredible heights in this bottle of Meursault. Each glass is a unique and memorable experience.
Like eating lemon curd at a party that Renoir might have painted—think something like Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette.
De Chérisey produces classic Chardonnay that seems as if from a different time. White Burgundy like this doesn’t come around very often.
Old-vine Pinot Noir blended from several sites across Gevrey-Chambertin provides a textbook rendition of this village.
This Saumur Champigny is electric and alive, from the first scent of roses on the nose to the juxtaposition of textured tannic grip and sheer weightlessness on the palate.
The Férigoules have honed a unique style of Vacqueyras that mixes deep, dark color with a lightness of touch, rusticity with warmth, and minerality with delicious fresh fruit.
Golden, luscious aroma and flavor, a delicious nectar infused with honeysuckle that invites you in at first sniff for a leisurely dip.
March Club Rouge ~ A generous dash of plump, sun-ripened fruit enveloping a granite core.
Decidedly lean in its youth, but with hints of glycerin, apple wax, and resin that will evolve into lavish layers as it ages.
From vines that are more than eighty years old comes this Marsanne with magnificent floral, pit fruit, and bitter notes.
Lush with distinctive minerality and great nerve, this is an exceptional white Bordeaux value.
This Chassagne is razor sharp, pure fruited, and packed with pleasure.
This is what happens when the Languedoc meets the Beaujolais: old Carignan and Cinsault fermented by carbonic maceration to make something light, fresh, and delicious.
Old vines planted just after WWII, spicy and deep, rich and full.
Vintage bottles have more grip and a bit of weight than their blended counterparts and often have their best moments at table. The 2018 Brut Grand Cru from Bara is one such wine.
2021 Vin de France Rosé Grolleau/Cabernet Franc “Les Arceaux”
Grange Saint-Sauveur
France | Loire
Intensely dry and mineral, the structured Les Arceaux is a bottle to pair with a meal rather than to drink as an apéritif.
Fresh and punchy Cabernet Franc from fun-loving Catherine and Pierre Breton. Light, juicy, and ready to go. Drink young, drink chilled, drink plenty.
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.
2021 Savoie Chignin-Bergeron “Le Grand Rebossan”
André & Michel Quenard
France | Savoie, Bugey, Hautes-Alpes
Travel no further than Chignin, where the Quenard family bottles a Roussanne (dubbed Bergeron in these parts) that will exceed your wildest expectations.
The incredible depth, power, and fine but grippingly youthful tannins are text-book Pomerol
After seven years, the 2019 is in its sweet spot, evoking sumptuous fruits like sour plum and fig, which make this cuvée distinctly Provençal.
February Adventures Club ~ Consistently one of the Loire’s finest Sauvignon Blancs
2022 Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Beaune Blanc “Le Mont et Forêt”
Domaine Pierre Guillemot
France | Burgundy
Full of that perky, palate-opening freshness and vigor that’s so essential in a blanc.
Here is a rich, bold Régnié, saturated with luscious fruit and earthy spice.
A single-vineyard bottling whose age lends a soft, drawn butter richness to its bright, tart citrus palate.
This blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay is a Champagne of luxury, from its decadent golden tinge to the fine, persistent bead that playfully caresses the palate.
It is a real-deal northern Rhône roasted-slope Syrah that walks the tightrope perfectly between creamy fruit, meaty tannins, and fresh spine.
This mouthwatering and impeccably balanced Riesling is a testament to the majestic heights Alsace’s grands crus can reach.
Incredible elegance for Pruliers, power and finesse in spades.
I know what you’re thinking: red wine from Champagne? Allow me to respond with a resounding yes!
We aimed for maximum drinkability: plenty of hedonistic purple-tinged fruit, along with a hint of wild herbs and lovely lavender and violet notes.
Vintage bottles have more grip and a bit of weight than their blended counterparts and often have their best moments at table.
Terrebrune Rosé is always better after an extra year in bottle—in magnum it is obligatory.
This divine red allies the power and finesse one would expect from this great terroir.
Earthy, meaty, savory, juicy, and powerful, it is a glassful of joyful, soulful goodness.
