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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 "L`Aube à Javernières"
Gamay from Beaujolais, France

100% Gamay. 2020 was the first vintage of this bottling and the first Desvignes wine to not be strictly from within the boundaries of Morgon. This 0.84-hectare parcel of 20-30-year-old, now-certified-organic vines consists of deep clay soils at the edge of Javernières. The bunches are harvested by...

Organic
DB3303-24

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

Desvignes - Morgon "La Voûte Saint-Vincent"
Gamay from Beaujolais, France

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...

Organic
DB0392-24

Desvignes - Morgon Château Gaillard
Gamay from Beaujolais, France

100% Gamay. Château Gaillard is a lieu-dit in the NE corner of Morgon in the climat of Douby, along the Fleurie border. Desvignes used to include this 1.03-hectare plot of 80-year-old, south-facing vines in their entry-level "La Voûte Saint-Vincent", but its strong old-vine character warranted its...

Organic
DB3304-24

Desvignes - Morgon Corcelette
Gamay from Beaujolais, France
Organic
DB5602-24

Desvignes - Morgon Côte du Py
Gamay from Beaujolais, France

100% Gamay. From 2.2 hectares of parcels on the Côte du Py, which is famous for its roche pourrie or "rotten rock" of manganese-rich, decomposed schist and its structured, long-lived wines. The vines are around 70 years old and have a cooler NE exposure at the top of the hill. They are certified-...

Organic
DB0393-24

Desvignes - Morgon Javernières
Gamay from Beaujolais, France

100% Gamay. From 3 hectares of vines in the historic Morgon lieu-dit of Javernières at the foot of the famous hill of the Côte du Py. The soils are much heavier with deep, iron-rich, red clay here versus the more schistous "rotten rock" up the Py hill. The vines are certified-organic, are 40 years...

Organic
DB0345-24

Desvignes - Morgon Javernières "Aux Pierres"
Gamay from Beaujolais, France
Organic
DB3305-24

Baudry, Domaine Bernard

Baudry, Domaine Bernard - Chinon Rosé
Cabernet Franc from Loire, France

100% Cabernet Franc. The fruit for the rosé comes from estate parcels of flinty alluvial soils mainly. The vines are on the younger side.The farming is certified-organic. All vineyard work, including harvest, is by hand. The whole clusters are gently pressed into unlined cement vats. Fermentation...

Organic
DB0431-24

Baudry, Domaine Bernard - Chinon "La Croix Boissée"
Cabernet Franc from Loire, France
Organic
DB0378-22

Baudry, Domaine Bernard - Chinon "Les Mollières"
Cabernet Franc from Loire, France

100% Cabernet Franc. 2020 was the first separate bottling of this particular 1-hectare plot, Mollières, which previously was blended into another cuvée. Mollières lies in the extreme west of Chinon, at the highest hillside location of any of Baudry's vines. It is a windy, well-exposed site with...

Organic
DB4672-21

Baudry, Domaine Bernard - Chinon "Les Granges"
Cabernet Franc from Loire, France

100% Cabernet Franc. The Granges vines are an 8-hectare site along the Vienne River in Cravant, just below the winery. They are around 20 years old now and planted on pure sand and pebbles with virtually no clay, giving rise to a light, fresh style of Chinon. The farming is certified-organic. All...

Organic
DB8967-24

Baudry, Domaine Bernard - Chinon Blanc
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. From around 1.2 hectares' worth of parcels of 10-20-year-old vines on clay soils featuring limestone and flint. The farming is certified-organic with all vineyard work and harvest done by hand. The whole clusters are pressed slowly and gently, followed by natural settling in tank...

Organic
DB0305-24

Baudry, Domaine Bernard - Chinon "Clos Guillot"
Cabernet Franc from Loire, France

100% Cabernet Franc. Close to the town of Chinon, Clos Guillot is a hillside vineyard with south-southwest exposure, near the top of the hill, with clay soils rich in yellow tuffeau (the soft local limestone) and iron. The vines were planted between 1993 and 2000. The farming is certified-organic...

Organic
DB8968-21

Baudry, Domaine Bernard - Chinon "Les Grézeaux"
Cabernet Franc from Loire, France

100% Cabernet Franc. The Grézeaux vines are the Baudry’s oldest, having been planted by Bernard B. in 1975. They lie on a flat, sandy site near the Vienne River in Cravant, very near the winery and the Les Granges vineyard. The key difference between the two sites is the presence of more clay and...

Organic
DB0306-22

Pépière

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre et Maine "Clisson"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB0676-22

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "Le Repos du Mouton"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France

100% Melon de Bourgogne. Gras Moutons is one of Pépière's classic bottlings, from a lieu-dit on a windy, south-facing slope in the Muscadet cru of Monnières-St. Fiacre. The soils are gravelly and sandy, with little clay, rich in decomposed amphibolites and gneiss.Recently, Pépière was able to add 4...

Biodynamic
DB6776-22

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

Pépière - VDP Val de Loire Cabernet Franc "La Pépiè"
Cabernet Franc from Loire, France

100% Cabernet Franc. Only 3 of Pépière's 43 certifed-biodynamic hectares of vines are planted to black grapes: Côt, Merlot and Cabernet Franc (known locally as Breton). They are in the 10-hectare "home" vineyard in Clisson, known best for the Muscadet from its granite soils de Bourgogne but where a...

Biodynamic
DB0545-23

Pépière - VDP Val de Loire Côt "La Pépiè"
Côt from Loire, France

100% Côt. Only 3 of Pépière's 43 certifed-biodynamic hectares of vines are planted to black grapes: Côt, Merlot and Cabernet Franc (known locally as Breton). They are in the 10-hectare "home" vineyard in Clisson, known best for the Muscadet from its granite soils de Bourgogne but where a gentle...

Biodynamic
DB0546-23

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine Sur Lie "La Pépie"
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
DB8905-24

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine Sur Lie "Briords-Cuvée Vieilles Vignes"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France

100% Melon de Bourgogne. Briords is a 3-hectare lieu-dit in the cru of Château Thébaud. These vines are the estate's oldest plot, planted from massale selection 60-70 years ago. The sandy clay soils are rich in granite de Thébaud, a type differing from granite de Clisson in in its higher feldspar...

Biodynamic
DB8966-24

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "Monnières-Saint Fiacre"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France

100% Melon de Bourgogne. Pépière has vines in a couple of different zones of the cru of Monnières-St.-Fiacre (including the lieu-dit of Gras Moutons which is separately bottled). The site for this bottling features 60-year-old vines on fine, sandy, gneiss-rich soils. As for all Pépière vines and...

Biodynamic
DB2005-22

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 - 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

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

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

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 "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 "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 "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

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

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 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 "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

Renardat-Fâche

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

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

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

Vergano

Vergano - Vermouth Sec
Cortese from Piedmont, Italy
Organic
DB4380-NV

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