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Domaine Taupenot-Merme Corton Rognet Grand Cru 2019
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Domaine Vigneau-Chevreau Vouvray Brut NV
$24.00Add to cartThe Vigneau family has been working vines across Vouvray for five generations, but under the ministrations of the youngest (and current leaders of the family winery Stephane and Christophe Vigneau-Chevreau converted the vineyards to biodynamic in 1995 and were certified organic in 1999. This dry sparkling Chenin is made using the traditional method and is the perfect introduction to what they do.
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Domaines Ott Chateau de Selle Cotes de Provence Rose 2023
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Dominus Napa Valley Red Wine 2021
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Don Melchor Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
$179.00Add to cartThis is it, the #1 wine of 2024 from Wine Spectator: The Don Melchor Cabernet Sauvignon.99 pts. – James Suckling
18+ – Jancis Robinson98 – Tim Atkin
97 – Vinous MediaEvery year the editors at Wine Spectator taste an enormous amount of wine. This year there were 10,500 entries that were evaluated based on their quality, value, availability, and “x-factor” (the story), and this was the winner.It’s a huge step not just for the winery, but for wines from the southern hemisphere.The beauty of the composition in Don Melchor is the intermingling of the flavors, aromas, and emotions produced by the different parcels of Cabernet Sauvignon.It is bringing together, in a balanced way, the expression of each of the parcels. It is finding the balance that enables the expression of a place, a soil, the Andes Mountains in a single wine.But don’t just take our word for it:“A remarkable effort that channels the finesse of the vintage with rich, muscular edges, offering a base of graphite and cassis notes that gather around elegant layers of dried rosemary and white pepper. The richly textured core of raspberry and plum flavors show precision and just enough acidity to keep things sailing onto the finish around well-integrated tannins and touches of cocoa.” Wine Spectator
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Echeverria Sauvignon Blanc No Es Pituko Orange Valle del Curico 2023
$18.00Add to cartSince 1992 Echeverria has been making wine in Chile´s Valle de Curico in a broad valley between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It’s a near perfect environment for organic agriculture. The wine is made with sustainably farmed estate grown grapes, fermented naturally, with no additions and undergo no intervention. This skin contact Orange wine is big, dry, and tannic with aromas of orange peel, hazelnut and sourdough.
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Enric Soler ‘nun 2022
$115.00Add to cartFor twenty straight years, former Spanish champion sommelier Enric Soler has made wines that read like love letters. They are a public expression that Xarel-lo is worth time, effort, and attention. His zen-like focus on the grape has led to nicknames (The Iron Knight of Xarel-lo) and resounding accolades.
Xarel-lo is typically blended with Parellada and Macabeo in Catalunyan cavas, but in the right hands, it exhibits the balance and structure of the world’s great white wines.
Soler works his grandfather’s 78-year-old Xarel-lo vineyards (Vinyas del Taus) and a younger but more rural vineyard (Espenyalluchs) biodynamically with stunning results. His grandfather’s old bush-trained vines are surrounded by vibrant ground cover and lovingly tended. He waxes poetically about these vines saying that they are like us and that old people and vineyards need special attention and care. While the Espenyalluchs vineyard is younger, it’s easy to see the potential of the clay soils in this remote, high-altitude (400m) corner of Catalunya.
Like his farming, there is elegance, balance, and intention in every step of his winemaking process. He harnesses rich acidity and transforms the firm phenolics of the Xarel-lo grapes into character and structure through minimal but precise cellar treatments.
The resulting wines are concentrated and complex, aromatic with bright herbs and rich citrus, vibrant and energetic but still elegant with the structure to stand up to long cellar aging.
This 78-year-old plot has been farmed biodynamically since 2005 and produces Xarel-lo that, under Soler’s hands, is easily mistaken for excellent white Burgundy. For Nun, the grapes are hand-picked and sorted before being fermented with native yeasts in a blend of old (two-year-old) and new French oak. Aging takes place with zero battonage over eight months. Only 240 cases are produced.
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Enric Soler Xarel-lo Espenyalluchs 2022
$95.00Add to cartFor twenty straight years, former Spanish champion sommelier Enric Soler has made wines that read like love letters. They are a public expression that Xarel-lo is worth time, effort, and attention. His zen-like focus on the grape has led to nicknames (The Iron Knight of Xarel-lo) and resounding accolades.
Xarel-lo is typically blended with Parellada and Macabeo in Catalunyan cavas, but in the right hands, it exhibits the balance and structure of the world’s great white wines.