Experience Bonifacio, one of Corsica’s historic wine regions, through Canarelli’s epic, age-worthy biancu.
I think I'll replace my Christmas tree with a very large bottle of Champagne. ’Tis the season!
Old vines give this Carignan a supple, suede-like texture, along with loads of dark fruit, a peaty smokiness, and great minerality.
The high-toned nose suggests an absolutely electric wine, full of delicate florals and tart berries, and the juice hits the palate like a dreamy cloud of Gamay.
That grapes can be cajoled and fashioned to make such a liquid is miraculous. This aroma is beyond belief.
Crafted from less than two hectares of organic grapes and vinified in a cramped garage, this is silky Saint-Emilion at its most seductive.
Enter Bruno Colin’s pristine, sacrosanct cellar and you immediately sense that something precious, almost invaluable, dwells within those beautiful limestone walls.
It shows an exotic panoply of sweet aromas—burnt sugar, crème fraîche, roasted pineapple—balanced with an herbal, almost agave-like smokiness.
This bottle gives some of my favorite grand cru Rieslings a run for their money with a nose evoking peach skin and pear and a palate that ripples with fresh acidity.
A stunning value from one of Chablis’ oldest premier cru vineyards, with a lovely mouthful of stone fruit and hint of lemongrass.
This blend of 80% Chardonnay and 20% Pinot Noir is a sleek, elegant Champagne that has roundness along with the astonishing freshness and finesse that are characteristic of all Fourny wines.
Deep, concentrated, and refreshingly saline, this is like great Cornas with Mediterranean influences.
An explosively aromatic Corton, impeccably balanced.
Power, intensity, and complexity combine to bring us a Riesling for the ages.
The oak adds a grain and level of class and backbone that raises this cuvée a step above the domaine’s classic Sancerre bottling.
Dupeuble’s rouge is thirst-quenching and tangy with loads of violet and réglisse.
Given light treatment in the cellar, this wine shows off Cabernet in its most delicate, charming form.
My favorite Riesling in the store, perhaps ever: zesty, minerally, intensely aromatic, and boundlessly deep!
Soulful and slightly wild, but beautifully balanced, this rouge has an irresistible notes of garrigue.
Made from nearly hundred-year-old vines, this a great initiation into the world of Thierry’s white wines.
The result is a pretty, round, and versatile rosé full of notes of red fruit, melon, and rhubarb. It finishes with a subtle herbal note and foodfriendly acidity.
The Lassalle women craft a pale, elegant rosé Champagne, all about delicacy and lovely, plush 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.
Complex aromas, flesh, depth; the classic chiseled back end you’d expect from well-made Puligny.
Sourced from 110+ year-old vines, this is hands-down one of the best Cab Francs being made in the Loire Valley today.
2020 Côtes du Jura Savagnin “Cuvée du Professeur—Sous-Roche”
François Rousset-Martin
France | Jura
A transformative process must have been at work here, with the dynamic freshness of the ouillé, or topped-up style, yet it still displays hints of caramelization and golden savoriness.
This juicy, blueberry-and-leather-infused Syrah with a long finish is ready to drink tonight.
2022 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru “Les Chaignots”
Domaine Robert Chevillon
France | Burgundy
From the Vosne side of the village, the silkiest number in the lineup.
Soulful and slightly wild, but beautifully balanced, this rouge has an irresistible notes of garrigue.
Pure Pinot Meunier from Villers, this impressive bottling shows great freshness and finesse allied with smooth, silky roundness and completed with a long, chalky finish.
The bottling is classic Champagne in every sense: full, well-balanced, and elegant, with a fine mousse, delicious to drink.
February Club Gourmand ~ Félix Meyer’s old-vine Pinot Blanc from the slopes of Katzenthal, in Alsace, has long overdelivered in the role of the proverbial “crisp white” for which we long.
Age-worthy red from one of Chinon’s top sites, by a storied domaine.
Entry-level access to one of the masters of the Côte de Beaune.
A grandiose monument to the power of Corsica’s heirloom grapes.
This unique old-vine bottling from Kuentz-Bas is pure Pinot Auxerrois and boasts honey and orange blossom on the nose for days.
