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Closel

Closel - Savennières Les Caillardières
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. From certified-biodynamic estate vines in the Les Caillardières vineyard, which lies on the plateau of Savennières on silky-textured, very poor soils of sand and schist. These 45-year-old vines are harvested by hand 10 days after the earliest-picked wine, La Jalousie, when the...

Biodynamic
DB3342-22

Closel - VDF Blanc "Belle-Dame "
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB5745-23

Closel - Savennières La Jalousie
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. The fruit from "La Jalousie" comes from the youngest estate vines and is harvested the earliest of the three Closel wines. The vines are generally 20 years old or younger and are in different parcels across all three main Closel micro-terroirs (plateau, hillsides or coteaux, and...

Biodynamic
DB0316-22

Closel - Savennières Clos du Papillon
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. From certified-biodynamic estate vines in the esteemed Clos du Papillon vineyard, considered one of the grands crus of the appellation. The Clos du Papillon lies in a coulée, a small ravine or valley that cuts across the Savennières hillside. The steep slopes have perfect south-...

Biodynamic
DB0317-22

Filliatreau

Filliatreau - VDF Mousseux Rosé "Fillibulle"
Cabernet Franc from Loire, France

100% Cabernet Franc. From certified-biodynamic vines on Filliatreau's Château Fouquet estate in Brézé. The bunches are destemmed, gently pressed and fermented with native yeasts in tank. The wine is bottled and goes through a single fermentation to dryness. It is disgorged and finishes with around...

Biodynamic
DB5763-24

Filliatreau - Saumur-Champigny "La Grande Vignolle"
Cabernet Franc from Loire, France

100% Cabernet Franc. "La Grande Vignolle" is a single 6-hectare vineyard on a limestone plateau above a cliff along the Loire a few miles from the winery at the northern limit of the Saumur-Champigny appellation. The vines average 40 years old and the farming is certified-biodynamic (as of 2021)....

Organic
DB0017-23

Filliatreau - Saumur Rouge "Château Fouquet"
Cabernet Franc from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB0016-21

Filliatreau - Saumur Blanc "Château Fouquet"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB4315-23

Filliatreau - Saumur-Champigny "Vielles Vignes"
Cabernet Franc from Loire, France

100% Cabernet Franc. The vieilles vignes in this case range from 50 to 100 years old and are scattered multiple parcels on clay-limestone soils. The farming on the entire 45-hectare Filliatreau estate is certified-biodynamic as of the 2021 vintage. The bunches are harvested by hand, destemmed and...

Biodynamic
DB6201-21

Filliatreau - Saumur-Champigny "Vielles Vignes"
Cabernet Franc from Loire, France

Biodynamic
DB6201-22

Filliatreau - Saumur Blanc "Lena"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. Sourced from a single grower with certified-sustainable vines nearby in Saumur. Filliatreau harvests the fruit. The bunches are direct-pressed and fermented to complete dryness with native yeasts in stainless steel tanks. The wine is aged in tank on its fine lees until the spring...

Organic
DB6199-23

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray Brut "Non-Dosé"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. Pinon makes two traditional-method sparkling wines, from bunches picked earlier than for the still wines and from the more clay and flint-forward parcels. The vines average 45 years old and have been certified-organic since 2007. For the non-dosé--versus the straight brut--the...

Organic
DB8931-20

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray "Première Trie" Moelleux
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB4952-03

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray "Silex Noir"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. Silex noir is a rare black flint found almost exclusively in this tiny corner of Vouvray, the Vallée de Cousse. it lends its name to this bottling, one of Pinon's two demi-sec bottlings (other is "Trois Argiles"). "Silex Noir" comes mainly from 2 parcels totaling 3.7 hectares on...

Organic
DB8927-23

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray "Trois Argiles"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. "Trois Argiles" or "three clays" is named for the 3 parcels of Pinon's most clay-forward soils which go into this demi-sec bottling. They lie on an east-facing plateau and tend to be cooler and slower-ripening thanks to the water-retaining soils. Overall the Pinon vines average...

