This wine from Santa Barbara County is a collaboration between Jaffurs Cellars and Baptiste Grangeon of Cristia. It's a classic white Rhône blend of 36% Roussanne, 34% Clairette, and 30% Grenache Blanc. Grown in sandy shale soil, from 35 year-old vines. Aged ten months in oak barrels.

60% Grenache, 40% Syrah. Grown in clay-limestone soil, from vines averaging 35 years old. Aged 15 months in concrete vats.

2015 was the first vintage of this new project that Julien made with his friend Yannick Alliaud. They found a very old-vine parcel located at 125 meters above sea-level in Chateauneuf-de-Gadagne, just east of Avignon. The soils are very similar to La Crau in Châteauneuf-du-Pape with layers of sand...

The “Fiancée” is only bottled in exceptional years and the last release was the 2019 vintage. The blend is 50% Grenache from the 100-year-old Terres Blanches plot, which lends finesse and silkiness to the wine, and 50% Syrah from the Cabrieres plot, which contributes fruit, power, colour, and cocoa...

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...

New! Winemaker, Damien Vache, really appreciates a lighter bodied style of wine from the Rhône and with the recent hot vintages, this is becoming more and more difficult to achieve. As he replaces old vines that are no longer producing fruit, he is planting more Counoise, Cinsault, and Carignan,...

70% Grenache and 30% Syrah from vines of an average age of 40 years, planted in chalky grit and sandy clay. The fruit is hand-harvested, with rigorous sorting; 100% de-stemmed. Fermented with natural yeasts, with a maceration of 20 days with punch-downs. Aged 1 year in a combination of tanks and...

100% Gamay. L'Ancien comes from Jean Paul's oldest vines--hence the name of the wine--in his home village of Charnay in the southern Beaujolais. They range in age from 40 to 60 years old and are planted on slopes sporting the area's signature sandy clay-limestone soils, featuring the particular...

100% Gamay. Jean-Paul's Moulin-à-Vent comes from 30-45-year-old vines in the lieu-dit called La Tour du Bief. They are midslope on a hill near the famous windmill for which Moulin-à-Vent was named. The ancient metamorphic soils are decomposed pink granite with heavy clay into which the roots go...

100% Gamay. From the Bellevue lieu-dit in Morgon near the Côte du Py. The vines are planted on a slight, south-facing slope on sandy, schistous, granitic soils. The farming is sustainable and the harvest by hand. As for all Terres Dorées wines, the vinification is traditional Burgundian: the...

100% Gamay. Jean-Paul farms 6 hectares in Fleurie, all of it in the celebrated lieu-dit of Grille Midi, a south-facing amphitheater of vines on poor, sandy, decomposed-granite soils over hard granite rock. This site yields wines of great concentration, power and longevity.There are two Terres...

Savigny les Beaune 1er cru Les Hauts Jarrons plot is located on a 0.4 ha terrace at an altitude of 280 m facing east. The soil is "Grèzes Litées", these are stony limestone sands resulting from the frost fraction of the last ice ages on the Beaune Limestone. This type of soil, quite rare in...

From 2.50 hectares. This wine comes from four plots in Cheilly-lès-Maranges on Triassic formations and gravel from the Cozanne and Dheune valleys. It's aged for a total of 18 months, twelve months in neutral French oak barrels and six months in stainless steel vats. Contrary to popular belief,...

Chevrot owns four hectares of Pinot Noir in this climat; he uses only the best fruit for this cuvée. The plots face south and are rich in limestone, gravel and decomposed sand from granite. The river, la Cozanne, which made this soil, crosses a granitic canyon. The granitic sand in this soil gives...

One of the top sites in Santenay. Chevrot has 1.5 hectares of vines that average 50 years old. There is no clay in this site and the terroir is marl from the Bajocian period. The Clos Rousseau always plays a game of contrasts, it's powerful and elegant. The tannins are always very fine, giving...

Located just above the ancient windmill in Santenay. Stoney marl soil gives the wine a lot of tension, reminiscent of Puligny. Aged mostly in 600L barrels.

100% Gamay. "Les Pierres" comes from a 0.57-hectare plot of 90-year-old vines in the historic lieu-dit of Javernières at the foot of the famous Côte du Py hill. The parcel is on a steep, east-facing slope with iron-rich, red clay soils with schist, pyrite and blue granite. The farming is certified...

100% Gamay. The beginning of the Desvignes range is "La Voûte Saint Vincent", named for the vault or "voûte" of the old family house and for the patron saint of winemakers. It is a blend of certified-organic estate parcels totalling 4.5 hectares in the climat of Douby, which lies in the northeast...

100% Gamay. This bottling from the celebrated climat of Corcelette is the first Desvignes wine from sourced, organically farmed fruit. Desvignes harvests the fruit by hand from a 0.8-hectare plot of 50-year-old vines on poor, sandy pink granite soils on a south-facing slope (see the dark green...