A thirst-quencher with uncommon pedigree.
The vintage, austere and tense in its youth, has matured into the best a perfectly aged Meursault can offer.
See why Cap Corse's famous Muscat tastes like no other dessert wine in the world.
Fine, with bright acid, sleek silkiness, and great length, it is the most elegant of all of Thierry’s red wines.
Bara's grand cru rosé is a staff favorite and best-seller: with its ripe, juicy red fruit, fine bead, and creamy yet lively texture, it is the perfect pairing for anything, everything, or nothing at all.
A complex and thought-provoking dessert wine loaded with notes of dried fruits, herbs, and citrus zest. Pair with the region's famous Comté cheese.
Rochebonne offers Chardonnay fruit that’s both racy and sun-kissed
Pfersig means “peach,” and the wine’s subtle whispers of white peach are adorable, and then the bouquet keeps growing more expansive, more intense, grander.
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.
From the classic aromas of graphite, black fruit, and roasted spice, to the total finesse of its tannins, this is Côte-Rôtie at its best.
A sea-breeze freshness to contrast the fleshy, sun-imbued voluptuousness on the palate.
Dense layers of sea salt and stone are tightly coiled around a small drop of lemon.
Château Thivin’s Côte de Brouilly seamlessly fuses pleasure, class, and intellect.
A Mourvèdre-majority masterpiece, lots of pleasure and even more soul.
A beautiful example of Biancu Gentile, an heirloom white grape revived from near-extinction by Arena in the 1990s.
Germain’s reds are grand examples of the heights biodynamic wines can achieve.
As Kermit wrote, “there is always something wild and unpredictable about it, spirited, shall we say, yet it is honest and impeccable, full of warmth and finesse.”
Muriel Giudicelli’s Patrimonio rouge is elegant, deep, bursting with ripe black fruits, silky smooth, and offering great length.
Insider tip: cellaring some grand cru Chablis from Lavantureux is about as wise a move as you can make in today’s volatile (wine) world.
A relatively new addition to Guy Breton’s Beaujolais lineup, this exuberant Côte de Brouilly is flat-out delicious.
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.
It fills the mouth with suspicions of honeysuckle and pulpy stone fruits, all while maintaining classic notes of iodine and sea breeze that make this the vinous equivalent of tidepooling.
It is a seafood lover’s dream wine.
Divine with lemon and rosemary roasted lamb.
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.
2020 Vin de France Rosé Grolleau/Cabernet Franc “Les Arceaux”
Grange Saint-Sauveur
France | Loire
Intensely dry and mineral, the structured Les Arceaux is a bottle to pair with a meal rather than to drink as an apéritif.
A Corsican red from a rosé specialist.
This racy wine is a perfect match for all types of crustaceans as well all by itself on a sunny afternoon.
Gentle and refreshing on the palate, it boasts a delightful balance of stony minerality with luscious, almost honeyed fruit and flowery notes.
2020 Châteauneuf-du-Pape “La Crau” HALF BOTTLE
Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe
France | Southern Rhône
It’s a gem, and you won’t be disappointed.
Incredible elegance for Pruliers, power and finesse in spades.
Silky and seductive, with notes of rose petals, red berries, and stones.
From an east-facing premier cru parcel on steep slopes, this rich and noble white wine is long, elegant, and refreshing.
Lightly golden in color, it conjures up a day spent in the sun: seabreezes and ripe honeydew, including its subtle, savory rind.
The imprint of the sun-kissed landscape of the Languedoc is clear, with aromas of honeysuckle and lime zest.
This refreshing dessert wine is versatile at table—it works wonders as an apéritif or with cheeses—and can still be cellared for several years.
It’s dense, noble, with grip and grit, the kind of cuvée that could generate a lot of awe and attention... and also a much higher price tag.
The Diplomate is rich, exotic, and appealing—a monument to the grandeur of the forgotten Corsican varietals.
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.
August Club Bianco ~ What about real-deal vanilla aromatics? I’m talking cured Madagascar bourbon seed, lightly crushed, delicate and discreet.
A top site in Condrieu interpreted by one of the appellation’s masters—simply put, one of the greatest expressions of the Viognier grape on earth.
