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Domaine Parent 1er Cru de Beaune Les Epenottes 2021
$167.00Add to cartThis is a wine that punches above it’s weight class. Two sisters Catherine and Anne, helm the Domaine and lead with a lot of heart. The resulting wines are delicious and easy to get into. They are made to be enjoyable now, but will develop for the next five years.
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Domaine Parent Bourgogne Rouge Selection Pomone 2020
$66.00Add to cartThis is a wine that punches above it’s weight class. Two sisters Catherine and Anne, helm the Domaine and lead with a lot of heart. The resulting wines are delicious and easy to get into. They are made to be enjoyable now, but will develop for the next five years.
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Domaine Raspail-Ay Gigondas 2021
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Domaine Robert Ampeau et Fils Meursault 2004
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Domaine Rougeot Pommard Clos des Roses 21
$290.00Add to cartThis wine from Rougeot is going to be the delight of your next party. We’d ensure that having dinner, but beyond that anything goes. One of our best paired dinners was bevy of Pommard wines with Szechuan. So grab this mag and go!
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Domaine Rougeot Volnay 1er Les Santenots 2021
$380.00Add to cartRougeot wines are often lithe and light on their feet, this wine happens to be the most structured offering from the producer, and in this size it’s definitely worth putting down for a few extra years.
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Domaine Schoffit Harth Tradition Pinot Gris 2021
$28.00Add to cartThese organic (practicing biodynamic) wines are a thing of beauty. This Riesling comes from the Harth lieux-dit, and is the entry level Riesling from this driven Alsatian producers.
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Domaine Serene Evenstad Reserve 2021
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Domaine Taupenot-Merme Chambolle 1er Cru La Combe d’Orveau 2021
$310.00Add to cartWith land in both the Cote de Nuits and Cote de Beaune, Romain Taupenot and his sister Virginie produce nineteen wines across seventeen appellations. Most of their holdings are premier or grand cru, all enviably placed with old vines. In winemaking they follow in the footsteps of Henri Jayer and focus first on their vineyards and hand harvest, de-stem, and cold soak before a natural fermentation with wild yeasts. The wines are excellent, complex, and terroir-driven.
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Domaine Taupenot-Merme Corton Rognet Grand Cru 2013
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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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Domaine Vincent Dampt Petit Chablis 2023
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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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Doyard Brut Blanc des Blancs Cuvee Vendemiare
$80.00Add to cartThis champagne is not quite like any other; it’s got its bubbly personality, but they are softer bubbles, more nuanced; the wine itself is luscious and gives you more than you might expect at first. The wine asks you to look at champagne differently with a different perspective and opens your eyes to the potential. – David
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Doyard Clos de l’Abbaye 1er Cru Extra Brut 2018
$225.00Add to cartThe Doyard family traces their winemaking roots in Champagne back to 1677 but have been officially making wine under the Doyard label since 1927, and over the years, Yannick Doyard and his son Guillaume have become a beacon for precise, vinous, mineral-etched Champagne in the Côtes des Blancs. The domaine employs organic farming in the vines, with most of the vineyards worked by horse. This wine comes from a Vertus 1er cru and offers aromas of crisp stone fruits, pear, buttered toast, musky peach, and smoke. It’s precise and dry, having been disgorged this year with two grams per liter dosage after 48 months on the lees. It’s medium to full-bodied, pillowy, and precise, with a nicely concentrated core of fruit, racy acids, and a long, chalky finish.
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El Libre Sauv. Blanc 3L
$33.00Add to cartChill this Sauvignon Blanc down for a fun party wine in sustainable packaging.
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Emilio Lambrusco NV 750ml
$21.00Add to cartA soaring Lambrusco that’s an homage to Pavarotti, the first son of Emilia Romagna. A very clean and straightforward Lambrusco with big fruit and earthy nuance.
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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 Alder Springs Trousseau 2023
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Ernest Vineyards Joyce Vineyard Chardonnay 2022
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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.”
-Will
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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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Fabien Jouves Tu Vin Plus Aux Soirees 2023
$21.00Add to cartA Biodynamic wine from a longtime grape farming family in Cahors, the ancestral home of Malbec. Higher elevations allow Jouves to harness a bit more acidity than some of his neighbors, which makes his wines easy and fresh.