WS:93 JG:92 Organic
DB8926-20

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray Sec "Buvez du Bon Pinon"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. "Buvez du Bon Pinon" is a very special resurrection of a wine by Julien Pinon, starting in the 2020 vintage, in honor of the preceding generations of the family. His great grandfather Camille planted the vines for "Bon Pinon" in 1945 on silex noir or "black flint" soils unique to...

Organic
DB4145-22

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray Goutte d'Or
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. From a 0.75-hectare, certified-organic parcel of 60-year-old estate vines on clay over limestone. Pinon’s Goutte d’Or liquoreux is its most rare, complex, vaunted sweet wine, produced thus far only in 1989, 1990 and 2018. The correct conditions are quite rare. In 2018, the grapes...

Organic
DB4951-18

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray Sec
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB8892-22

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray "Les Déronnières"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. "Deronnières" is one of Pinon's two usual sec bottlings and is also a terroir-focused bottling, featuring the most limestone-forward of their parcels. The vines are on an exposed hilltop rich in tuffeau, the soft, chalky limestone particular to Vouvray and are the first to ripen...

Organic
DB8902-22

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray Brut
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB8928-22

Renardat-Fâche

Renardat-Fâche - Cerdon du Bugey
Gamay/Poulsard from Bugey, France

70% Gamay/30% Poulsard. The Renardats are 7th-generation vignerons of mainly méthode ancestrale Cerdon du Bugey wines in the tiny village of Mérignat in northern Bugey. They farm 13 hectares of Gamay and Poulsard biodynamically (certified as of the 2022 vintage) in these high, rolling, wooded,...

Biodynamic
DB8972-23

Renardat-Fâche - Bugey Rouge (2021 + 2022)
Gamay from Bugey, France

100% Gamay. The Renardats are 7th-generation vignerons in the tiny Bugey village of Mérignat. They farm their 13 hectares of Gamay and Poulsard biodynamically (certified as of the 2022 vintage) in these high, rolling, wooded, steep hills of rocky clay-limestone soils. Their raison d'être is méthode...

Biodynamic
DB4404-22

Renardat-Fâche - Cerdon du Bugey (2023 + 2024)
Gamay/Poulsard from Bugey, France
Biodynamic
DB8972-24

Renardat-Fâche - VDF "Au Commencement"
Gamay from Bugey, France
Biodynamic
DB3337-23

Montagnette

Montagnette - Côtes-du-Rhône Villages "Signargues"
Grenache from Rhône, France
Organic
DB7014-23

Montagnette - Côtes-du-Rhône Villages "Signargues"
Grenache from Rhône, France
Organic
DB7014-24

Pélaquié

Pélaquié - Côtes-du-Rhône Rouge
from Rhône, France

50% Grenache and 50% Syrah; half of the grapes for the blend are de-classified Laudun Village and half are just outside the appellation. The terroir of Laudun distinguishes Pélaquié from other southern Rhône appellations. The wines from this side of the river typically have higher acidity, with...

Sustainable
DB6403-21

Pélaquié - Côtes-du-Rhône Blanc
Grenache Blanc from Rhône, France
Sustainable
DB6691-23

Pélaquié - Côtes-du-Rhône Villages Laudun Rouge
Grenache from Rhône, France
Sustainable
DB2633-21

Pélaquié - Côtes-du-Rhône Rouge
from Rhône, France

Sustainable
DB6403-22

Pélaquié - Tavel Rosé
Grenache from Rhône, France
Sustainable
DB6407-24

Pélaquié - Côtes-du-Rhône Villages Laudun Blanc
from Rhône, France

20% Viognier, 20% Grenache blanc, 20% Clairette, 15% Roussane, 15% Marsanne, 10% Bourboulenc, all from vines averaging about 20 years of age, planted in sandy and clayish slopes with northern exposure. This is a typically Mediterranean climate, with little rain and a strong mistral wind. Hand-...

