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Texier, Éric

Texier, Éric - VDF Blanc "Adèle"
Clairette from Rhône, France

100% Clairette (plus a touch of Marsanne). From certifed-organic, mainly-Clairette vines planted on a south-facing slope on the granite soils of the St-Julien en St-Alban zone in the Ardèche at the southern edge of the northern Rhône Valley). The bunches are harvested by hand, direct-pressed and...

Organic
DB0053-24

Texier, Éric - Côtes-du-Rhône Blanc Brézème
Roussanne from Rhône, France

100% Roussanne. From vines planted in 2003 from Texier old-vine cuttings, facing south on the Brézème slope on limestone marl soils. The farming is certified-organic and harvest is manual. Whole-cluster press with spontaneous fermentation and no sulfur in cement tanks; aging of 6-8 months on fine...

Organic
DB8942-24

Raffault, Domaine Olga

Raffault, Domaine Olga - Chinon Blanc "Chenin des Picasses"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB3947-21

Raffault, Domaine Olga - Chinon Blanc "Champ-Chenin"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. Raffault has some of the oldest Chenin Blanc vines in Chinon in a one-hectare monopole called Champ Chenin, a particularly limestone-rich patch of ground in due west of the famous Les Picasses vineyard. Like all Raffault vines, these are farmed organically and harvested by hand....

Organic
DB0456-23

Chevrot's aligoté comes from four parcels planted in 1970 and 1984. Two parcels have a gravel terroir and the other two have a sandstone terroir. The sandstone gives a smokey characteristic to the wine. Many people mistakenly believe that this smokey note comes from oak, but this wine is made in...

Organic
DB0493-23

Chevrot - Maranges Blanc
Chardonnay from Burgundy, France
Organic
DB4440-22

Chevrot - Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Beaune Blanc
Chardonnay from Burgundy, France
Organic
DB3866-23

Chevrot - Santenay Blanc "Comme Dessus"
Chardonnay from Burgundy, France
Organic
DB1328-22

Thevenet (Domaine de la Bongran/Domaine de Roally)

Thevenet (Domaine de la Bongran/Domaine de Roally) - Bongran Viré-Clessé "Cuvée E.J.Thévenet"
Chardonnay from Burgundy, France

100% Chardonnay. Bongran is the heart of the Thévenet family's holdings, its original home estate going back to post-WWI years; in later years, Jean Thévenet added two more small properties and created separate domaines and labels for them (Roally and Domaine Émilian Gillet). His son Gautier has...

Organic
DB0350-20

Thevenet (Domaine de la Bongran/Domaine de Roally) - Roally Viré-Clessé
Chardonnay from Burgundy, France

100% Chardonnay. Like Domaine de la Bongran and Domaine Émilian Gillet, Domaine de Roally belongs to the Thévenet family. Bongran is the original heart of it all; Gillet was added in 1980; and Roally came about after the 2000 vintage. Roally's original owner was an old schoolmate of Jean Thévenet's...

Organic
DB0349-22

Desvignes

Desvignes - Beaujolais Blanc "Sans Bois ni Loi"
Chardonnay from Beaujolais, France

100% Chardonnay. 2023 is just the third vintage of white wine at Desvignes, the first in the domaine's 8 generations. The 0.26-hectare plot of vines planted in 2005 is in the same vineyard as the Gamay for their relatively new "L'Aube à Javernières", on deep clay soils technically just outside the...

Organic
DB3302-24

Baudry, Domaine Bernard

Baudry, Domaine Bernard - Chinon Blanc "Le Domaine"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB0305-24

Pépière

Pépière - Muscadet "La Pépie" (Mise Précoce)
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France

100% Melon de Bourgogne. Classic Muscadet on granite. The core of the "La Pépie" Sur Lie bottling is the 10-hectare heart of the Pépière estate, which is part of the Clisson cru in the tiny commune of Pépière near the winery; there is also a portion of purchased fruit from a nearby organic farmer...

Organic
DB8964-25

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine Sur Lie "La Pépie"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France

Organic
DB8905-24

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre et Maine Sur Lie "Gras Moutons"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France
Organic
DB0331-23

Closel

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

Filliatreau

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 "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 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 "Première Trie" Moelleux
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB4952-03

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

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 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
DB4145-23

Piuze, Patrick

Piuze, Patrick - Chablis “Côteaux de Fontenay”
Chardonnay from Burgundy, France
WA:91VM:90 Organic
DB9700-22

Piuze, Patrick - Chablis “Terroir de la Chapelle”
Chardonnay from Burgundy, France
Organic
DB9801-24

Peillot

Peillot - Altesse Roussette du Bugey Montagnieu
Altesse from Bugey, France

100% Altesse. Altesse is also known as Roussette locally, hence the name of the Roussette de Bugey AOC. Montagnieu is a hilltop village and the only cru in this part of the southern Bugey, comprising 32 contiguous hectares on a steep, southeast-facing slope. The soils are a mix of rocky limestone...

