This mouthwatering and impeccably balanced Riesling is a testament to the majestic heights Alsace’s grands crus can reach.
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.
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.
Displaying both the oyster shell quality we love about Chablis and the sunny orchard fruit notes that make Bourgogne blancs so delicious.
Aromas of wildflowers, saffron, beeswax, and Mediterranean herbs. Rich, fleshy, and focused, all at just 12% alcohol.
Like eating lemon curd at a party that Renoir might have painted—think something like Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette.
Lightly golden in color, it conjures up a day spent in the sun: seabreezes and ripe honeydew, including its subtle, savory rind.
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.
Golden ripe Vermentinu berries are responsible for this fleshy, succulent dry white.
Sleek, crisp, light, and luminous, with a steely, saline finish.
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.
June Club Gourmand ~ 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.
One of five or six most outstanding dry whites of the Mediterranean rim, vintage after vintage and worth every centime!
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.
Classy, pure, and precise Chardonnay, evoking freshly crushed apples, crushed stones, and citrus zest.
With beautiful texture and notes of honeysuckle, peaches, and stones, this Pinot Blanc is a masterful display of subtlety and refinement.
A lovely apéritif or the ideal match to Mediterranean-inspired antipasti.
Delicious alongside black cod in miso soy marinade.
Showcasing impressive texture and flavors of citrus, stone fruit, and spring flowers, this offers a great pairing for grilled fish or seared scallops.
Entry-level access to one of the masters of the Côte de Beaune.
Evokes citrus rind, herbs, and sea spray and boasts all of the freshness of a Mediterranean breeze.
There is no mistaking it—one taste and you are in Chablis territory: zesty minerality, wet stone, freshness and nervosity.
My favorite Riesling in the store, perhaps ever: zesty, minerally, intensely aromatic, and boundlessly deep!
A fleshy, full-bodied Sancerre with great freshness and the ability to age in bottle for a few years after release.
A rare blend of six premier cru bottlings that balances each parcel’s unique character in a delicate harmony.
Aligoté may actually be an even more precise conduit for Burgundian terroir than Chardonnay.
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.
You’ll taste the salty sea breeze in this wine.
This wine is deep and textural, with serious presence on the palate and a dry, flinty finish.
Often featuring grand cru fruit, this bottling is arguably the ideal entry point to Boxler’s range of magnificent white wines.
Bursting with energy and joy, this wine is bound to bring out the best of your inner bon vivant.
A bright, chalky personality full of energy and thirst-quenching savor.
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.
This stellar cuvée features generous flesh enveloping a wiry core, with a flinty edge that leads to a satisfyingly creamy finish.
Clos La Roquète’s blanc is luscious, yet finishes nice and dry with striking acidity.
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.
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.
When I asked winemaker Lorenzo Mocchiutti why he only bottles this wine in magnum, he said it is because it is so delicious a regular-size bottle is just not enough.
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.
A longtime personal favorite for the weeknight go-to blanc, citrusy fresh with just the right hint of salted butter to round it out.
A crystal-clear translation of the Kimmeridgian limestone of Chablis—Chardonnay the way it can only taste from these soils.
Racy and pure, with a full arsenal of fruit and ample style, this is a complete Alsatian Riesling experience.
Full-bodied style, golden, old-school Chardonnay with a chalky base.
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.
De Chérisey produces classic Chardonnay that seems as if from a different time. White Burgundy like this doesn’t come around very often.
Lots of herbs and lemon curd precede its dry, racy finish. It’s a mouthwatering, drink-me-now white Burgundy.
Searching for something a bit funky to enliven your jaded palate? Look no further and prepare for an experience like none other.
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!”
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 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.
The unique blend of Favorita, Moscato, Arneis, and Chardonnay is dry but not tart, fruity but not cloying, and held together with a gentle effervescence.
Chardonnay reaches incredible heights in this bottle of Meursault. Each glass is a unique and memorable experience.
Limestone, sea breeze, and wildflowers: welcome to Patrimonio.
