2015 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru “Les Chalumaux”Comtesse de Chérisey
France | Burgundy
$120
Producers
Kuentz-Bas France | Alsace | Alsace
Mas Champart
France | Languedoc-Roussillon | Saint-Chinian
Opulent notes of stone fruit balanced by a fresh minerality
Charles Joguet France | Loire | Chinon
Catherine & Pierre Breton France | Loire | Bourgueil
Domaine Maestracci France | Corsica | Calvi
Catherine & Pierre Breton France | Loire | Val de Loire
Domaine Giacometti France | Corsica | Patrimonio
Domaine Ostertag
France | Alsace | Alsace
May ’20 Club Chevalier Selection
Domaine de Reuilly France | Loire | Reuilly
Lambert de Seyssel
France | Savoie and Bugey | Seyssel
This bottle had me Royally fooled into thinking I was enjoying a very pricey, very prestigious, vintage Champagne.
Champalou
France | Loire | Vouvray
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.
Château de Bellevue France | Bordeaux | Bordeaux Blanc
Les Vignes Oubliées France | Languedoc-Roussillon | Terrasses du Larzac
Champalou
France | Loire | Vouvray
A luscious yet mineral match for honey glazed salmon.
Éric Chevalier France | Loire | Vin de Pays du Val de Loire
Henri Perrusset
France | Burgundy | Mâcon Farges
A refreshing white for salt, pepper, and vinegar marinated shrimp.
Nicole Chanrion
France | Beaujolais | Côte-de-Brouilly
Try Gail’s recipe: grilled halibut soaked in yogurt and roasted Indian spices.
Château de Bellevue
France | Bordeaux | Lussac Saint Émilion
Akin to reading a leatherbound literary classic or cozying up in your grandpa’s cashmere sweater, it’s luxurious (shockingly so, at this price) yet an incredibly down-to-earth bottle of wine.
Famille Brunier France | Southern Rhône | Vin de Pays de Vaucluse
A. & M. Quenard
France | Savoie and Bugey | Vin de Savoie
Jacquère takes on an intensely mineral expression in these “soils” of lime-stone scree—rocks that have broken off the mountain over tens of thousands of years of erosion.
Jean Foillard
France | Beaujolais | Beaujolais-Villages
Silky and seductive, with notes of rose petals, red berries, and stones.
Domaine Gramenon France | Southern Rhône | Côtes-du-Rhône
Charles Joguet
France | Loire | Chinon
One of the first rosés Kermit imported, this wine has been consistently delicious for four decades.
Château Thivin France | Beaujolais | Brouilly
André & Michel Quenard
France | Savoie and Bugey | Vin de Savoie
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.
Domaine Chignard
France | Beaujolais | Fleurie
This Fleurie beautifully combines high-toned finesse with a potent depth. Can a wine be delicately intense?
Catherine & Pierre Breton France | Loire | Vouvray
Château Thivin France | Beaujolais | Beaujolais
Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe
France | Southern Rhône | Châteauneuf-du-Pape
This Châteauneuf-du-Pape has all the perfume, plush fruit, and ethereal structure to please right away
Château de Bellevue France | Bordeaux | Lussac Saint Émilion
Domaine Chignard
France | Beaujolais | Juliénas
Gamay planted in 1946
Catherine & Pierre Breton
France | Loire | Bourgeuil
Peppery and bright, earthy and juicy all at once.
Domaine Maestracci
France | Corsica | Calvi
Fresh, salty, and citrusy all at once—an instant crowd pleaser, and one of Corsica’s top value whites.
Domaine Régis Bouvier
France | Burgundy | Bourgogne
Classic Burgundian Pinot Noir aromas and flavors, and a deeply fruited and solid core.
Éric Chevalier
France | Loire | Muscadet Côtes de Grand Lieu
At first, it is streamlined, saline, and full of lemon. Then the granite terroir kicks in...
Clos Sainte Magdeleine
France | Provence
The quintessential Provençal refresher—an uplifting nectar of bright citrus, fresh berry fruit, wild herbs, and salty sea air.
Lambert de Seyssel
France | Savoie and Bugey | Seyssel
From a village in the French Alps with a reputation for floral-scented charmers.
Bernard Baudry France | Loire | Chinon
Château La Roque France | Languedoc-Roussillon | Languedoc Pic Saint Loup
Catherine & Pierre Breton France | Loire
Domaine de Reuilly France | Loire | Reuilly
Frédéric & Daniel Brunier France | Southern Rhône | Ventoux
Les Pallières
France | Southern Rhône | Vin de France
Salty, discreet, and full of brambly fruit and soft citrus notes
André & Michel Quenard
France | Savoie and Bugey | Roussette de Savoie
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.
Domaine de Marquiliani
France | Corsica | Île de Beauté
May Club Chevalier Selection
Domaine d’Aupilhac France | Languedoc-Roussillon | Languedoc Montpeyroux
Domaine Pierre Guillemot France | Burgundy | Bourgogne
Château Fontanès France | Languedoc-Roussillon | Pic Saint-Loup
Domaine Régis Bouvier
France | Burgundy | Bourgogne
Classic Burgundian Pinot Noir aromas and flavors, and a deeply fruited and solid core.
Lionel Faury
France | Northern Rhône | Collines Rhodaniennes
The perfect lively, uncomplicated Syrah you’ll want to have over and over again
Château Graville-Lacoste
France | Bordeaux | Graves
June ’20 Adventures Club Selection
Domaine de Reuilly
France | Loire | Reuilly
Juicy and refreshing with salt, pepper, and vinegar marinated shrimp.
Domaine La Tour Vieille France | Languedoc-Roussillon | Banyuls
Domaine Gallety France | Southern Rhône | Côtes du Vivarais
Château Fontanès France | Languedoc-Roussillon
Domaine d’Aupilhac France | Languedoc-Roussillon
Château d’Epiré
France | Loire | Savennières
September ’20 Club Chevalier Selection
Patrick Bottex
France | Savoie and Bugey | Bugey
This wine is as festive as they come! Pink, bubbly, and softly sweet.
Guy Breton
France | Beaujolais | Beaujolais-Villages
I have matched bottles with grilled pork and veggie kebabs, turkey sandwiches from the deli, spicy buffalo wings, freshly fried fish tacos...
Domaine Savary
France | Burgundy | Chablis
Sleek, crisp, light, and luminous, with a steely, saline finish.
Daniel Chotard
France | Loire | Sancerre
An intense exotic nose lures you in before the minerality channels the lightning energy of this pure Sauvignon Blanc.
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