Soler works his grandfather’s 78-year-old Xarel-lo vineyards (Vinyas del Taus) and a younger but more rural vineyard (Espenyalluchs) biodynamically with stunning results. His grandfather’s old bush-trained vines are surrounded by vibrant ground cover and lovingly tended. He waxes poetically about these vines saying that they are like us and that old people and vineyards need special attention and care. While the Espenyalluchs vineyard is younger, it’s easy to see the potential of the clay soils in this remote, high-altitude (400m) corner of Catalunya.
Like his farming, there is elegance, balance, and intention in every step of his winemaking process. He harnesses rich acidity and transforms the firm phenolics of the Xarel-lo grapes into character and structure through minimal but precise cellar treatments.
This is a tiny, young vine plot (paraje) made up of cuttings from the Nun vineyard, grafted onto old Parellada rootstock over a decade ago, and planted at an altitude of 400m where ripeness is not guaranteed on pure clay. Fermented and aged on the lees for eight months in four and five-year-old French oak barrels.
The wine is energetic, with much of the same herbal quality as the older vine wines, but with a dynamic freshness that can only be attributed to youth, elevation, and cooler climate. Only 240 cases are produced.
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Envinate Taganan Tinto 2022
$67.00Add to cartA revelation from the Canary Islands! Airy yet brooding, this field blend of local varieties is given a hands-off approach & the results are stunning. Elegant & perfumed with dark fruit, Aleppo pepper, mesquite, five spice & so much more! Oxtail soup? Boeuf Bourguignon? Doner kebab? Mushroom Risotto? This wine has you covered.
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Ercole Piemonte Rosato 1 Liter
$23.00Add to cartThis is a fun summery rosé that will be perfect for this weather. It’s a well priced rosé blend of Barbera and Dolcetto with aromatics of fresh cherry, watermelon and a nice savory finish. And even better, it comes in a liter bottle!
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Ernest Vineyards Joyce Vineyard Chardonnay 2022
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Ernest Vineyards Sonoma Coast Chardonnay 2023
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Esperando a los Barbaros Cabernet Franc 2022
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Estate Argyros Assyrtiko Santorini 2022
$50.00Add to cartThe wines of Santorini are exceptional. The picturesque island is one of the most heavily touristed places on earth, but they somehow still maintain an under-the-radar wine region that can compete with the rest of Europe at the highest levels.
Wine has been made on the Cycladic island for around 3,500 years, and in that time, the growers developed special techniques to protect the grapes from the high winds, called the Meltemi, that rip through the island. At many places on the island, you see little woven vine baskets called kouloura, where the few bunches growing on the 100+-year-old vines hang on the inside, safely protected from the wind.
This wine comes from Argyros, one of the leading estates on the island, who calls this their most important bottling as it represents everything they stand for: depth, definition, and concentration.
The vines are over 100 years old and are located in the best vineyard locations on the island: Messaria, Karterados, Pyrgos, Megalochori, and Akrotiri. It is a perfect example of what makes Santorini Assyrtiko so special. It shows purity and raciness without excesses; even better, it can age for at least a decade.
For a little extra credit if you ever visit Santorini or some of the nicer wine bars in Athens (Say hello to everyone at Oinoscent or Heteroclito) keep your eye open for Matthios Argyros’s other project Volcanic Slope Vineyards which only makes one transcendent wine called “Pure.”
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Ettore Germano Herzu Langhe Riesling 2022
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Ettore Germano Rosanna Rose Extra Brut
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Evesham Wood Willamette Pinot Noir 2023
$35.00Add to cartA ripe, clean & creamy Pinot Noir delivering notes of cherry, acacia & Jonagold apple. The body is firm, and the finish is long and elevated.