Imagine if in Alsace, deep beneath the earth, there were a Riesling aquifer...
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.
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.
Lemon zest, star fruit, wet stone, and white flowers all coat the palate in a bonedry, vitalizing, and immensely enjoyable wine.
Juicy and open-knit, it mirrors the sensation of biting into fleshy slices of white peach, nectarine, and guava.
With a nose of gunflint and suave Marsanne fruit, it has length and finesse; extremely limited availability
The tiny village of Farges-lès-Mâcon is a wonderful terroir for textbook, perfectly opulent, floral Mâconnais.
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.
Decadent, rich, stony, and a touch off-dry—hard not to love.
At first, it is streamlined, saline, and full of lemon. Then the granite terroir kicks in...
Sometimes you just need a straightforward, delicious bottle of white wine to satisfy your thirst and brighten your meal. This is it.
Experience Bonifacio, one of Corsica’s historic wine regions, through Canarelli’s epic, age-worthy biancu.
A reserve bottling made from Kante's best barrels of citrusy, salt-kissed Malvasia. Aged eight years before release, the wine is textured, vibrant, and delightfully decadent.
There is a crisp toffee-like nose on this wine that’s a hint reductive but attractive and explosive.
Supremely crisp and mineral, this is an ideal representation of this coastal region and perfect for seafood.
This dreamy wine reaffirms that we should turn more often to Piedmont not only for our reds but also for our whites!
Decidedly lean in its youth, but with hints of glycerin, apple wax, and resin that will evolve into lavish layers as it ages.
This Pinot Blanc is weightless, sultry, and lengthy as the day is long.
2023 Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Superiore “Capovolto”
La Marca di San Michele
Italy | Le Marche
It’s both inviting––it makes for a lovely apéritif––and angular, prime to accompany lemony pasta dishes, clams, or flavorful and rich vegetarian lasagnas.
From vines that are more than eighty years old comes this Marsanne with magnificent floral, pit fruit, and bitter notes.
A cornucopia of aroma and flavor
A slightly sweeter style of Gewurztraminer with opulent aromas and flavors to pair with any kind of spicy food.
Rochebonne offers Chardonnay fruit that’s both racy and sun-kissed
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.
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.
Lush fruit, stony flavors, and completely dry...you will be thinking twice about why you didn’t buy more!
That grapes can be cajoled and fashioned to make such a liquid is miraculous.
Fronholz’s vibrant mix of fruit and earth, flesh and structure, is Domaine Ostertag’s hallmark.
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.
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.
Devouring a fresh crab and pairing it with this pure, elegant, chalky, earthy (wet stone), and stunning finish is the perfect combo.
Heimbourg, a very stony, steep limestone terroir in Turckheim, produces a powerful, full-bodied style of Pinot Gris with exceptional aging potential.
David Lavantureux describes it as “direct and pure, full of energy”—a perfectly steely Chablis for oysters-on-the-half-shell.
170-year-old own-rooted Rossese Bianco, four days on skins, raised in acacia barrels—a Ligurian heirloom!
A perfectly mature wine from one of Meursault’s historic domaines
This wine shows how understated, finessed, and downright glorious dry Pinot Gris can be in Alsace.
Consistently one of the Loire’s finest Sauvignon Blancs
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.
Sun-ripened fruit, sea-mist salinity, and an alluring note of fresh herbs.
The vintage, austere and tense in its youth, has matured into the best a perfectly aged Meursault can offer.
It is pleasantly toasty and slightly nutty, evoking pretty orchard fruit and fresh citrus, with great acidity with a little grip.
Here is a Riesling that will have you contemplating texture and terroir above anything else.
Serve it to friends as an apéritif and listen for wows, because this wine’s perfume provokes wows.
This low-alcohol, youthful bianco has a subtle, chalky texture you might find in much pricier French Chablis.
Lumpp’s blanc offerings may be small, but they are mighty.
Ultra fresh and brimming with citrus blossom and orchard fruit notes, it has a saline, mineral finish that leaves my palate begging for more.
