100% Cabernet Franc. Les Granges comes from 8 ha. of vines lying along the Vienne River in Cravant near the winery. They are around 20 years old now and planted on alluvial soils of gravel and sand with zero clay, which gives rise to a simple, fresh style of Chinon. The farming is certified-organic...

100% Melon de Bourgogne. Classic Muscadet on granite. The "La Pépie" Sur Lie bottling comes from the heart of the Pépière domaine, ten hectares in the Clisson cru in the tiny commune of Pépière near the winery. This certified-biodynamic estate fruit is around 2/3 of the blend; the remaining 1/3 is...

100% Melon de Bourgogne. Gras Moutons is the name of a lieu-dit on a windy, south-facing slope in the cru of Monnières-St. Fiacre. The soils are gravelly and sandy with little clay, rich in decomposed amphibolites and gneiss. The vines are 20 to 70 years old. The farming is certified-biodynamic....

100% Melon de Bourgogne. The Clisson bottling comes from a 50-100-year-old section of vines in Pepière's core vineyard near the winery in the cru of Clisson. Besides vine age, the distinguishing factor is the granite de Clisson, a very hard, compact form of granite. The very poor top soils are...

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...

100% Chenin Blanc. Château Fouquet is a lieu-dit in the village of Brézé, a few miles from the winery in Saumur-Champigny. Filliatreau acquired some abandoned Cab Franc vines here back in the 1990s and revitalized them and planted Chenin Blanc over the years since. The farming is certified-...

100% Cabernet Franc. Château Fouquet is a Saumur lieu-dit in the village of Brézé, a few miles from the winery in Saumur-Champigny. Founder Paul Filliatreau acquired some partly abandoned Cabernet Franc vines here in 1987 and began replanting in 1989 with massale cuttings from his friend and Chinon...

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...

100% Chenin Blanc. 103 grams/liter residual sugar. 

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...

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

All Vergano products are made by the same process in very small quantities in the Vergano lab in the city of Asti. A botanical extract (concia) is made by macerating carefully sourced herbs, flowers, fruits and spices in a neutral, beet-sugar-based spirit for 20 to 30 days in 30-liter, stainless-...

All Vergano products are made by the same process in very small quantities in the Vergano lab in the city of Asti. A botanical extract (concia) is made by macerating carefully sourced herbs, flowers, fruits and spices in a neutral, beet-sugar-based spirit for 20 to 30 days in 30-liter, stainless-...

100% Barbera. Though the calling card of Bera is their Moscato d'Asti, they also grow Barbera in the Canelli hills of Piedmont. Ronco di Malo is the parcel of the oldest Barbera vines, which average 50 years (formerly a much higher number but the the 80-year-old vines had to be replaced not long...

100% Dolcetto. Bera has a 0.8-hectare parcel of 40-year-old Dolcetto vines on their estate in the Canelli hills. The vineyard is certified-organic and harvested by hand. The bunches are destemmed and fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts in 50-hectoliter concrete tanks without sulfur or...

100% Moscato. Bianchdusèt is a unique and "accidental" wine. A tank of Moscato destined for Moscato d'Asti went too far in its fermentation to be used for it. The wine was left untouched in the tank, where it fermented to complete dryness over 2 years and developed a layer of flor over its surface...

100% Barbera from vines located in Perno in the village of Monforte d'Alba, on the right slope in front of Castiglione Falletto. The vineyard sits at 350m with a western exposure. Harvest is usually at the beginning of October.  Fermented in concrete and aged for 18 months in large cask.   

Sourced from 2.2 hectares in different vineyards in Serralunga d’Alba, at altitudes of 370-400m. The oldest vines date back to 1965, while the youngest were planted in 2006.