A great value Vouvray from Vincent Careme, a profound Tavel from Chateau de Manissy, and more... for Spring & Summer enjoyment!
A great value Vouvray from Vincent Careme, a profound Tavel from Chateau de Manissy, and more... for Spring & Summer enjoyment!
Vincent Careme is one of the finest producers in the Loire Valley - his 2022 Vouvray Sec beautifully captures the great terroir and this excellent vintage - and at a very modest price! The Chateau de Manissy Tavel "Tete de Cuvée" is always one of our favorite rosés of the year, and the just-released 2022 is quite astonishing, with fabulous complextiy and length - for drinking over the next ten years! Some of our favorite Chenin Blancs and rosés round out today's offer....
Careme 2022 Vouvray Sec
We have always been fans of Vincent Careme, who is one of the nicest vignerons we know - and he makes terrific wines as well! His 2022 Sec is a lovely and vibrant very dry Vouvray that is simply delicious...
$23.99
Chateau de Manissy 2022 Tavel "Tete de Cuvée"
Produced since 1915, this is the historic cuvée of Chateau de Manissy, retaining the ancient label and the ancient methods of production, now enhanced by Biodynamic farming. Similar in style to the Tavel 'Vintage" at Domane L'Anglore, the wine is...
$25.99
Careme, Vincent 2021 Vouvray Le Clos
The 2021 "Le Clos" from Vincent Careme is from a great "premiere cote" vineyard of very thin clay soils over the turonian limestone. This is one of the best wines of Vouvray - it was brilliant as a demi-sec in...
$35.99
Domaine aux Moines 2018 Savennieres Roche Aux Moines
The yield in this vintage was 35 hl/ha, a relief after the frost of 2017. It was vinified half in barrels and half in cuve, and then aged in barrels for two years before assemblage in cuve. It was bottled...
$53.99
Grange Tiphaine 2022 Montlouis-sur-Loire Clef de Sol Blanc
Coralie and Damien Delecheneau make beautiful organic wines in Montlouis and Touraine. Their Clef de Sol means treble clef and is a tribute to music, Damien being an accomplished clarinetist and Coralie a choir singer. Clef de Sol is a...
$35.99
Roche Bleue 2022 Jasnieres Sec
100% Chenin Blanc, from 20 to 35 year-old vines on a slope of clay/silex soils on limestone, certified organic. Slow pressing of whole clusters; long fermentations, most in 4 to 6 year-old barriques, the younger vines in cuve inox; élevage...
$28.99
Boulay, Gerard 2022 Sancerre Rose Sibylle
From 35-40 year old Pinot Noir vines on the steep hillsides in front of the Boulay home in Chavignol. Unlike many Sancerre Roses, Gerard harvests his Pinot specifically to make rose by direct press, then into tank. It is not...
$19.99
Clos du Joncuas 2022 Gigondas Rose
This is a beautiful Gigondas Rosé from our organic friends at Clos du Joncuas. Pretty bright pink color, aromas of raspberry, tart cherry, blood orange, peach skin and rose. Full palate with silky raspberry, peach, citrus and mineral flavors and...
$18.99
Charvin 2022 Cotes du Rhone Rose
The gorgeous 2022 Charvin Rosé is from a 1.5 ha parcel of about 50% Grenache, 50% Cinsault, sometimes with some Bourboulenc and Mourvèdre that averages just 35hL/ha annually. Organically farmed and entirely harvested by hand with sorting done in the...
$16.99
Morin, Pierre 2022 Sancerre Rose
The youthful Pierre Morin makes some of the finest Sancerre reds and rosés, from Pinot Noir grown on limestone "caillottes" soils in and around Bué. The 2022 rosé is high-toned, chiseled, mineral, and chalky like the more familiar Sancerre blanc...
$27.99
Zafeirakis 2021 Tyrnavos (Thessaly) Limniona Rose
From sandy soils with high amounts of flint in Thessaly at the foothills of Mount Olympus. Made from the region's indigenous red grape Limniona, the 300 meter altitude vinyards imbue the wine with high acidity and it's flint with minerality....
$13.99
Casaretti 2021 Bardolino Classico Rosa dei Casaretti
This lovely rosato is 70% Corvina, 20% Rondinella, and 10% Molinara, from organically tended vines on the shore of Lake Garda in the Veneto. Soils are rocky with clay. 12-36 hour maceration before natural fermentation. Aged in stainless steel. In...
$17.99