Who could resist such a heavenly ambrosia, with its scent of kaleidoscopic spring wildflowers, fragrant citrus blossoms, and succulently ripe grapes?
From an east-facing premier cru parcel on steep slopes, this rich and noble white wine is long, elegant, and refreshing.
Despite its voluptuousness, the wine is dry, fresh, very stony, and even salty.
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.
The interplay of salinity, bitters, and a waxy richness tug at the palate in every direction, providing a textural experience you’ll particularly appreciate at table.
Evoking fresh orchard fruit, white flowers, and chalk, Les Margotés is remarkably pure and will continue to age beautifully over 10-15 years.
June Club Gourmand ~ The uncommon location and treatment capture a different face of this very familiar variety, deep and mouth-filling yet carrying a bracing jolt of limey acidity.
This Chardonnay delivers an exotic nose of candied lemon and spices, focused acidity and a sensation of beeswax and nuts on the palate.
From the flowers on the nose to the fruit on the palate, and on through the succulent finish, it’s simply a joy to drink.
Ripe and opulent, this is one of the Alibrands’ first-ever single-vineyard dry whites made from 100% Sémillon vinified and raised in oak.
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.
Powerful, cellar-worthy dry Chenin aged in chestnut, oak, and acacia.
A lovely apéritif or the ideal match to Mediterranean-inspired antipasti.
This wine showcases everything I seek for in a dry Gewurztraminer. The nose shows pure, delicate aromas of fresh lychee and exotic fruit.
May Chevalier ~ A blend of Ugni blanc, Claudette, Marsanne, and Sauvignon blanc, here is the wine to enhance seafood and shellfish.
An element of luscious, tender fruit that seems to coat the wine’s spinal chord of Kimmeridgian minerals.
2021 Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Riserva “Passolento”
La Marca di San Michele
Italy | Le Marche
A luscious Verdicchio with layered textures that white Burgundy lovers chase after.
Complex aromas, flesh, depth; the classic chiseled back end you’d expect from well-made Puligny.
It smells just like the ocean, with a sea-mist freshness to more than satisfy that itch in the back of your throat.
Old-vine Moscato from Sardinian mountaintops. It is heavenly with sea urchin pasta.
Hailing from the northern edge of Piedmont, at the foot of the Alps, this gorgeous bottle courses with energy and bursts open with notes of citrus, pear, white flowers, and a faintly saline finish.
170-year-old own-rooted Rossese Bianco, four days on skins, raised in acacia barrels—a Ligurian heirloom!
2023 Collines Rhodaniennes Viognier “Les Ruisseaux”
Domaine Jean-Claude Marsanne
France | Northern Rhône
Amid the lush fruit runs a delicate current of minerality that lingers on the tongue, as if the wine cascaded down a granite slope on its way into your glass.
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.
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.
This unique old-vine bottling from Kuentz-Bas is pure Pinot Auxerrois and boasts honey and orange blossom on the nose for days.
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.
This is a perfectly mature vintage from one of Burgundy’s mythical domaines.
Sweet spices conceal an edgy undercurrent, making this Pinot Gris both versatile and alluring.
With a touch of creaminess following the crisp stone fruit, it’s a Mediterranean white in a cashmere sweater.
A relatively rare beast, Serge’s blanc is a ripe, honey-infused cornucopia of fruit.
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!
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.
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.
I find the Clos du Roy blanc to be quite versatile at my house in Meursault, especially with fowl, pork, and veal.
Les Abymes is the epitome of an Alpine white—an invigorating mineral lick of Jacquère, crackling with freshness and crystalline purity.
One of the gems of the Meyer portfolio.
Clairette—a name which translated means clear and bright. The wine certainly is, and at the same time, lush and nervy.
With a delectable combination of fresh fruit and oyster-shell aromatics, this remains Lavantureux’s benchmark for value and typicity.
Sweet spices conceal an edgy undercurrent, making this Pinot Gris both versatile and alluring.
