White Wine
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Chateau Soucherie Anjou Blanc 2022
$27.00Add to cartThis wine comes from one of the most beautiful Chateau in all of France. Roger Beguinot’s Chateau Soucherie which is being guided towards 100% organic viticulture by Beguinot’s assistant, the maitre de chai, is the young Thibaud Boudignon who favors “agriculture integrée”. This cuvée is vinified from 100% Chenin Blancsourced from the vineyard site “Les Rangs de Long” which is on the northern part of the estate but with south-southeastern exposure.
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Chateau Talbot Caillou Bordeaux Blanc 2019
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Clement et Florian Berthier Coteaux du Giennois Sauvignon Blanc 2023
$27.00Add to cartFirst and foremost the Berthiers are terroir-driven winemakers. While they make plenty of Sauvignon Blanc, their focus is not on producing easy SB, but on producing wines that transparently show where they are from. Luckily, with that kind of focus they end up producing incredible Sauvignon Blanc that is, in fact, terroir driven.
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Clos des Rocs, Macon-Loche en pres Foret 2023
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Cooper Mountain Vineyards Pinot Gris 2022
$24.00Add to cartThis wine is fresh like a spring morning. It’s in that Goldilocks zone of not too sweet and not too dry but full of flavor–and comes at a great price point.
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Daniel-Etienne Defaix Chablis 1er Cru Vaillons 2010
$96.00Add to cartThis is a fascinating wine. Most people’s conception of Chablis is that it should be drunk young, preferably with oysters, but this wine provides an aged counter-point. It has a nutty and almost sherry-like nose that you would think is prematurely oxidized, but the palate is so fresh it’s like sucking on an electric lemon.
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Daniel-Etienne Defaix Chablis Vielles Vignes 2021
$51.00Add to cartThis Chablis is a delight to drink. It’s everything we like in a young Chablis: crisp, elegant, textured, and possessing a hidden, stony depth that teases itself out across your palate. These wines can age if you have the patience and fortitude to not drink them.
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Decoy Sauvignon Blanc 2023
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DeLille Cellars Chaleur Blanc Columbia Valley 2022
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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 Bitouzet-Prieur Meursault 2021
$99.00Add to cartBen and I were lucky enough to attend a tasting of the Bitouzet-Prieur portfolio with Neal Rosenthal who was hosting Vincent Bitouzet who was on his first trip to the US. Some special bottles were opened including a stellar birth year bottle directly from Neal’s cellar.
What we love about these wines is that they are so thoughtful. Wines to sit down with and really enjoy.
-Will
Les Corbins is located north of the village of Meursault on the way to Volnay, just underneath the premier cru Les Plures. The 3+ decade old vines come from family holdings and the grapes are aged for 16 months in 20% new barrels. Call it a textbook Meursault where intense minerality is combined with a subtle texture and buttercream note, and plenty of acid-driven tension as per the Bitouzet house style.
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Domaine Boris Champy Hautes Cotes du Beaune Montagne 382 2020
$70.00Add 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 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 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 Quilla Muscadet 2022
$22.00Add to cartSince 1948 the Vinet family has been producing excellent wines and forty years ago they were on the forefront of exporting Muscadet to the American market. Since then they have only refined the delicious example of Melon de Bourgogne. These wines are excellent value and while they feel light and mineral they can actually be aged, but good luck not drinking it in the meantime!
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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 Francois Raveneau Chablis Montee de Tonnerre 1er Cru 2006 1.5L
$1,705.00Add to cartPeach blossom and faint honey on the nose. Faded flavors of apple tart with chablis minerality holding the wine together. Less austere than some version of the wine.
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Domaine Gavoty Clarendon Cotes de Provence 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 Labbe Vin de Savoie Abymes 2022
$19.00Add to cartRoger Labbe’s Abymes is 100% Jacquère, a varietal that grows especially well in the Savoie region of France. While other grapes can be included Labbe chose to showcase the excellent grapes at his disposal in the undersung corner of France.
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Domaine Leflaive Bourgogne Blanc 2018
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Domaine Leflaive Puligny Montrachet 2018
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Domaine Long-Depaquit (Albert Bichot), Chablis, Le Clos Grand Cru, 2020
$125.00Add to cartThis is great Chablis. Still a tad young but starting to coalesce. Expect peak drinking around 2026-2035 (wow can’t believe I just wrote 2035!) Right now the minerality dominates and truncates what will certainly be a more fruit driven finish in the future.
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Domaine Long-Depaquit (Albert Bichot), Chablis, Vaudesir Grand Cru, 2017
$135.00Add to cartIn perfect drinking condition right now (2024) with weightier youthful oak now integrated into the wine. We only scored two bottles of this wine, so get it while you can.
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Domaine Long-Depaquit (Albert Bichot), Chablis, Vaudesir Grand Cru, 2020
$125.00Add to cartFrom 47 year old vines the wine is just coming into its prime drinking and will continue to be fresh and beautiful for another 7 to 10 years. This is a very fine example of the Vaudesir site and an excellent Chablis.
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Domaine Rapet Bourgogne Blanc 2022
$45.00Add to cart