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Boissy & Delaygue Lou Pontias Côtes-du-Rhône 2021
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Domaine Alain Voge Saint-Joseph Les Cotes 2021
$65.00Add to cartAlain is a legend in the Rhône. He rewrote the rule book on what great wines from southern France could be. Today led Alberic Mazoyer (who worked for Chapoutier) who still makes incredibly dense and layered wines using organic and biodynamic viticulture. This wine comes from a steep parcel of land in Mauves that has produced a delicious Syrah that has all the layers of fruit, spice, and flowers you could want.
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Domaine Alary L’Estevenas Cairanne Blanc 2022
$23.00Add to cartA very cool family run domaine with centuries of history. The Alary’s have actually been in the shop to pour, and we loved getting to meet them. Their organically made wines are delicious and really out drink their price point. This blend of Clairette and Roussanne is very expressive with a beautiful complexity, ripe white fruit such as (peaches, mirabelle plums) and delicate fragrance of white flowers such as acacia and lime appear as well as minerality.
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Domaine JL Chave Hermitage Blanc 2020
$365.00Add to cartChave is a consummate storyteller, but he is particualrly bullish about this vintage of whites in how strongly they show the terroir. Some of Chave’s oldest vines are here and bring in beautiful grapes from Hermitage hill. This is the glory that Marsanne can bring when treated by a master. It will rival some of the great white burgundies when drank young or with 10+ years of age.
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Domaine Les Aphillanthes Cotes du Rhone Tradition 2021
$18.00Add to cartA biodynamic value stunner from sites near-by Gigondas. They have a smattering of wines that are all delicious, but we find that even at $18 the entry level is a fantastic buy.
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Vieux Telegraphe Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge 2021
$145.00Add to cartAccording to importer Kermit Lynch, “One cannot think of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, the most celebrated cru of the southern Rhône, without thinking of Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe.” The Brunier family has farmed the La Crau plateau for over a hundred years to make their iconic grenache forward wines.
The wines of Vieux Telegraphe are classic, displaying strength, rusticity, earthiness, and tremendous longevity like a great Chateauneuf should. The blend of old-vine fruit from La Crau, imparts incredible depth, concentration, and fresh minerality. Their goal, which they uniformly achieve, is to find a harmony between aromatic complexity, tannic structure, and richness. A stupendous wine.
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Yann Chave Crozes-Hermitage Classique 2021
$39.00Add to cartA classic northern Rhone Syrah made from organic grapes that drinks above its price point.
This cuvée is a blend of the estate’s parcels in the villages of La Roche de Glun, Mercurol and Pont de l’Isère. From this broad palette of Syrah terroirs, the wine they made is a marker of the vintage in the appellation: fruit forward, bright, and elegant.