A textured and luscious dry white with the ravishing perfume of citrus blossoms and a real “wow” factor, this is a masterpiece from the maestro of the Aeolians.
Charly Thévenet and his father, Jean Paul, now bottle a range of five different wines in their cellars in Villié-Morgon
Top-notch, organically farmed premier cru Chablis.
A fleshy and savory unfiltered Vermentino from northern Sardinia.
The rose petal perfume of this ravishing Gewurztraminer enveloped the entire table, and was the perfect way to end a perfect meal.
This Riesling “Katz,” as we call it, is a beautifully linear and chiseled style of Riesling, fresh and pure.
Old-vine Moscato from Sardinian mountaintops, 4 days on skins, fermented dry and aged in barrel—heavenly with sea urchin pasta
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.
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.
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.
I would say that Faury does not make Viognier, but rather one hell of a Condrieu, replete with huge apricot and peach aromas and a fresh, regal palate.
A nod to the island’s rich history of viticulture, the Général is simply a stunning bottle of white wine.
Open this alongside a bowl of fennel taralli, the donut-shaped Puglian cracker that has become my go-to aperitivo snack.
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.
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.
You’ll detect a steely quality on the finish, and the slightest hint of the petrol often associated with Riesling. Delicious!
Extremely limited quantities, limit four bottles per order.
A single-vineyard bottling whose age lends a soft, drawn butter richness to its bright, tart citrus palate.
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.
A stunning value from one of Chablis’ oldest premier cru vineyards, with a lovely mouthful of stone fruit and hint of lemongrass.
It has a purity and seamlessness—no angles or edges—and a feeling of weightlessness despite its broad, full-bodied, golden flesh.
June Club Gourmand ~ New to Alsatian wine? This is the perfect place to start.
Decadent, rich, stony, and a touch off-dry—hard not to love.
This thoroughbred wine is sculpted for the cellar but still provides a lot of immediate gratification.
Artisanal white Bordeaux like you have never tasted before!
Regal, opulent, and commanding—the finest perfumer in all of France couldn’t craft a more stunning scent.
Crafted from the local variety Minutolo, Pástini’s Rampone preserves lip-smacking acidity and low alcohol despite the baking-hot Puglian summers
Both generous and chiseled, it evokes orchard fruit, citrus, and has an irresistibly saline finish.
A thirst-quenching, spirit-lifting, and downright delicious white Burgundy.
A nod to the island’s rich history of viticulture, the Général is simply a stunning bottle of white wine.
La Châtelaine highlights what may be the best terroir of Vézelay and why this little appellation is on the map in the first place.
This Jacquère grown on Savoie’s limestone mountainsides may be the crispest beverage to ever grace your palate.
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.
First class depth and complexity on par with village level White Burgundy, but with a Friulian slant. Zingy adicity with citrus and apple notes.
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.
This blend of youthful, floral Chardonnay contains just a splash of exotic sous-voile Savagnin.
This mesmerizing Savagnin’s bouquet is so laden with pear, you might think one shimmied into the bottle.
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.
This low-alcohol Etna white shows subtly smoky aroma complemented by notes of yellow fruit, herbs, and wild broom.
Elegant aromas and a refined texture characterize this bottling from one of the village’s great vineyards.
Old-vine Moscato from Sardinian mountaintops, 4 days on skins, fermented dry and aged in barrel—heavenly with sea urchin pasta
This Sylvaner, from high in the Dolomites, is a finely channeled mountain breeze, an exercise in textural delicacy that will leave your palate tingling with the sensation of crispy minerals.
André Perret crafts white wines of mesmerizing texture, density, and vibrant flavors of stone fruit, jasmine, tropical fruit, orange zest, and so much more.
Rich, exotic, and appealing—a monument to the grandeur of the forgotten Corsican varietals.
A one-of-a-kind, high-altitude, fully dry Moscato. Bright fruit and granitic minerality in an utterly thirst-quenching package.
Extremely limited quantities, maximum one bottle per purchase.
