• Les Parcellaires de Saulx is a focused micro-négociant launched in 2017. It was founded on the site of the centuries old Manoir des Grands Bourgognes in Meursault. • The first priority of the new company was to retain the services of...
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 radar? One reason may...
Since the mid 1990s, the domaine has followed the principles of lutte raisonnée (reasoned fight) in its farming practices, plowing rather than spraying herbicides, forgoing the use of chemical fertilizers, and being conscientious in its...
Clos Saint Jacques’s 4.2 acres were planted in 1952 in a postage stamp of a vineyard that faces due east on a steep slope (this enclosed vineyard should not be confused with Rully’s larger Les Saint Jacques vineyard to the south). The wine is...
Winery Notes: To the eye: Pale yellow color, bright and clear On the nose: Complex yellow and floral fruits. Palate: Fruit with white flesh, round and full. This wine can be enjoyed as an aperitif as well as at the table with foie gras, fish,...
Wine Spectator just made it their #7 Wine of the Year, too.
Another ultra-important 2020 southern Rhone release has just arrived, Daniel Brunier’s monolithic Vieux Telegraph Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge. The...
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...
Historically one never turned to the Macon for rich, character-filled white Burgundies. They looked further up the Cotes to find them. But a new generation of vintner and a little help from a changing climate has turned appellations like...
Importer's Notes: The estate cultivates some 20 different, small vineyard plots in and around the town of Bois d’Oignt, in sections called ‘Les Grandes Coasses’ and ‘La Carrière,’ at the southern tip of the...
Importer's Notes: Considered one of the finest winemakers in France, Dominique Lafon produces some of the most coveted white Burgundies. He strongly believes in the potential in Maconnais where he has been making terroir-driven wines since 1999...
Albert Boxler is, of course, one of Alsace’s most exclusive and famous producers. The venerable Boxler name has been a fixture on the landscape of Niedermorschwihr in the Haut-Rhin area of Alsace since 1673 when Jean Boxler’s ancestors moved there from...
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In 1662, Chateau Meyney was a convent. That may be one explanation as to how the property avoided being named a Classified Growth when that designation came into being back in 1855. Its neighbors certainly were- Meyney’s...
In what’s officially (in my mind) the coolest wine evv-vahh, we present the 2021 Vin de la Solitude from Domaine de la Solitude; Chateauneuf du Pape as it once was, or, maybe, how it may be again. The grapes are fermented as whole clusters...
2021 Fèvre Fèvre Chablis "Montée de Tonnerre" 1er Cru There’s something about that Fevre name! This branch of the first family of Chablis, that of William’s cousin Nathalie who, for many years, was the winemaker at...
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...
2022 Domaine de Pallus 'Messanges' Chinon Rose Welcome to spring! This lovely pink of 100% Cabernet Franc has just-arrived from the Loire Valley for your spring and summer quaffing pleasure. It is here, I think, where Cab...
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10% off Pre-arrivalWINES ARRIVE AT THE FIRST WEEK OF OCTOBER AND ARE BEING SHIPPED UNDER OPTIMAL CONDITIONS BY THE CONTERNOS’ DESIGNATED IMPORTER- THAT’S IMPORTANT!
10% off Pre-arrivalWINES ARRIVE AT THE FIRST WEEK OF OCTOBER AND ARE BEING SHIPPED UNDER OPTIMAL CONDITIONS BY THE CONTERNOS’ DESIGNATED IMPORTER- THAT’S IMPORTANT!
The 2022 red Burgundies are arriving apace and, as a group so far, they’ve been sensational! Coming on the heels of the massive, ultra-ripe 2020s and the very serious 2021s, they are also a refreshing change; wines that have amazing fruit but also...
The 2022 red Burgundies are arriving apace and, as a group so far, they’ve been sensational! Coming on the heels of the massive, ultra-ripe 2020s and the very serious 2021s, they are also a refreshing change; wines that have amazing fruit but also...
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 frou-frou associated with some of the...
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 frou-frou associated with some of the...
Everyone’s favorite martyr returns! Poor Saint Damien, dead since 287, is now known as the patron saint of doctors, and his visage graces the label of one of the most exciting wineries in the southern Rhone Valley……..
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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...
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...
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. I know it...
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...
As much fun to drink as it is to say, “peek-pool de pin-nay”. This popular white wine from the south of France, abutting the Mediterranean, is the perfect white wine for everyday enjoyment. Fresh fruit with tantalizing acidity and a crisp...
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...