France

2021 Domaine du Pegau Chateauneuf du Pape Blanc, Cuvee Reservee
2021 Domaine du Pegau Chateauneuf du Pape Blanc, Cuvee Reservee
We’ve just received our small allocation of this Chateauneuf blue blood!  The white is a rarity made from Clairette, Grenache Blanc and Roussanne.  While a lot of Chateauneuf Blancs can be quite low in acid and lacking in great structure,...
$62.99
$59.99
2023 Domaine Olga Raffault Chinon Rose
2023 Domaine Olga Raffault Chinon Rose
Olga does Rose???? There are lots and lots of Raffaults along the Loire Valley of France but there was only one Olga Raffault. In her many years growing and making wine in Chinon, she secured for herself a particularly rarified place in the wine...
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$22.99
2023 Les Heritiers du Comte Lafon Macon-Villages
2023 Les Heritiers du Comte Lafon Macon-Villages
  Like the Côte d’Or, the Maconnais was blessed with near ideal conditions in 2023. Yields, for the first time in a while, were higher than normal and that provided ample counter weight to q warm growing season. The resulting wines...
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2023 Chateau Pradeaux Bandol Rose
2023 Chateau Pradeaux Bandol Rose
The iconic Bandol Rosé from Château Pradeaux is a cornerstone of our portfolio, comprising 70% Mourvèdre, 25% Cinsault, and 5% Grenache, from vines up to 80 years old. Fermented spontaneously and aged on its fine lees in a combination...
$33.99
2020 Chateau Haut de la Becade, Pauillac
2020 Chateau Haut de la Becade, Pauillac
Location, location, location, they say. How can this property, sitting as it does at the southern border of Chateau Lynch-Bages and contiguous to six other Classified Growth Pauillacs including Chateau Latour remain under everyone’s...
$44.99
2023 Peyrassol "La Croix" Méditerranée Rosé IGP
2023 Peyrassol "La Croix" Méditerranée Rosé IGP
I often say that the first duty of Rosé wine is to be French and, secondly, to be from Provence.  If I were to add a third requirement, it would be that it’s comfortably affordable.  Well, I’m happy to report that the...
$21.99
$18.99
2023 Isabelle Garrault Sancerre Blanc 'Les Grands Monts'
2023 Isabelle Garrault Sancerre Blanc 'Les Grands Monts'
  Good Sancerre is such an important staple in any wine fridge and we love to drink it with so many kinds of food. But Mother Nature dictates how much good Sancerre there can be out there, and she’s been very parsimonious over the past...
$37.99
2022 Chateau de Manissy Tavel Rose 'Tete de Cuvee'
2022 Chateau de Manissy Tavel Rose 'Tete de Cuvee'
So you want something a little different and the Basque Region isn’t strange enough?  How about one of Tavel’s most famous wines?  Even in an appellation more famous for Rose than anything else, Manissy’s Tete de Cuvee truly...
$29.99
2023 Coteaux des Margots Macon-Villages
2023 Coteaux des Margots Macon-Villages
We are big fans of this small, family-owned domaine, nestled in the hills of the Macon region of southern Burgundy, in the notable village of Pierreclos.  Domaine Coteaux des Margot is owned by Jean-Luc Durossay, and their wines are imported and...
$21.99
$18.99
2023 Domaine du Bagnol Cassis Rose 3 LITER BOTTLE
2023 Domaine du Bagnol Cassis Rose 3 LITER BOTTLE
Cassis sits with Bandol on one side of Marseilles on the Mediterranean coast but its production is a mere fraction of their much-better known neighbor. And, what, say, Domaine Tempier, is to Bandol is what Domaine du Bagnol is to Cassis- the...
$159.99
2023 Domaine du Bagnol Cassis Rose MAGNUM
2023 Domaine du Bagnol Cassis Rose MAGNUM
Summer is coming back! We promise. Cassis sits with Bandol on one side of Marseilles on the Mediterranean coast but its production is a mere fraction of their much-better known neighbor. And, what, say, Domaine Tempier, is to Bandol is what...
$74.99
2023 Domaine La Bastide Blanche Bandol Rose Magnums
2023 Domaine La Bastide Blanche Bandol Rose Magnums
The bluest of Bandol blue chips have also arrived. Can you believe Bastide Blanche, one of the most venerable of all producers in Bandol is half the price of Domaine Tempier? That probably won’t stop you from getting some Tempier, though...
$79.99
2023 Domaine La Bastide Blanche Bandol Rose
2023 Domaine La Bastide Blanche Bandol Rose
The bluest of Bandol blue chips have also arrived. Can you believe Bastide Blanche, one of the most venerable of all producers in Bandol is half the price of Domaine Tempier? That probably won’t stop you from getting some Tempier, though...
$31.99
2023 Domaine Tempier Bandol Rose Magnum
2023 Domaine Tempier Bandol Rose Magnum
The bluest of Bandol blue chips have also arrived. Can you believe Bastide Blanche, one of the most venerable of all producers in Bandol is half the price of Domaine Tempier? That probably won’t stop you from getting some Tempier, though...