Here is a full-bodied dose of Terrebrune terroir you can enjoy over the next thirty years.
There is nothing overdone in this chiseled, elegant cuvée made from organically grown and pampered Merlot.
It fills the mouth with suspicions of honeysuckle and pulpy stone fruits, all while maintaining classic notes of iodine and sea breeze that make this the vinous equivalent of tidepooling.
You will be surprised how well this dessert wine will pair with toasted almonds, bleu cheese or nice dark chocolate.
Outre Terre is a tiny production of Cabernet Franc fermented in amphora and aged in barrel.
Sparkling Sale Selection, 20% off this month! The Lassalle women tucked this bottling away for seven years, allowing it to slumber on its lees. Well worth the wait, it is a classy and luxurious bottle with a beautiful label to boot.
Luscious and mouth-coating with generous passion fruit and lychee, yet racy at the same time.
This Jacquère grown on Savoie’s limestone mountainsides may be the crispest beverage to ever grace your palate.
Earthy, meaty, savory, juicy, and powerful, it is a glassful of joyful, soulful goodness.
Les Champs Cloux fresh, with good acidity, but also among the domaine’s more robust reds.
Savor it while you can, because your glass will be empty before you know it, leaving you only with the spicy, mineral-laden aftertaste of a bottle that went down way too easily.
This is truly artisanal Sauternes—made by hardworking farmers who are willing to sacrifice quantity for excellence.
The perfect lively, uncomplicated Syrah you’ll want to have over and over again.
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.
The family’s grandest wine, a brooding elixir of satiny fruit, cedar, and graphite.
Sauvignon and a splash of Chardonnay: the epitome of minerally Loire refreshment
This wine shows how understated, finessed, and downright glorious dry Pinot Gris can be in Alsace.
Given its hue and zesty, mouthwatering nature, you might wonder if this “rouge” is more of a rosé.
2021 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru “Les Chaignots”
Domaine Robert Chevillon
France | Burgundy
For all its density and weight, an earthy suggestion of Burgundian terroir still hides within.
Leave it to Breton to take summer heat and turn it into a light summer breeze in a glass.
Planted on a base of chalk, this is a dry, focused Champagne with real class.
The small, sunny Mandelberg cru is already a classic through and through—petrol notes with lush pear, honey, and a tart bite of green apple.
Young vines yield a Cornas that opens up sooner than Clape's flagship cuvée.
Proof that a great site and honest farming are key to genuine, long-lived wines.
If you like rosé Champagne, don’t miss this wine. If you don’t like rosé Champagne, prepare to be converted.
Fruity nose with a hint of black olive; mild yet richly textured with a soft, peppery finish.
A generous wine dominated by ripe black fruit with very supple, approachable tannins.
It has a purity and seamlessness—no angles or edges—and a feeling of weightlessness despite its broad, full-bodied, golden flesh.
Grenache is joined by Syrah and a drop of Mourvèdre to create this delightful everyday red scented with herbes de Provence and ripe black cherry.
Matthieu Baudry captures both youthful fruit and energizing mineral textures with this rosé.
2013 Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut 1er Cru “Cuvée du Clos Notre Dame”
Veuve Fourny & Fils
France | Champagne
That telltale Fourny freshness and finesse complement a nutty richness that is the result of the terroir, the stellar élevage, and five years’ aging on its lees.
This is a universally loved pink bubbly delight of candied strawberries and roses, always true and always exquisite. Icing on the cake is that it’s affordable, too.
Sweet spices conceal an edgy undercurrent, making this Pinot Gris both versatile and alluring.
The Lumpp style is on full display with this beauty: open-knit, fruit-forward, silky, and seductive Pinot Noir beckons.
Vercots is a wine that you can begin enjoying at age three and hold for up to fifteen years.
Already in spectacular harmony, this beauty deserves a bin in every Burgundy collector’s cellar.
2022 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru “Les Vaucrains”
Domaine Robert Chevillon
France | Burgundy
Classic Nuits, the most structured wine in their book, legendary ager.
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.
Some wines deliver well beyond expectations—this is one of them.