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Faust Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
$95.00Add to cartFaust Cabernet Sauvignon—a blend crafted primarily from our distinctive Coombsville vineyard estate complemented by fruit from other select vineyards, sets the bar each year for bold, elegantly balanced Napa Valley Cabernet. In 2022, warm temperatures leading into harvest revealed the distinct advantage of sourcing from cooler sites, especially our own cornerstone Faust Estate Vineyard,
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Favia Cab. Sauv Combsville 2019
$279.00Add to cartIf you don’t know Favia let us introduce you. Founded by husband and wife team Annie Favia and Andy Erickson in 2003, this winery has been steadily releasing some of the best (and most ageworthy) Cabernets in the valley.The reason they were able to come right out of the gate making such stellar wine is the pedigree that they bring to the table. She managed vineyards for Abreu and then Colgin, Harlan, and Aurajo while he was assistant winemaker at Harlan and then winemaker at Screaming Eagle among other projects.Sourced from three Coombsville vineyards: Meteor, The Rabbit Hole, and Collinetta. A glass-staining ruby-purple color. Intensely aromatic blackberry and cherry fruits are pure, precise, and layered with fragrant cedarwood notes, white pepper, and dark chocolate. Full-bodied with unctuous and concentrated dark berry fruits that have a satiny quality, framed by velvety fine-grained tannins and gobs of red licorice, aromatic violets, and graphite. So dense and tightly packed and yet so fresh and inviting. A classic Coombsville expression of Cab. -
Felsina Berardenga Chianti Classico 2022 750ml
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Felsina Vin Santo 375ml 2017
$76.00Add to cartThis Chianti Classico wine is embodied by the “mother” (the remains of the previous vintages) being moved from the previous years casks to the next. The Trebbiano, Malvasia, and Sangiovese grapes are carefully dried out before aging. This is one of our favorite sweet wines (a category that needs so much more love) and we think everyone, but especially Italian wine lovers, should try this.
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Ferrando Erbaluce di Caluso 2023
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Fine Disregard Altas Piedras Grenache 2022
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Fine Disregard Chalone Chenin Blanc 2022
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Fine Disregard Los Parajes Carignane 2022
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Flowers Sonoma Coast Chardonnay 2023
$52.00Add to cartOne of the classics of the California Chardonnay camp, the Flowers Chardonnay from Sonoma leans decidedly towards mineral and fresh vs. the big fruit and oak.
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Flowers Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2023
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Foxen Chenin Blanc Ernesto Wickenden Vineyard 2023
$39.00Add to cartFoxen is a legend in Santa Barbara wine country. Founded by Dick Doré and Bill Wathen in the late 70s it wasn’t until the late 80’s that they got their license (the 13th in the region which now is home to over 200). They work with some of the best fruit in the region where winemaker David Whitehair seeks to express the fruit cleanly.
This wine (and all the estate fruit) is an anomaly in the region as Foxen has own-rooted, dry farmed grapes on their estate. The fact that they can do this is quite frankly wild. In a place where pretty much everyone irrigates they don’t have to. The quirks of geography can be a funny thing. This chenin is proof that great wines can come from unlikely corners of the world.
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Foxen Santa Maria Valley Pinot Noir 2021
$50.00Add to cartFoxen is a legend in Santa Barbara wine country. Founded by Dick Doré and Bill Wathen in the late 70s it wasn’t until the late 80’s that they got their license (the 13th in the region which now is home to over 200). They work with some of the best fruit in the region where winemaker David Whitehair seeks to express the fruit cleanly. This fruit comes from the cooler pinot plots of Santa Maria which is closer to the coast than Foxen Canyon. The wine is a delightful pinot with all the hallmarks of fruit that benefits from a big shift between the night and day temperatures, and like all great Santa Barbara wines there’s a distinct tell of salinity.
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Francois Labet Bourgogne Chardonnay 2022
$37.00Add to cartLabet is a fun winemaker who works as a negociant with small properties fruits. This wine is a great little white Burgundy that way overdelivers for the price.
Olivia’s Notes:
-great value! spreads out across the palate in a nice way. fresh stone fruit, would be really nice with a cod situation.
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Francois Labet Bourgogne Pinot Noir Vielles Vignes 2022
$41.00Add to cartThis is a delicious example of a young Burgundy. It’s from a family that works some of the most esteemed vineyards in the region organically and focuses on purity of flavors in the bottle. Francois’s son Edouard has taken over winemaking in recent years and has lightened the wines a bit. The wine is supple, almost taut, but still has a generosity of flavors, especially bright red berries, which grow with exposure to air. Sweet earth and a little white pepper spice glide around the rich core of strawberries and raspberry fruit, all framed by well-integrated tannins that give it a firm but polite grip. This is a sophisticated wine that way over-delivers at its price point.
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Frank Cornelissen Susucaru Rosso 2023
$34.00Add to cartThis rosé made by natural winemaking legend Frank Cornelissen is made according to their longstanding philosophy: skin contact for texture and territorial identity, malolactic fermentation fully finished for density, fluidity and stability, and overall minimal intervention in the cellar. This rosé is heftier than man and could be regarded just as easily a very light red like you might see from the minimal intervention producers of the Jura.