$134.99
2022 Domaine La Folie Rully Blanc Clos Saint Jacques 1er Cru Monopole
2022 Domaine La Folie Rully Blanc Clos Saint Jacques 1er Cru Monopole
At last the Clos La Folie drought is over and we couldn’t be more excited! To the uninitiated, Rully, near the regional city of Chalon-sur-Soane and just three miles south of Chassagne-Montrachet as the Burgundian crow flies, has long been the...
$62.99
2020 Crocus Malbec de Cahors l'Atelier
2020 Crocus Malbec de Cahors l'Atelier
When I saw that the name ‘Paul Hobb’s was associated with the Crocus Cahors, I sat up and took notice. When I noticed the incredibly low price, I just had to learn more. After all, Paul Hobbs is a near-legendary winemaker, famous for his...
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$18.99
2020 Domaine Paleine Saumur Rouge
2020 Domaine Paleine Saumur Rouge
No overview of French wine can ignore the Loire Valley because of its sheer size and the staggering numbers of appellations found along its meandering river banks. Another one of my pipe dreams is to explore the entire Loire River Valley, from Muscadet...
$19.99
2023 Domaine du Bagnol Cassis Rose
2023 Domaine du Bagnol Cassis Rose
Planning a party this summer? MAGNUMS(!) and LARGER FORMATS are available Cassis sits with Bandol on one side of Marseilles on the Mediterranean coast but its production is a mere fraction of their much-better known neighbor. And, what, say,...
$33.99
2022 Domaine Paul Prieur Sancerre Monts Damnes
2022 Domaine Paul Prieur Sancerre Monts Damnes
For the first time in five years, we’ve been able to get a small allocation of Luc’s Monts Damnés. If Sancerre had a Grand Cru, this would be its most important! Affectionately called ‘damned mountain’ for its...
$49.99
2023 Lucien Reymond Sancerre AOC
2023 Lucien Reymond Sancerre AOC
As you know, there haven’t been many great deals in Sancerre since the great Sancerre famine of the past two vintages, but this new arrival 2022 got our attention not only for its classicism but for its price!  This very small micro-negoce is...
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$29.99
2020 Domaine Masson-Blondelet Pouilly Fume "D'Or et Diamant"
Domaine Masson-Blondelet
2020 Domaine Masson-Blondelet Pouilly Fume "D'Or et Diamant"
As every lover of the crisp, mineral driven Sauvignons of the Loire Valley already all-too-well knows, the 2020 and, especially, the 2021 harvests were nearly decimated by nature’s vagaries. Frost, in particular, claimed over half of the...
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$34.99
2022 Domaine Pierre Guillemot Savigny-Les-Beaune Blanc
2022 Domaine Pierre Guillemot Savigny-Les-Beaune Blanc
If they needed a set for a movie about Burgundy in the 1950s, they wouldn’t have to look any further than this eight-generation old cellar in Savigny-Les-Beaune. Here is a spot steeped in tradition with none of the...
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$49.99
2023 Domaine Charles Joguet Chinon Rose
2023 Domaine Charles Joguet Chinon Rose
With all the Johnny-come-lately Roses in the market this year (yes, regrettably, Rose has definitely become a thing) it’s important, I think, to recognize the old timers- those producers who have long spent the time and effort necessary to make...
$21.99
2021 Domaine Faiveley Mercurey Rouge 'Vieilles Vignes'
2021 Domaine Faiveley Mercurey Rouge 'Vieilles Vignes'
No one, outside of the growers who have long resided in the village itself, has deeper roots (as it were) in the Cote Chalonnaise village of Mercurey than Domaine Faiveley. The family’s holdings in the appellation go back centuries are...
$48.99
2022 Louis Jadot Bourgogne Blanc
2022 Louis Jadot Bourgogne Blanc
Affordable but tasty white Burgundy is an essential- like the little black dress of your wine fridge.  The successful candidate should be inexpensive enough to open any night of the week, go well with any sort of food, taste great by all itself and,...
$22.99
$19.99
Lanson Brut Black Label NV
Lanson Brut Black Label NV
Wine Country: France Wine Subregion: Champagne It’s not every day that such a terrific Champagne value drops in my lap but when it does, I am quick to scoop it up and share it with our valued PRIMA customers.  This isn’t just any...
$52.00
$41.99
2022 Isabelle Garrault Sancerre Blanc 'Les Grands Monts' 750 ml
2022 Isabelle Garrault Sancerre Blanc 'Les Grands Monts' 750 ml
Good Sancerre is such an important staple in any wine fridge and we love to drink it with so many kinds of food.  But Mother Nature dictates how much good Sancerre there can be out there, and she’s been very parsimonious over the past few...
$36.99
Doyard Mahe DM Empreinte Blanc de Blancs Champagne
Doyard Mahe
Doyard Mahe DM Empreinte Blanc de Blancs Champagne
As a person, Carole Doyard is truly engaging so it’s not surprising that  her wines reflect her effervescent personality and ‘joie de vivre’.  On the other hand, she is a serious and accomplished winemaker who makes pure,...
$59.99