Four months of skin contact leaves this Garganega from Vignato Davide bursting with fragrant clementine and almond blossoms, while volcanic soil imparts lingering salinity.
With unrivaled versatility at table and guaranteed mouthwatering abilities, Sylvaner brings something new and fresh to the table.
Notes of stones, pear, and citrus... Enjoy as a refreshing, mineral apéritif or alongside your favorite fresh seafood.
A bargain introduction to Alsace features, vinified dry for versatile everyday pleasure.
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.
A triumphant new addition to our Chablis lineup, showing impressive concentration and that irresistibly marine expression of Chablisien Chardonnay.
Burgundian-like in character from its time spent in barrel, the laser-like acidity will become even more enticing with some age.
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.
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.
Crisp and lean with mouthwatering minerality, Nössing’s Riesling is one of great finesse and precision.
This vintage might fool you for an oyster wine. Let it!
Bone-dry on the palate, it features intense, clean aromas with excellent minerality.
Golden, luscious aroma and flavor, a delicious nectar infused with honeysuckle that invites you in at first sniff for a leisurely dip.
It has a round mouthfeel, silky and juicier than the Gravières, with a minerality that is more smooth slate than chalk.
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.
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.
It has the nerve and precision of the Définition cuvée along with additional weight and structure.
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.
Any lover of whites from Chablis or the Loire should try this white made of Gros Manseng, Petit Manseng, and Petit Courbu.
A single-vineyard bottling whose age lends a soft, drawn butter richness to its bright, tart citrus 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.
Vauprin showcases Chardonnay’s ability to produce a wine that is simultaneously both round and taut in this mighty northern Burgundian terroir.
It shows an exotic panoply of sweet aromas—burnt sugar, crème fraîche, roasted pineapple—balanced with an herbal, almost agave-like smokiness.
A delightfully crisp seaside quaffer that transports us to the Mediterranean coast with bright, lemony freshness and sea-breeze salinity.
A gorgeous perfume of honeysuckle meets the nose, and the wine is at once both lush and nervy, comforting and stimulating.
Thierry Germain’s meticulous process coaxes out the delicate and aromatic side of Chenin Blanc—think jasmine, honeysuckle, and peach.
he first pour is dominated by the classic petrol notes of aged Riesling, but aromas of honey, beeswax, and golden apple soon emerge.
Just different and obscure enough to deliver the thrill of introducing someone to a gorgeous wine that is familiar, but new.
Enter Bruno Colin’s pristine, sacrosanct cellar and you immediately sense that something precious, almost invaluable, dwells within those beautiful limestone walls.
If you’re like me, a glass of Corsican Muscatellu sparks visions of evening cheese plates laden with Marcona almonds and gemlike fruits.
This white, raised in demi-muids with malolactic fermentation, flamboyantly shows off the affinity of ripe Vermentinu grapes with a judicious use of wood.
Thierry’s Saumur Blancs are bone-dry, high-acid, mineral Chenin Blancs that drink like Chablis young and take on weight slowly over time.
It might be the most unusual and most delicious top-quality sweet wine you have ever tried.
Extremely limited quantities, limit four bottles per order.
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.
Lime blossoms delivered via a lightning bolt of minerally refreshment.
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.
Few things are more satisfying as an apéritif than a chilled glass of this Alpine elixir made from 70-year-old vines.
Dense layers of sea salt and stone are tightly coiled around a small drop of lemon.
This gives it a mesmerizing, Meursault-like tension between fuller body and almost creamy texture on one hand and high-acid, citrusy flavors on the other.
Melony, snappy, bright, and clean, this is a delightful everyday white with a refreshingly different flavor profile.
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.
The Jurassic limestone soil and high elevation lieu-dit where the name “Montmajou” springs from lend this blanc a lean elegance.
A field blend of Vermentino and other native Sardinian grapes, one week maceration; deep, broad, savory, and salty
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.
Do not miss this outstanding, value-driven Chardonnay from one of our most beloved French domaines.
