2019 Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Superiore “Capovolto”La Marca di San Michele
Italy | Le Marche
$27
Producers
Domaine Boillot France | Burgundy | Gevrey-Chambertin
Comtesse de Chérisey
France | Burgundy | Beaune 1er Cru
Without hesitation, this is the best red Burgundy I have tasted this year.
Domaine Follin-Arbelet France | Burgundy | Aloxe-Corton
Clos Canarelli
France | Corsica | Corse Figari
This brooding amphora-aged red is a tribute to ancient Corsican wines, as they were produced in Roman times.
Domaine Follin-Arbelet
France | Burgundy | Romanée-Saint-Vivant
With some age, this will develop into one of the most gorgeous Pinot Noirs to ever grace your glass.
Domaine Robert Chevillon France | Burgundy | Nuits-Saint-Georges
Domaine Taupenot-Merme France | Burgundy | Mazoyères Chambertin
Domaine Taupenot-Merme France | Burgundy | Nuits-Saint-Georges
Domaine Taupenot-Merme France | Burgundy | Corton Rognet
Domaine Boillot France | Burgundy | Gevrey-Chambertin
Domaine Lucien Boillot et Fils
France | Burgundy | Nuits-Saint-Georges
Pinot Noir planted in 1911
Comtesse de Chérisey
France | Burgundy | Blagny
Intensely perfumed with violets, roses, plums, and exotic spices, there is a dreamy, ethereal side to this beauty.
Domaine Robert Chevillon France | Burgundy | Nuits-Saint-Georges
Domaine Robert Chevillon France | Burgundy | Nuits-Saint-Georges
Thierry Germain France | Loire | Saumur Champigny
Domaine Lucien Boillot et Fils France | Burgundy | Gevrey-Chambertin
Domaine Méo-Camuzet
France | Burgundy | Clos de Vougeot
When life gets you down, this wine reminds you that there’s greatness in this world.
Barruol / Lynch France | Northern Rhône | Côte Rôtie
Barruol Lynch
France | Northern Rhône | Côte Rôtie
Power and finesse, with the capacity to evolve for a long time in your cellar.
Domaine Giudicelli
France | Corsica | Patrimonio
Muriel Giudicelli’s Patrimonio rouge is elegant, deep, bursting with ripe black fruits, silky smooth, and offering great length.
Benevelli Piero
Italy | Piedmont | Barolo
A great vintage for extended cellaring. Beautiful, classic Barolo nose. Intense depth. Fresh and complex.
Domaine de Terrebrune
France | Provence | Bandol
February Club Rouge Selection
Domaine Lucien Boillot et Fils France | Burgundy | Pommard
Vignai da Duline
Italy | Friuli | Friuli Colli Orientali
Ultra elegant yet energized, fresh, and juicy. An all-natural wine that’s just easy to love.
Antoine-Marie Arena
France | Corsica | Patrimonio
The only Arena cuvée to see barrel-aging features the domaine’s oldest vines.
Domaine Taupenot-Merme France | Burgundy | Charmes Chambertin
Catherine & Pierre Breton
France | Loire | Bourgueil
This divine red allies the power and finesse one would expect from this great terroir.
Domaine Taupenot-Merme France | Burgundy | Gevrey Chambertin
Domaine Leon Barral
France | Languedoc-Roussillon | Faugères
Earthy blend from old biodynamic vineyards—rustic and soulful.
Tenuta Anfosso Italy | Liguria | Rossese di Dolceacqua
Charles Joguet
France | Loire | Chinon
With floral aromas and fine-grained tannins, it already showcases its charms.
Barruol / Lynch
France | Northern Rhône | Côte Rôtie
A time capsule in the form of Côte Rôtie. This is the old rustic style and reminds us how this Northern Rhône appellation earned its legendary reputation.
Domaine Les Pallières
France | Southern Rhône | Gigondas
The tannins are soft, and the fruit is pure and elegant. Underlying that, though, is something dark and profound.
Domaine Régis Bouvier France | Burgundy | Morey Saint Denis
Charles Joguet
France | Loire | Chinon
Age-worthy red from one of Chinon’s top sites, by a storied domaine.
Tenuta Anfosso
Italy | Liguria | Rossese di Dolceacqua
The 130-year-old vines at Poggio Pini deliver Alessandro Anfosso’s greatest wine: a deep, silken Rossese that marries floral, smoky, and spice elements, culminating in a mouthwatering, stony finish.
Domaine Follin-Arbelet
France | Burgundy | Aloxe-Corton
Filled with notes of gorgeous red fruit and an irresistible stoniness that gives it structure
Benevelli Piero
Italy | Piedmont | Barolo
Right in line with the Benevelli style: smoky fruit, hints of herbs and forest floor, and firm structure.
Clos Canarelli France | Corsica | Corse Figari
Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe
France | Southern Rhône | Châteauneuf-du-Pape
The wine is at once pleasure, richness, depth, and freshness. The body is velvety and not at all aggressive. You smell the stones, the minerality, a smokiness, the magnificent old-vines Grenache fruit.
Domaine Robert Chevillon France | Burgundy | Nuits-Saint-Georges
Guy Breton
France | Beaujolais | Côte de Brouilly
Champagne may be considered the traditional wine for most celebrations, but what could be more spontaneously festive and happiness-inducing than juicy, bright Gamay?
Jean-Claude Marsanne France | Northern Rhône | Saint-Joseph
Mas Champart
France | Languedoc-Roussillon | Saint-Chinian
A Syrah-based blend from rocky limestone vineyards—tremendous value!
