Beatus Ille is mostly Grenache blended with about 15% Cinsault from a parcel named, La Lionne, in the Sorgues district, just at the southern border of Chateauneuf-du-Pape and another parcel. It’s blended with a bit of Syrah from Châteauneuf-du-Pape. It’s 100% destemmed and fermented and aged in...

70% Pineau d’Aunis/20% Cabernet Franc/10% Gamay. 2020 was the first vintage of "Icône". Averaging 30 years old, the vines are planted on clay-limestone soils in the heart of the Cher valley of the Touraine region in the Loire. They are certified-organic and tended and harvested by hand. The bunches...

Domaine de la Pirolette makes two single-vineyard wines, each showcasing a different terroir found within Saint-Amour. The "Carjot" comes from blue volcanic soil and is vinified in four barrels and one egg, a fifty-fifty blend. The "Carjot" feels a bit more structured and spicey than the "Poulette...

From three sites on the Plateau de Chassis in the village of Mercurol. In the shadow of Hermitage, the land opens up here and there are many fruit orchards alongside the vineyards. Away from the famous steep slopes, the terroir is a mix of sandy clay and round river stones (galets roules). 100%...

A young vine Syrah from several villages Chavanay, Ardoix, Saint-Michel-sur-Rhône, and Verin, all with a decomposed granite soil. Twelve day maceration with twenty-five percent whole clusters in open-top wood tronconique vats followed by eleven months of aging, half in the vat and half in neutral...

Certified organic viticulture. The vines were planted during the 1960’s in Comblanchien. This lieu-dit is located at the top of the slope, facing east with white stony soils over limestone bedrock. The vines are trimmed by hand, leaving a high canopy. 100% whole cluster, indigenous yeast...

A signature blend of 50% Merlot, with equal parts Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. It’s wonderful “drinkability” is highlighted by the absence of oak during the aging process, which allows a bursting acidity and graphite minerality (imagine the lead of fresh pencil shavings) to shine through...

Marine Descombe runs her family winery at Vins Descombe in Brouilly, which was founded in 1905 by her grandfather. A textbook blue stone Brouilly style Beaujolais-Villages. Beautiful purity of gamay noir fruit meets cement ageing, showcasing the unique expression of Beaujolais. Certified...

A signature blend of 50% Merlot, with equal parts Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. It’s wonderful “drinkability” is highlighted by the absence of oak during the aging process, which allows a bursting acidity and graphite minerality (imagine the lead of fresh pencil shavings) to shine through...

From 40+ year-old vines in Pernand-Vergelesses, planted in very red soil. Purchased fruit, practicing organic. 100% whole cluster vinification, indigenous yeast fermentation with a few pump-overs.

A blend from three different parcels in Savigny-les-Beaune. Pretty and elegant. 100% whole cluster.

Les Clous: 0.17 ha, southwest-facing, heavy clay and marl soils. Nampoillon:0.52 ha, southwest-facing, cool area with well-draining soils. No tilling,and harvested 5 days after Les Clous. 100% whole cluster with minimal added SO2, 3-day cold maceration, long ambient yeast fermentation in 1600L tank...

Juicy and vibrant, this nouveau is hard to resist. It comes entirely from estate fruit and is made in cement tanks with a natural, semi-carbonic maceration. Semi-carbonic maceration happens naturally when the grapes on the bottom of the tank are crushed by the fruit on top and the carbonic gas...

Cote 50 is the entry-level wine from Yannick Amirault coming from 4.75 hectares of vines on gravelly clay and sandy soils in Bourgueil. Grapes are hand harvested in successive passes, destemmed, undergo a 3-4 week maceration and a natural yeast fermentation in oak vats. Aged for 7-12 months in...

Château Mourre du Tendre tends 3ha of vines in Châteauneuf-du-Pape in the lieu-dits of Le Crau, La Guigasse and Saintes-Vierges – all sandy terroirs. While primarily Grenache, planted in 1929 and 1945, there is a small portion of Mourvedre that Jacques Paumel added in 1967 to compliment the final...