Champagne Ployez-Jacquemart celebrated it 90th anniversary in 2020. To mark this occasion, Laurence Ployez began planning years ago, a special one-time release to celebrate : Cuvée “Granite”. “Granite” combines some of the very best vintages that they have ever made, including 1976, 1982, 1988,...

Ployez-Jacquemart’s Tête de Cuvée. Primary fermentation takes place in 225L casks (2nd and 3rd year). 70% Chardonnay and 30% Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. No malolactic fermentation. Spends six months in the large casks, which imparts richness, structure and complexity, then spends more than 15...

100% Cabernet Franc. Raffault uses 50% certified-organic estate fruit (from sandy, gravelly, flat parcels along the Vienne) and sources the other 50% from a neighboring grower in conversion to organic farming. All of the wine is made from hand-harvested fruit in the Raffault cellar. Half of the...

100% Cabernet Franc. Like the more renowned Les Picasses, Les Peuilles is a lieu-dit close to the village of Beaumont-En-Véron, but it is to the south of town, closer to the Vienne river. It is a plateau rather than a hillside and features soils of clay and flint rather than limestone. The fruit is...

100% Chenin Blanc. Raffault planted Chenin under ten years ago on the special clay-limestone terroir of the Les Picasses hills and bottled it as "Chenin de Picasses" for the first time in the 2020 vintage (note: in France the wine bears a different label and name, "L'Or d'Olga"). The farming is...

Lilbert’s rarest and most sought-after wine, this also comes from all three communes, and is sourced from the best old vines. It is bottled with a lower pressure than the non-vintage classic, making it particularly transparent and mineral. Made entirely from reserve wine. Dosage of 3g/L.

NOT MADE IN THE 2021 VINTAGE 100% Sauvignon Blanc. This cuvée was first bottled in 1997 in homage to Joe Dressner's and Denyse Louis' dog Buster and is bottled annually (unlike other Buster cuvées, which are otherwise only a one-time, one-shot special bottling from a given Dressner producer). "...

100% Grenache from Cristia Haut, a vineyard which faces east and north; the soils are a mix of sand and clay. The vines are 100 years old.   100% destemmed; aged for 18 months in demi-muids, 40% new, 40% two to three years-old, and 20% five years-old.

100% Grenache from 50-55 year old vines. This vineyard is just east of Chateauneuf-du-Pape and across the A7 highway; this is a top Côtes-du-Rhône vineyard, with red clay and rocky galets soil. (Another famous wine from this area is the Coudoulet de Beaucastel Côtes-du-Rhône, considered to be a...

97% Grenache, 3% other varietals. Pure is handcrafted from a single plot of 100-year-old vines and sandy soil, at the junction of “Grand Pierre”, “Rayas” and “Pointu” districts. Underripe stems are removed, and the wine is fermented in underground concrete vats. The wine stays on the skins for over...

Formerly called the "Signature" bottling. From a mix of different terroir found in Châteauneuf; yellow and red sand, red clay, large pebbles, with a high proportion of sand. The average age of the vines is more than 70 years old. The final blend is: • 60% Grenache from a plot at the junction of "...