It is easy to forget that it isn’t a premier cru
This crisp and succulent vin gris is a guaranteed thirst-quencher.
If, like me, you gravitate toward drier Champagnes with laser focus, then you will love the wines of Veuve Fourny.
Showcasing impressive texture and flavors of citrus, stone fruit, and spring flowers, this offers a great pairing for grilled fish or seared scallops.
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!
This skin-contact wine is redolent of blood orange and hyssop—a perfect apéritif for olives and anchovies.
A fresh, pure entry point to the Rhône’s great reds with aromas and flavors of black cherries, stones, and a hint of black olive.
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.
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.
2023 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc “La Crau”
Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe
France | Southern Rhône
Clairette, an unsung hero of the south, is the main grape here, undoubtedly one of many key elements to this singular wine.
A thick perfume of dry-aged meat, smoke, and violets preface a wine that is powerful, but in perfect proportion.
A fleshy, full-bodied Sancerre with great freshness and the ability to age in bottle for a few years after release.
This blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay is a Champagne of luxury, from its decadent golden tinge to the fine, persistent bead that playfully caresses the palate.
From a small but mighty appellation boasting an impressive soil loaded with fossilized oyster shells. Peachy, finely textured, and pleasantly verdant.
This Bouzy-dominant blend of Pinot Noir with 2% still red and 1 gram of dosage is bright, expressive, incisive, and chalky.
Beautiful perfume of orange blossom, very fine with an incredibly soft mousse.
From the exceedingly fine and elegant nose to the creamy and lacy texture, the overall balance and touch, and its hint of salty freshness, this wine shows how understated, finessed, and downright glorious dry Pinot Gris can be in Alsace.
One of five or six most outstanding dry whites of the Mediterranean rim, vintage after vintage and worth every centime!
This beauty is brimming and bursting with deep dark flavors of black olive, blackberry and a hint of white pepper.
A masterfully made Muscat is an aromatically divine experience.
This brooding amphora-aged red is a tribute to ancient Corsican wines, as they were produced in Roman times.
A textbook Chinon like this merits simple, rustic cuisine such as roast game, baked potatoes, and sautéed porcini mushrooms.
Not quite Rhône-like and not quite Corsican, this has the best of both worlds, with plenty of palate-staining black fruit to boot.
Produced from unfermented Chardonnay must blended with marc (neutral grape spirit), then aged for five years in barrel, it has wild aromatics of dried fruit, spices, and candied citrus zest.
Full of freshness and detailed elegance, with not a hint of rusticity.
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.
No need to wait for the perfect moment to enjoy a bottle; popping the cork on their Blanc de Blancs is a special occasion unto itself!
A perfect apéritif or partner to light, fresh seafood or roasted cauliflower.
The Chotards are some of the lucky few who have Sancerre parcels that are ideal for growing Pinot Noir, and theirs have been planted to Pinot for well over fifty years, so the vines are at full maturity.
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.
Golden ripe Vermentinu berries are responsible for this fleshy, succulent dry white.
Few things are more satisfying as an apéritif than a chilled glass of this Alpine elixir made from 70-year-old vines.
This Pinot Blanc is weightless, sultry, and lengthy as the day is long.
If you don’t recognize Félix Meyer’s touch from the rich aromas of lychee, candied ginger, and rose petals, you will by the time you finish your first glass.
With a delectable combination of fresh fruit and oyster-shell aromatics, this remains Lavantureux’s benchmark for value and typicity.
Aligoté may actually be an even more precise conduit for Burgundian terroir than Chardonnay.
2021 Chassagne-Montrachet Rouge 1er Cru “La Boudriotte”
Domaine Larue
France | Burgundy
Larue’s home turf is Saint-Aubin, but with this Chassagne-Montrachet, the family shows how well it can steward neighboring terroirs too.
2021 Hautes Alpes Blanc “Grains de Clotinaille”
Domaine Les Hauts Lieux
France | Savoie, Bugey, Hautes-Alpes
While it has a crystalline edge, there is a surprising dollop of sun, heft, and deep, creamy notes of white flowers and citrus fruit.