Domaine d’Aupilhac
France | Languedoc-Roussillon | Languedoc
Aged for two years in barrel and bottled unfiltered, this soulful Languedoc super-cuvée promises to age just as gracefully as top bottlings from Bandol and the Rhône.
Sesti Italy | Tuscany | Rosso di Montalcino
Domaine Robert Chevillon France | Burgundy | Nuits-Saint-Georges
Domaine d’Aupilhac
France | Languedoc-Roussillon | Languedoc Montpeyroux
Fadat’s bottlings from this terroir have proven to be among the most complex and elegant wines of southern France.
Guido Porro Italy | Piedmont | Barolo
Barruol / Lynch
France | Northern Rhône | Hermitage
Bold and mysterious, with a velvety texture and a certain rusticity.
Ferruccio Carlotto
Italy | Alto Adige | Vigneti delle Dolomiti
Keep it simple with grilled portobellos smothered in balsamic and minced garlic.
Tenuta Anfosso
Italy | Liguria | Rossese di Dolceacqua
The fruit—think cherries and strawberries—is more reserved, with smoke and stones sharing the stage.
Guy Breton
France | Beaujolais | Chiroubles
Bright, juicy and easy to drink, this is the perfect accompaniment to all the holiday snacks and sumptuous meals.
Domaine Follin-Arbelet
France | Burgundy | Corton Grand Cru
A grand cru red that will age gracefully, but is also charming and elegant right now
Domaine d’Aupilhac France | Languedoc-Roussillon | Vin de Pays de Mont Baudile
Guido Porro Italy | Piedmont | Barolo
Guido Porro Italy | Piedmont | Barolo
Podere Campriano Italy | Tuscany | Chianti Classico Riserva
Guido Porro
Italy | Piedmont | Dolcetto d’Alba
Uncomplicated and easy to down, it smells of violets and wild blackberries, and feels soft, plump, and round on the palate.
Domaine Lucien Boillot et Fils
France | Burgundy | Pommard 1er Cru
Powerful, round, and built to last a long, long time.
Castagnoli
Italy | Tuscany | Chianti Classico
Castagnoli enjoys a microclimate of its own, where cool nights favor bright, focused acidity that accentuates this red’s crunchy schist backbone.
Guido Porro Italy | Piedmont | Barolo
Yves Leccia
France | Corsica | Patrimonio
Leccia's earthy, delicious island-mountain wine is fun, accessible and pairs with anything from fish stew to pasta to lounging in the park.
Portelli
Italy | Sicily
Enough vibrance and freshness to drink well on its own, but just enough tannin and acid to be versatile at table.
Domaine Follin-Arbelet
France | Burgundy | Pernand-Vergelesses
This Pernand has a little grip, but plush notes of red fruit and cocoa abound in the glass.
Podere Sante Marie
Italy | Tuscany | Orcia
Expect ripe Sangiovese fruit with a streak of bitter cherry and a pleasant dusting of Tuscan tannin.
Domaine Giacometti
France | Corsica | Patrimonio
Our best value in Patrimonio offers notes of game and herbs over chewy tannins.
Catherine & Pierre Breton
France | Loire | Bourgueil
There isn’t a spot in the world better suited for Cabernet Franc, and their old vines produce the raw material for one of the best reds in the Loire valley.
Domaine du Gros ’Noré
France | Provence | Bandol
Chill and enjoy with Richard Olney’s marinated fennel recipe.
Villa Di Geggiano
Italy | Tuscany | Chianti Classico
Broad-shouldered, with hearty tannin and acidity and a dark, earthy quality to its fruit, it is a lumberjack wine that can cut through anything a Tuscan table can throw its way—wild game and aged cheeses are some of our favorites.
Ludovic Engelvin
France | Languedoc-Roussillon | Gard
Mourvèdre and Grenache from a historic vineyard site give this elegant and profound red, replete with wild herbs, spice, and a chewy, stony tannin.
Château Gombaude-Guillot
France | Bordeaux | Pomerol
The incredible depth, power, and fine but grippingly youthful tannins are text-book Pomerol
Podere Campriano Italy | Tuscany | Chianti Classico
Château Moulin
France | Bordeaux | Fronsac
Made without added sulfur, a transparent reflection of Merlot grown in the limestone and clay of Fronsac
Cantine Valpane
Italy | Piedmont | Barbera del Monferrato
While it can age for a few more years, its rich, juicy fruit and plump texture make it hard to resist today.
Domaine Lucien Boillot et Fils France | Burgundy | Volnay
Mas Champart
France | Languedoc-Roussillon | Saint-Chinian
A Mourvèdre-majority masterpiece, lots of pleasure and even more soul.
Giulia Negri
Italy | Piedmont | Barolo
La Tartufaia is a divinely atmospheric truffle forest in the heart of La Morra where Giulia’s vineyards run parallel. The wines produced here, from clay-rich soil, are textbook examples of classically structured Barolo typical of the area.
Thierry Germain
France | Loire | Saumur-Champigny
Germain’s reds are grand examples of the heights biodynamic wines can achieve.
Thierry Germain France | Loire | Saumur-Champigny
Cuna
Italy | Tuscany
Federico likens it to “the elegance and the levity of a sail blown by the wind on a luminous ocean.”
Giulia Negri
Italy | Piedmont | Barolo
Giulia’s painstaking attention to detail in these sandier-soil parcels, and deliberate choices in the cellar, result in wines with a fine grain, spiced tannins, and a celestial nose of peony and rose petal.
Guido Porro Italy | Piedmont | Langhe
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