JG:90 Sustainable
DB6405-23

Pélaquié - Côtes-du-Rhône Villages Laudun Blanc
from Rhône, France

WS:90 Sustainable
DB6405-22

Pélaquié - Côtes-du-Rhône Blanc ('23)
Grenache Blanc from Rhône, France
Sustainable
DB6692-NV

Pélaquié - Côtes-du-Rhône Blanc
Grenache Blanc from Rhône, France
Sustainable
DB6691-24

Chante Cigale

Chante Cigale - Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc
from Rhône, France

21% Grenache Blanc, 21% Roussanne, 21% Bourbelenc, 21% Clairette and 15% Picpoul. 5% of the Roussanne is fermented in new oak for 6 weeks, then aged in stainless steel. No malolactic. It’s uncommon to find Bourboulenc in a CdP Blanc; Alexandre likes it in the blend because it tends to have lower...

WE:94 JD:92 JG:92 VM:90 Sustainable
DB7841-23

Chante Cigale - Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles Vignes
Grenache from Rhône, France

65% Grenache, 20% Syrah, 10% Mourvèdre, 5% Cinsault. The only difference between the Vieilles Vignes cuvée and the CdP Tradition cuvée is the age of the vines which here reach 100 years old. The wines are made in the same exact way: 70% in tank (stainless steel and cement) and 30% in used barrels.

WS:92 VM:91 Sustainable
DB7842-22

Chante Cigale - Châteauneuf-du-Pape “Pi”
Grenache from Rhône, France
Sustainable
DB7839-22

Chante Cigale - Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Grenache from Rhône, France
JD:94 VM:90 Sustainable
DB7840-23

Chante Cigale - Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc
from Rhône, France

JD:92 VM:90 Sustainable
DB7841-24

Mourgues du Grès

Mourgues du Grès - Costières de Nîmes "Fleur d'Eglantine" Rosé
Grenache from Rhône, France

Certified biodynamic. 60% Grenache Noir, 30% Mourvèdre, 10% Syrah. Fleur’s soils are slightly heavier, with more clay and loam in comparison to Galets. Direct press rose, giving a delicate light pink color. No sulfites during the winemaking process and minimum amount added at bottling. Aged for...

Biodynamic
DB6574-24

Mourgues du Grès - Costières de Nîmes "Terre d'Argence" Rouge
Syrah from Rhône, France
Organic
DB1900-20

Mourgues du Grès - Costières de Nîmes "Galets Dorés" Blanc
Grenache Blanc from Rhône, France

A blend of mostly Grenache with a compliment of Roussanne, Vermentino and Clairette grown in the rare limestone soil of the area. The northern exposure of this terroir provides a cooler environment for the vines and inflects the harsher extremes of the mediterranean summer. This northern site also...

JG:90 Biodynamic
DB9965-24

Mourgues du Grès - Costières de Nîmes Capitelles des Mourgues Blanc
Grenache Blanc from Rhône, France
Sustainable
DB1311-20

Mourgues du Grès - Costières de Nîmes "Galets Dorés" Blanc
Grenache Blanc from Rhône, France

JS:91 Biodynamic
DB9965-23

Mourgues du Grès - Costières de Nîmes "Terre d'Argence" Rouge
Syrah from Rhône, France
JG:91 Organic
DB1900-21

Mourgues du Grès - Costières de Nîmes "Galets" Rosé
Grenache from Rhône, France

Certified biodynamic. 50% Syrah, 40% Grenache Noir, 10% Mourvèdre. From vineyards blanketed in galets, the smooth round stones of Châteauneufdu- Pape fame, comes a vivacious, garnet-colored rosé with bright red fruit notes. Galets Rosé gets a few hours maceration, 2 hours fermentation for Syrah and...

Biodynamic
DB6575-24

Mourgues du Grès - Costières de Nîmes "Galets" Rouges
Syrah from Rhône, France

Predominately Syrah from younger vines, with Grenache, Mourvèdre, Marselan, and old vine Carignan making up the final blend. The wine-making process is traditional: after a maceration period of 8 – 15 days, the wine is matured for 7 to 12 months in epoxy lined concrete tanks in order to best...

JG:92 Biodynamic
DB6107-23