Bordeaux: Biodynamic, Organic and Delicious!
Bordeaux: Biodynamic, Organic and Delicious!
Closeries des Moussis 2022 Haut-Médoc
What a treat - a beautiful Haut-Médoc with minimal added sulfur from certified organic and biodynamic farming! Pascale Choime and Laurence Alias of the Closeries des Moussis have a small parcel with sandy gravel soils (bordered by dense woods providing...
$45.99
Closeries des Moussis 2022 Margaux
The 2022 Closeries des Moussis Margaux was a highlight of our tastings in Angers last winter, with winemaker Laurence Alias, showing fabulous elegance and balance with beautiful length - of course quite tight and closed at the moment but showing...
$84.99
Lafon-Rochet 2019 St. Estephe "Les Pelerins"
The Chateau Lafon-Rochet "Les Pelerins" is a great success in the 2019 vintage, made with 57% merlot and 43% Cabernet Sauvignon. The estate has made a huge committment to organic methods and biodiversity in the vineyards, and is in conversion...
$36.99
Haut-Bages Liberal 2022 La Chapelle Pauillac
The lovely "second wine" of Chateau Haut-Bages Liberal in Pauillac is particularly delicious in 2022. The blend is 70% Cabernet and 30% Merlot from the estates younger vines, aged 40% in one-year barrels, 40% in concrete eggs and 20% in...
$41.99
Gruaud Larose 2022 Sarget de Gruaud Larose Saint-Julien
Gruaud Larose has implemented an impressive program of agro-ecology focused on biodiversity in the vineyard and organic and biodynamic farming, with organic conversion officially begun in 2019 and certification received in 2022. "The 2022 Sarget de Gruaud-Larose is plump, juicy...
$37.99
Ferriere 2018 Margaux 3eme Grand Cru Classé
"Chateau Ferrière was certified organic in 2015 and biodynamic in 2018. It is one of the rare Classified Growths to be biodynamic certified, not only in its vineyard, but also in the cellar. Ferrière develops its own wild yeast starter...
$71.99
Durfort-Vivens 2019 Margaux 2eme Grand Cru Classé
Durfort-Vivens is one of the few Margaux to be certified organic and Biodynamic. The 2019 is 90% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Merlot aged in new barrels and amphorae. "The subtle floral notes of the 2019 Château Durfort-Vivens give way to...
$99.99
La Gurgue 2016 Margaux
Claire Villars-Lurton (G & C Lurton of Ferriere, Haut-Bages Liberal and Durfort-Vivens) has dramatically elevated the quality of this unknown Margaux, achieving organic certification in 2016 and Biodynamic certification in 2018. "This gorgeous Margaux packs a serious punch with plenty...
$47.99
Planquette 2023 Vin de France (Medoc)
Didier Michaud created "Planquette," one of the most unique domains in Bordeaux on 1.7 hectares in the Medoc with 30 to 100 year-old vines on limestone with thin soils of clay with sand and stones. The estate has old vines...
$23.99
Peylaby 2022 Medoc Le Hérisson
The 2022 Chateau Peylaby "Le Hérisson," is a blend of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, from the northern Medoc on primarily clay/limestone snd gravel soils, vinified and bottled without SO2 and aged 8 months in anfora. This needs time to open...
$24.99
Paloumey 2022 Haut-Médoc Cru Bourgeois Superieur
Under the direction of Pierre Cazeneuve the quality of wine made at Château Paloumey only seems to get better, and this was recognised when the estate, which had been awarded Cru Bourgeois Supérieur status when the Cru Bourgeois Classification was...
$37.99
Micalet 2023 Haut Medoc Petit Verdot
Organic since 2006, Chateau Micalet now has 10 hectares on deep beds of gravel in the Haut-Medoc planted at 8,000 pieds/hectare; the normal blend is 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot - and 7% Petit Verdot, a grape the estate feels...
$21.99
Smith Haut-Lafitte 2016 Le Petit Haut-Lafitte Pessac-Leognan
"Blended at the same time as Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte, Le Petit Haut-Lafitte was crafted and aged with the same care as the estate’s Grand Vin; the entire winemaking process is exactly the same." The 2016 vintage is 60% Cabernet...
$43.99
Domaine de Chevalier 2019 Pessac-Leognan
The Domaine de Chevalier located in Léognan, the Capital town of the Graves Region, has a long history. It appears on the famous map of Pierre de Belleyme in 1783. In 1983 the estate was purchased by the Bernard Family,...
$109.99
La Grave Figeac 2022 Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
Château La Grave Figeac converted to organic farming in 2009 under owner/winemaker Laurent Clauzel. Located at the border of Saint-Emilion and Pomerol on sandy clay and gravel soils over the limestone, it's neighbors are Cheval Blanc and Figeac in Saint-Emilion...
$38.99
Fonplegade 2020 Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classé
Chateau Fonplegade's vines are situated southwest of the town of Saint-Emilion, just below Ch. Magdelaine on a steep slope of limestone with clay and sandy soils that descends from the plateau. The vines are partly in a natural amphitheater, facing...
$69.99
Daugay 2019 Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
60% Merlot, 32% Cabernet Franc, 8% Cabernet Sauvignon. Aged for 16 months in 225 L barrels, 20% new & 80% aged, as well as in old demi -muids of 600L for the Cabernets Franc. Elegant aromas of red and black...
$52.99
Daugay 2023 Saint-Emilion Rooj
The 2023 Chateau Daugay Saint-Emilion Grand Cru "Rooj" is made with Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. "Rooj" replaces the former "Pavillon" bottling, made in a more forward style for currrent drinking. The wine shows lovely red and black fruits,...
$29.99
Daugay 2024 Saint-Emilion Piou
The 2024 Chateau Daugay Saint-Emilion "Piou" (no not pee-yew or P.U. but rather a reference to a small bird or bird-call in French) is 100% Cabernet Franc, from a tiny single parcel of sandy iron-rich soils over the limestone, yielding...
$27.99
Daugay 2024 Saint-Émilion Piaf
The 2024 Chateau Daugay Saint-Émilion "Piaf" is a beautiful 100% Merlot from a 1.3 ha plot of gravelly/silty soils over the limestone, done in low temperature whole-cluster fermentation with gentle extraction. Aged on the lees for 6 months, 50% in...
$28.49
Mazeyres 2020 Pomerol Le Seuil
This Biodynamically farmed Pomerol was made with 100% Merlot in the 2020 vintage, aged half in concrete eggs, half in used barrels. The 2020 is a thoroughly enjoyable wine that highlights fruitiness and lusciousness. It offers a journey where blueberries, wild...
$41.99
Bellegrave 2019 Pomerol (Arrives 10/21)
This is 75% Merlot & 25% Cabernet Franc from the western edge of the Pomerol plateau outside of Libourne, all estate fruit. The 2019 is young but vibrant with dark fruit and some dusty pencil shavings on the nose, layered...
$83.99
Clos Puy Arnaud 2019 Castillon Cotes de Bordeaux
Clos Puy Arnaud is located at an altitude of 90 to 100 meters on an extraordinary plateau terroir. It lies on limestone with starfish fossils mixed with a few limestone veins from Castillon, located in the East continuity of Saint-Emilion....
$37.99
Peybonhomme 2022 Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux Cru Bourgeois
The Hubert family are owners of Chateau Peybonhomme-les-Tours in Blaye and Chateau La Grolet in Bourg. The farming here is among the best in Bordeaux, certified organic and biodynamic. The vineyards are a fantastic oasis of greenery compared to the...
$19.99