Organic
DB0991-22

De Moor

De Moor - Bourgogne Aligoté
Aligoté from Burgundy, France
Organic
DB0964-23

De Moor - Vendangeur Masqué Chablis
Chardonnay from Burgundy, France

100% Chardonnay. Vendangeur Masqué or “masked harvester” is the label for de Moor wines from sourced fruit; the wines are made in the de Moor cellar in Courgis in the same manner as their estate wines. The Vendangeur Masqué Chablis comes from 2 clay-limestone parcels totaling 1.1 hectares of...

Organic
DB2356-23

De Moor - Vendangeur Masqué Bourgogne Blanc
Chardonnay from , France

100% Chardonnay. Vendangeur Masqué or “masked harvester” is the label for De Moor wines made from sourced fruit or rented vines. Alice and Olivier make the wines in their home cellar in Courgis. They rent and work a small parcel of vines in Auxerre for this bottling. It is harvested by hand. The...

Organic
DB2355-23

De Moor - Chablis Premier Cru Mont de Milieu
Chardonnay from Burgundy, France
Organic
DB5817-23

De Moor - Chablis Premier Cru Vau de Vey
Chardonnay from Burgundy, France

100% Chardonnay. In the 2017 vintage, the de Moors made their first foray into premier-cru Chablis, in this case by purchasing a 0.92-hectare parcel in the Vau de Vey vineyard (its name means "little valley" in local parlance). The parcel was planted in 1983 and is southeast-facing and steep. The...

Organic
DB5811-22

De Moor - Bourgogne Chitry
Chardonnay from Burgundy, France

100% Chardonnay. The de Moors have 1.2 hectares of Chardonnay in two contiguous parcels in Chitry-Le-Fort, down the road from their home village of Courgis. Like their next-door Aligoté parcel, this one they began planting in 1995; together these parcels form the origin and heart of the estate. The...

Organic
DB0968-23

De Moor - VDF Blanc " Nuova Descriptio"
Sauvignon Blanc from Burgundy, France
Organic
DB4744-23

De Moor - Chablis Bel Air et Clardys
Chardonnay from Burgundy, France

100% Chardonnay. Bel Air and Clardys are two parcels 300 meters apart, planted in the mid-1990’s and totaling 1 hectare, in the De Moor home village of Courgis (a few miles from town of Chablis). The soils are stony and chalky, in other words classically Chablisien. Bel Air in particular has full...

Organic
DB0970-23

De Moor - Chablis "L`Humeur du Temps"
Chardonnay from Burgundy, France

100% Chardonnay. The name tells the story: “the mood of the times (or weather)” indicates that it’s the de Moors’ way to capture the nature of the vintage as a whole. It comes from 3-4 estate parcels in and around Courgis that thede Moors planted beginning in 1995. The farming is certified-organic...

Organic
DB0965-23

Tue-Boeuf, Clos du

Tue-Boeuf, Clos du - VDF "Le Brin de Chèvre" (Menu Pineau)
Menu Pineau from Loire, France

100% Menu Pineau. Brin de Chèvre ("goat's hay") comes from two neighboring parcels, one planted in 1937 and the other in 1950; currently, those original old vines make up about 70% of the wine, with the rest from massale-selection replantings from over the last decade or two. The vines are planted...

Organic
DB8334-24

Tue-Boeuf, Clos du - VDF "Vin Blanc"
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB0531-24

Tue-Boeuf, Clos du - VDF "Le Petit Buisson" (Sauvignon)
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France

100% Sauvignon Blanc. Tue Boeuf has been sourcing from this site known as Petit Buisson on the north bank of the Cher since 2003. It is an organically farmed, hand-harvested, 1.4-hectare parcel of 35-40-year-old vines on flinty clay-limestone soils. Typical of Tue Boeuf whites, Petit Buisson fruit...

Organic
DB1021-24

Tue-Boeuf, Clos du - VDF "Buisson Pouilleux" (Sauvignon)
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France

100% Sauvignon Blanc. Buisson Pouilleux is a 1.1-hectare vineyard of two parcels of Sauvignon, one planted in 1950 and the other in 1964; currently, half of the original old vines remain while the other half has gradually been replanted over the last 20-25 years. The clay-based soils are gravelly...

Organic
DB1153-24

Tue-Boeuf, Clos du - Cheverny Blanc "Frileuse"
White Blend from Loire, France

1/3 each Sauvignon/Chardonnay/Fié Gris. Roughly translated as "little cold one", Frileuse is an apt name for this frost-prone, 3.8-hectare site at the top of the Tue-Boeuf estate. It is home to three varieties, including Fié Gris, the historical name for Sauvignon Gris, a Sauvignon variant with...

Organic
DB8333-24

Famille Isabel Ferrando

Famille Isabel Ferrando - Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc
Clairette from Rhône, France

A new expression of Chateaneuf-du-Pape Blanc in the 2021 vintage. It’s a blend of 60% Clairettes and 40% Roussanne from the Serres lieu-dit with galets stones, gravel, and blue clay. It’s the first vintage that is aged in a mix of glass demi-johns and two year-old demi-muids barrels. Clairette...

JD:97 JS:95 WA:94 VM:93 Organic
DB7380-23