Red Wine - France
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Chateau Beausejour Puisseguin Saint-Emilion Cuvee Speciale 2021
$36.00Add to cartThe Dupuy family has been in Puisseguin since the Middle Ages. Marceau Dupuy, a doctor and politician, bought Chateau Beauséjour in 1934. It is still 40 acres of vineyard planted mostly with Merlot and a bit of Cabernet Franc on the clay and limestone terrain of Saint Emilion. This wine is opulent and has beautiful Bordeaux flavors for a great price.
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Chateau de Chaintres Saumur Champigny Vieilles Vignes 2020
$31.00Add to cartWe love the Loire, it’s the garden of France, and the wines almost across the board retain a beautiful earthiness. While the Tigny family has owned this 17th century chateau since the 1930s it was the addition of cellar master Jean-Philippe Louis that they really stepped up their game, converting the estate to biodynamics, hand picking, and allowing for spontaneous fermentation.
The vines that plunge the deepest into the tuffeau soils of the vineyards range from 50 to 80 years of age. Despite the concentration and structure a sense of freshness permeates this wine—making it “très digeste”. Graceful tannins and an assertive underlying minerality contribute a salty-savory edge to the fruit.
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Chateau de la Bonneliere Chinon Rive Gauche Rouge 2023
$23.00Add to cartFor two generations the Plouzeaus have been working to restore the Château de la Bonneliére and its vines to their original glory. The son, Marc, converted the vineyards to fully organic.
The grapes for this wine come from vines that grow on an ancient riverbed and lend a distinct mineral quality to it.
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Chateau Giscours, Margaux 2016
$120.00Add to cartA third growth that showcases the excellent terroir of Margaux, specifically the deep gravel that helps ripen the Left Bank grapes. Delicious, deep, and has the potential to age.
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Chateau Gruaud Larose 2005
$250.00Add to cartThis wine is in its prime drinking window. Now is the time to discover why we love Bordeaux with a bit of age.
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Chateau Haut Brion Premier Grand Cru Classe Pessac Loegnan 2018
$890.00Add to cartHaut Brion has been revered for centuries as one of the world’s greatest wines. Favored by kings, presidents (Thomas Jefferson was a noted fan), and the upper echelons of the wine industry, it hasn’t lost a step. This is a complex, deeply layered wine that will continue to get better for the next few decades (if not longer).
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Chateau Haut-Segottes Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2020
$45.00Add to cartMme. Meunier, “vigneronne extraordinaire”, is the fourth generation of her family to oversee this estate situated in the heart of the Saint Emilion appellation. Her dedication to her vineyards enables Madame Meunier’s Haut Ségottes to produce exceptional quality year-in and year-out.
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Chateau La Rame Cadillac Rouge La Charmille 2018
$30.00Add to cartChâteau La Rame is among the oldest and most renowned properties in the Sainte Croix du Mont appellation on a hill overlooking the Garonne river. For over a hundred years La Rame has been lauded for the quality of its wine, and today it stands as a testament to the value that can still be found in Bordeaux, even in a time when so many other regions are getting inordinately expensive.
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Chateau La Vieille Cure La Sacristie de la Vieille Cure 2016
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Coutale Clos La Cahors 2020
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Domaine Alain Voge Saint-Joseph Les Cotes 2020
$49.00Add 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 de la Romanee Conti Richebourg 2020
$4,600.00Add to cartWhat can we say about this wine that hasn’t already been said? Domaine de la Romanée Conti is the most highly prized wine on earth. It’s sought by collectors and investors and when a bottle is opened those crowded around are in awe. This bottle has perfect provenance and has been immaculately cellared.
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Domaine de Villaine Rully Rouge 1er Crus Cloux 2021
$156.00Add to cartAubert de Villaine is a reluctant legend. Co-owner of Domaine de la Romanée Conti, one of the judges at the “Tasting of Paris,” and owner of today’s allocations from Domaine de Villaine which is nestled in the Côte Chalonnaise (smack dab between Chassagne-Montrachet and Santenay to the north and Rully and Mercurey to the south), Villaine has spent a life quietly dedicated to excellence in farming and winemaking.Domaine de Villaine has been the perfect vehicle for Aubert to explore his love of winemaking over the past few decades without the international reputation (and prices) of DRC. Today, the domaine is run by Aubert’s nephew Pierre de Benoist, who shares his uncle’s love of organic agriculture and terrior driven winemaking. The wines they make are pure Burgundy and still offer an exceptional value in a category that rarely sees any.This whole cluster Pinot has a slight reductive quality on opening but opens up in to something deeply textured and dense but still elegant. The racy acidity brings out the delicate earthy, floral, and fruity flavors that are there in abundance. Drink now or cellar for the next 10 years. Let it breathe before tasting to get the most out of it.
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Domaine des Lambrays Clos des Lambrays Grand Cru 2013
$489.00Add to cartThe eponymous monopole from storied Burgundy producers Clos de Lambray in its perfect drinking window.
