#2 PRIMA’s ’24 for 24’ Best Wines Of The Year 2023  We sure hated running out of Luc Prieur’s 2022 Sancerre Blanc. So did you! That lovely little wine was one of our biggest sellers of the spring! There is some good news,...

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 vertiginous slopes that make farming it a...

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 harvest in...

And now for something completely different!  How about Cabernet Franc from centenarian vines grown in one of the Loire Valley’s most iconic monopole vineyards!?   Thanks to our exciting (but all too rare) dalliances with mature...

For some unknown reason, most of our recent tastings with vendors have focused on French wines and, in particular, wines from the Loire Valley. I, for one, can’t complain because I love the wines from this important wine growing region, home to hundreds...