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Domaine Boris Champy Hautes Cotes du Beaune Montagne 382 2021
$79.00Add to cartThe site for Boris Champy was developed by Didier Montchovet, an early adopters of biodynamics in Burgundy. Today the estate wines are all labeled under Boris Champy and are fully certified.
This wine comes from their Montagne de Cras plot in Nantoux which is at 382 metres altitude and the name of the Montagne de Cras lieu-dit on the label. The pebbly slope has all kinds of life and even a few rare corm trees. The wine itself is aged on the lees in barrique for a year with 25% new oak before resting in stainless. The resulting wine is clean, smooth and full of citrus and honeysuckle with a well-integrated, judicious note of oak. -
Domaine Cheveau Pouilly Fuisse 1er Cru Vers Cras 2023
$64.00Add to cartThese store favorite producers are Chardonnay specialists brought in by our friends over at Rosenthal. The Hameau is grown on clay and spends 14 months on the less to get texture. It’s rich and dense and mineral. We love it.
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Domaine Cheveau Pouilly Fuisse Hameau 2022
$45.00Add to cartThese store favorite producers are Chardonnay specialists brought in by our friends over at Rosenthal. The Hameau is grown on clay and spends 14 months on the less to get texture. It’s rich and dense and mineral. We love it.
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Domaine Clau de Nell Chenin Blanc 2021
$100.00Add to cartThe ability to strike the balance in a wine that combines mouth-filing, pleasurable fruit combined with a brightness that beckons you back to the glass to savor its complexity is achieved by few winemakers. The legacy of attentive farming and gifted wine making live on through Anne-Claude Leflaive’s Clau de Nell.
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Domaine de L’Enclos Chablis 2023
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Domaine de la Tourmaline Muscadet Sevre et Maine Sur Lie 2023
$18.00Add to cartWhile it’s hard to verify, there’s legend that this vineyard in Navineaux is the first place that Melon de Bourgogne (the grape used to make Muscadet) was found. Regardless, this is a delicious example that’s zesty while still maintaining a core of citrus. The sea salt salinity and deep minerality from the Navineaux soils hold this zippy white together.
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Domaine de Sacy Sancerre Blanc 2023
$35.00Add to cartA delicious sustainable Sancerre from a passionate winemaker practicing polyculture in the fields—a longstanding tradition in Sancerre.
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Domaine des Roches Neuves :’Echelier Thiery Germain Saumur 2021
$98.00Add to cartFrom Thierry Germain, a stellar winemaker who takes his viticultural influence from his mentor Charly Foucault of Clos Rougeard, comes this terroir focused Chenin that is razor-sharp and ready for drinking now but could just as easily age for a long time.
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Domaine Doudet Pernand Vergelesses Les Pins Blanc 2020
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Domaine Genot Boulanger Puligny Montrachet Nosroyes 2022
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Domaine Guiberteau 2019 Saumur Blanc Clos des Carmes
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Domaine Guiberteau 2020 Saumur Blanc Breze
$145.00Add to cartOne of the most sought after producers in the Loire. The wines of Domaine Guiberteau are for those really in the know. The legendary Becky Wasserman has this to say about Guiberteau: Romain Guiberteau owns some of the best land in Brézé, and makes dry chenins of punk rock violence, yet of Bach-like logic and profoundness.
This wine from Brézé is one of the peaks of Chenin Blanc. It’s incredibly dry with ripping texture and acid. It’s like watching a linebacker dance ballet.
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Domaine Huet Clos du Bourg Premiere Trie Vouvray Moelleux 2003
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Domaine Jean Francois “The Twelve Rows” Sanford & Benedict Proprietor’s Vineyard Chardonnay Sta. Rita Hills 2020
$150.00Add to cartThe Domaine Jean François Chardonnay is sourced from 12 specifically identified and chosen rows from the T15 block of the Sanford & Benedict Vineyard, and is a wine of extraordinary pedigree. These old own-rooted Chardonnay vines have become, over the past 50 years, rooted in deep, fractured, rocky Monterey Shale, which yields a lovely austere and mineral-driven wine.
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Domaine Latour-Giraud Meursault 2022
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Domaine Leflaive Puligny Montrachet 2018
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Domaine Robert Ampeau et Fils Meursault 2004
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Domaine Rougeot Meursault Sous La Velle 2022
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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 Vincent Dampt Petit Chablis 2023
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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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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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Ernest Vineyards Joyce Vineyard Chardonnay 2022
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Ernest Vineyards Sonoma Coast Chardonnay 2023
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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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Ferrando Erbaluce di Caluso 2023
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Fine Disregard Chalone Chenin Blanc 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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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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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.