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Domaine des Marechaux Bordeaux Superieur 2020
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Domaine Dubost Moulin-a-Vent en Brenay 2021
$36.00Add to cartPracticing biodynamic gamay from a fourth generation estate—it doesn’t get more classically Beaujolais than this.
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Domaine Faillenc Sainte-Marie Corbieres Rouge
$18.00Add to cartFaillenc Sainte Marie is a small property, with only 16 acres of vineyards stubbornly clinging to the rocky foothills of Mont Alaric. The vineyards are buffeted by two winds, creating an extremely dry climate.
Jean-Baptiste Gibert, son of founders Dominique and Marie-Therese, has now taken command of the domaine and has taken the steps necessary to have the vineyards certified organic. This wine a field blend of Syrah, Grenache and Cinsault. The grapes are fermented together, benefiting from the long maceration period to extract the maximum of flavors and allow them to harmonize before being pressed and aged. This is a wine with enormous character even if it’s a bit rustic, with its charming primal aspect married to a vivacious wild berry symphony of aromas and flavors.
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Domaine Faiveley Nuits Saint Georges Les Montroziers 2021
$113.00Add to cartDomaine Faiveley is a juggernaut in Burgundy, but one who rarely disappoints. The wines are classically styled, ageable, and seek to express terroir. A solidly made wine all around.
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Domaine Rougeot Pommard Clos des Roses 21
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Domaine Rougeot Volnay 1er Les Santenots 2021
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Francois Labet Bourgogne Pinot Noir Vielles Vignes 2022
$41.00Add to cartLabet is a fun winemaker who works as a negociant with small properties fruits. This wine is a great little red Burgundy made from old vines that overdelivers for the price.
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Ghislaine Barthod Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Chatelots 2021
$245.00Add to cartA cult burgundy producer who is the standard bearer for Chambolle-Musigny and offer the distinct pleasure of being able to explore the terroir of a village through a single producers lens.
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Ghislaine Barthod Chambolle-Musigny 2020
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Ghislaine Barthod Chambolle-Musigny 2021
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Hubert Lignier Charmes Chambertin Grand Cru 2021
$660.00Add to cartDomaine Hubert Lignier has a long reputation for producing fine, terroir-focused wines known for their purity, depth, and concentration. This Charmes is one of the most seductive and fragrant wines to drink young in all of Gevery Chambertin. So if you’re looking to drink now this is a good bottle for you. That being said it can easily stand extended aging.
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Hubert Lignier Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2021
$875.00Add to cartThis is an iconic wine, a true standout that spent seven seasons in barrel before release. It should be cellared patiently, unless of course you want to get both and try one now to gauge how long you should lock it away before opening the next bottle.The site’s particular terroir—a few inches of pebble-strewn topsoil above solid limestone rock—yields a wine of unfathomable mineral intensity, with rugged spices and a profound sense of earth framing its flinty, smoke-tinged core. -
Hubert Lignier Morey-St-Denis 1er Cru Vielles Vignes 2021
$342.00Add to cartDomaine Hubert Lignier has a long reputation for producing fine, terroir-focused wines known for their purity, depth, and concentration. There’s a floral elegance with pretty fruit in this village level wine that seems to get better and better every year.
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Jean Foillard Morgon Cote du Py 2022 Magnum
$130.00Add to cartA magnum of truly stellar terroir-driven Beaujolais from the crown estate in Morgon from legendary “Gang of Four” producer Jean Foillard. Foillard treats the site like the Grand Cru-in waiting that it really is.
If all you know is Beaujolais Nouveau, then you’re in for a treat. The wines from the Côte du Py are complex but still exuberant owing to its unique soil composition of granite and the rare blue schist. The wines that come from it are savory, fruity, floral, tannic, and earthy.
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Jerome Chezeaux Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru Montiotes Hautes 2020
$265.00Add to cartA fully ripe wine with no flab. Graceful but still brash and delicious. From these old vines he produces a wine that captures the immense power and complexity in his well situated section of this grand cru site. Wild, gamey, iron driven minerality, and dark fruit are framed by brawny tannins. This is a truly muscular and impenetrable wine that will only get better with time.
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La Croix Ducru-Beaucaillou Saint Julien 2015
$90.00Add to cartThis is the Medoc’s smallest village, and while it has no first growths it has the highest amount of classified estates in the Medoc. The gravels are less deep that Pauillac so are less hefty but still grace. This expression is from one of the oldest estates and has all the delightful notes of the region: cedar, violets, graphite and will definitely benefit from some aging, so this 2015 is just entering its ideal drinking window.
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Leoville Las Cases Grand Vin 2015
$350.00Add to cartLeoville las Cases sits atop the pile of producers in St. Julien, the smallest appellation in the Medoc. The wines are gorgeous Cabernet driven bottles that develop gracefully, and with time become some of the finest wines in Bordeaux.
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Lucien Crochet Sancerre Rouge La Croix du Roy 2018
$43.00Add to cart