Racy, slightly honeyed, exotically perfumed, and loaded with minerality, this wine is an excellent representation of how Chenin reacts to the local conditions.
Beautiful aroma, silky mouthfeel, fresh with old-vine weight, interesting, and downright delicious.
June Club Gourmand ~ Sauvignon and a splash of Chardonnay: the epitome of minerally Loire refreshment
Power, intensity, and complexity combine to bring us a Riesling for the ages.
Golden ripe Vermentinu berries are responsible for this fleshy, succulent dry white.
No lack of minerality in this perfumed white from the Italy-Austria border.
This Corsican delight is fully dry, aromatic, and playful with notes of lychee, citrus blossom, pomelo fruit, and a touch of sea breeze.
Crystalline purity, mouthwatering salinity, and complexity without weight make this akin to an Alpine premier cru.?
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.
Its ravishing perfume of miel du maquis, wildflowers, and resinous herbs could come only from Corsica.
A field blend of Vermentino and other native Sardinian grapes, one week maceration; deep, broad, savory, and salty
This old-vine Carricante gets its luxurious golden hue from four days of skin contact, a traditional process on Etna that really brings out the distinctive scents of this special place.
This gorgeous blend of Vermentino, Ugni Blanc, Sémillon, and Clairette is both fleshy and mineral-driven.
Brand is Boxler’s most powerful Riesling
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.
This dry Chenin Blanc is etched from the white limestone beneath—crystalline, pure, and chiseled.
Fermented and aged in barrel and bottled unfiltered, it features a delightful kiss of oak on the long, bracing, mouth-watering finish.
Biodynamically farmed Roussanne, Clairette, and Marsanne from rocky limestone in Van Gogh's Provence.
Aromas of wildflowers, saffron, beeswax, and Mediterranean herbs. Rich, fleshy, and focused, all at just 12% alcohol.
A masterfully made Muscat is an aromatically divine experience.
August Club Bianco ~ What about real-deal vanilla aromatics? I’m talking cured Madagascar bourbon seed, lightly crushed, delicate and discreet.
Luscious and mouth-coating with generous passion fruit and lychee, yet racy at the same time.
A fragrant cuvée full of peach skin, green guava, and passion fruit seeds.
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.
The rose petal perfume of this ravishing Gewurztraminer enveloped the entire table, and was the perfect way to end a perfect meal.
Made from young vine fruit from Grand Cru vineyards, this Riesling delivers delicious fruit, crispness, and minerality beyond its price point.
Textured, lush, full of aromatic gooseberry and passionfruit—all supported by spiny minerality.
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.
The Diplomate is rich, exotic, and appealing—a monument to the grandeur of the forgotten Corsican varietals.
A beautiful example of Biancu Gentile, an heirloom white grape revived from near-extinction by Arena in the 1990s.
Power, finesse, succulence, and striking acidity... Pair with delicate crab meat and relish in the experience.
Sumptuous, yet bone dry with a stony finish. It’s just easy to love.
2021 Pouilly-Fuissé 1er Cru “Vers Cras Vieilles Vignes”
Domaine Robert-Denogent
France | Burgundy
Ancient vines, stunning Chardonnay.
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.
That grapes can be cajoled and fashioned to make such a liquid is miraculous. This aroma is beyond belief.
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.
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.
This skin-contact wine is redolent of blood orange and hyssop—a perfect apéritif for olives and anchovies.
June Club Bianco ~ From the flowers on the nose to the fruit on the palate, and on through the succulent finish, it’s simply a joy to drink.
It’s a perfect palate cleanser with refreshing notes of lime granita and tart pineapple.
I find the Clos du Roy blanc to be quite versatile at my house in Meursault, especially with fowl, pork, and veal.
Lightly golden in color, it conjures up a day spent in the sun: seabreezes and ripe honeydew, including its subtle, savory rind.
This refreshing blend of Chardonnay and Viognier brings aromas of fresh sun-kissed peaches and cleansing rainwater.
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.
It is the up-and-coming white Corsican grape, rapidly winning back the reputation it had earned so long ago.