This cuvée is sourced exclusively from the Fongeant lieu-dit, which sits right on the border of the Côte Blonde and Côte Brune, and is renowned for sharing the best of both.
Thierry has perfected the art of coaxing this Cabernet Franc’s soulfulness and elusive finesse into bottle.
Racy and pure, with a full arsenal of fruit and ample style, this is a complete Alsatian Riesling experience.
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There is a rich, toasty complexity from lees aging, which highlights the delicate aromas you’ll find in your glass: honey, nectarine, citrus, and summer flowers.
One of the first rosés Kermit imported, this wine has been consistently delicious for four decades.
This dark, autumnal rosé is a beacon of tradition in a sea of paler styles.
This stellar cuvée features generous flesh enveloping a wiry core, with a flinty edge that leads to a satisfyingly creamy finish.
An element of luscious, tender fruit that seems to coat the wine’s spinal chord of Kimmeridgian minerals.
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.
Lots of herbs and lemon curd precede its dry, racy finish. It’s a mouthwatering, drink-me-now white Burgundy.
Displaying both the oyster shell quality we love about Chablis and the sunny orchard fruit notes that make Bourgogne blancs so delicious.
Power, intensity, and complexity combine to bring us a Riesling for the ages.
Leccia's earthy, delicious island-mountain wine is fun, accessible and pairs with anything from fish stew to pasta to lounging in the park.
Evoking fresh orchard fruit, white flowers, and chalk, Les Margotés is remarkably pure and will continue to age beautifully over 10-15 years.
New to Alsatian wine? This is the perfect place to start.
This rosé Champagne from J. Lassalle is one of my favorite party tricks—festive, unexpectedly blush, and delicious.
Delicate and perfumed, it speaks softly, yet it has so much to say: lilies, bacon fat, spices... it could only be Côte Rôtie.
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Hailing from the rugged and windswept hills of Corbières, which teem with garrigue and olive groves, La Demoiselle delivers a glorious taste of the South.
One of Burgundy’s established masters.
The pinnacle of traditional Côte-Rôtie being produced today.
A grandiose expression of Sciaccarellu worthy of grand cru status.
If you’re like me, a glass of Corsican Muscatellu sparks visions of evening cheese plates laden with Marcona almonds and gemlike fruits.
A single barrel was produced of this delicate, peppery, low-alcohol red from a forgotten grape variety. Serve chilled.
The wine is crisp and fresh and delightfully grapey—a reminder that premier cru Champagne is indeed made from grapes.
Primarily a blend of Marsanne and Viognier, Jamet’s blanc is bright and textured with notes of honey and apricot.
Power and finesse, silken fruit and muscular tannin, and a noticeable, stony, goût de terroir.
Notes of stones, pear, and citrus... Enjoy as a refreshing, mineral apéritif or alongside your favorite fresh seafood.
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.
Peppery and bright, earthy and juicy all at once.
At the domaine's highest-elevation site, Mourvèdre's might is gently enveloped by Grenache and Cinsault to yield a Bandol of great finesse.
The tiny village of Farges-lès-Mâcon is a wonderful terroir for textbook, perfectly opulent, floral Mâconnais.
With classic notes of sweet spice and quince, it’s great with dessert. An apple-walnut pie? Apricot and frangipane tart?
The Cuvée Sarah, an aromatic mix of roasted, smoking herbs with plenty of tannins to chew on, goes down with pleasure and calls for another round (and a grill).
I find the Clos du Roy blanc to be quite versatile at my house in Meursault, especially with fowl, pork, and veal.
Made from vines planted between 1937 and 1976, this cuvée showcases impressive depth and soul.
This whole-grain moutarde is enhanced with the addition of grape must, which gives the must-ard a purple color and a unique sweet, savory, spicy flavor.
Bone-dry on the palate, it features intense, clean aromas with excellent minerality.
Climate, a clay-and-limestone soil, and stainless-steel vinification are the pillars of Valentin’s Galerne blanc, a divine rendition of pure, chiseled Chardonnay.
It is the up-and-coming white Corsican grape, rapidly winning back the reputation it had earned so long ago.
The singularity and beauty of Chenin Blanc really shines with a bit of age, which is what makes this wine so special to enjoy now.