French Essentials 20% Off Weekend Sale
French Essentials 20% Off Weekend Sale
Goiset, Pierre 2025 Pet Nat L'Intranquille
This is 100% Merlot done in methode ancestrale style, hand-harvested with light crushing and pressed as whole clusters over eight hours, which gives just the faintest hint of color to the finished wine. It is aged on the lees in...
$24.99
Parentière 2023 Muscadet Serve et Maine Vieilles Vignes
Michel and Guilhaume Ménager produce this lovely Musacdet on their tiny estate near Vallet, which they have tended organically for more than 40 years. The sub-soil is gabbro, a type of basalt, that gives a unique aromatic quality to the...
$16.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Cote de Beaune "Clos des Topes Bizot" Blanc
"Le Clos des Topes Bizot" is a unique spot, high on the slope in Beaune just above the 1er Cru "L'Ecu," facing east, in a terroir of clay and pebbles over limestone. Harvested by hand into small crates, slow fermentation...
$43.99
Lapuyade 2023 Jurancon Sec
Clos Marie-Louise/Château Lapuyade is a beautiful biodynamic estate deep in the hills of Jurançon, south of Pau. Their wines are harvested by hand, fermented with wild yeasts and aged in old barrels purchased from Yquem and Haut-Brion. This bottle, based...
$18.99
Champs de l'Abbaye 2023 Cote Chalonnaise Blanc "Les Amourettes"
The Champs de l'Abbaye "Les Amourettes" is a lovely Chardonnay from limestone terroir in Aluze, next to Mercurey. Notes of ripe yellow apple and pear waft from the glass, with aromas of toasted almond and candied angelica. Juicy tropical fruit...
$34.99
Roche Bleue NV (23/24) Jasnieres Sec
A blend of 2023 and 2024 vintages, this was a standout from an early 2026 tasting with Sebastien and Janneke from Domaine de la Roche Bleue. 2024 was a sharper and lower alcohol vintage for the Jasnières Sec, but as...
$31.99
Grandes Vignes 2021 Les Mailles A L'Endroit
A perfectly bone-dry Chenin Blanc from soils that are a mix of degraded gray schist (schiste grezeaux), sandstone and talc. Very chiseled and stony, mineral... ideal! This is a relatively new cuvée for the domaine, and a welcome addition to...
$31.99
Source du Ruault 2023 Saumur Blanc Salut a Toi
Jean-Noêl Millon at La Source du Ruault has 13 hectares on turonian limestone in Saumur-Champigny, organic since 2007 and using biodynamic methods. The 2023 "Salut a Toi" is Chenin Blanc, age in concrete "eggs" showing very pretty Chenin aromas and...
$19.99
Source du Ruault 2021 Saumur Blanc La Coulée D'Aunis
Jean-Noêl Millon at La Source du Ruault has 13 hectares on turonian limestone in Saumur-Champigny, organic since 2007 and using biodynamic methods. The Source du Ruault "Coulée D'Aunis" is from a beautiful south-facing vineyard near the Loire river on Turonian...
$27.99
Batardiere 2024 L'Esprit Libre VDF
L'Esprit Libre is from different parcels in the village of Rablay from vines aging from 15-90 years old, with plateaus of sandy soil and gravely soils of quartz over schist. More specifically, it's quartz, gravel and magma mixed with big...
$52.99
Batardiere 2024 Grand Clos
Grand Clos is a relatively new Chenin bottling from Marie-Lise and Thomas, from young vines they planted in Rablay-sur-Layon. The terroir here is a type of decomposed brown schiste referred to as "causse," which feels (and looks) like soil. The...
$52.99
Fossile 2025 Chinon Le Rosé
Domaine du Fossile is the new name for Domaine Patrick Lambert in Chinon, under new owners Moira Smullen and Chris Marshall. Monsieur Lambert stays on as winemaker/consultant and Matthieu Baudry has provided essential advice so this team seems on track...
$15.99
Laguerre 2025 Eos Rosé Cotes du Roussillon
The Laguerre Eos Rosé is light and fresh, made from Grenache Gris and Grenache Noir and it's really delicious! It shows a pretty, pale pink color with subtle aromas of rose and raspberry. The palate is bright, silky and round...
$15.99
Chemins de L'Arkose 2024 Cotes d'Auvergne Corent Rosé
Old vines of Gamay D'Auvergne grown on volcanic cinders on the volcano of Corent, direct press. Opened the day it arrived from France, showing a slightly opaque light pink/orange color, with pretty aromas of raspberry, orange zest, minerals. Bright and...
$18.99
Exeterra 2024 Vin de France Grouge
This was one of the more unique and surprising wines we tried during our visit to France in February, a blend of equal parts Pinot Noir and skin-contact Gewurztraminer. It drinks like a light red but with bright peachy aromatics...
$26.99
Chemins de L'Arkose 2024 Côtes D'Auvergne Les Domes
Gamay D'Auvergne, 75 year-old and young vines, grown on basalt terroir on the north face of the volcano of Corent. Destemmed, short maceration. The 2024 "Les Dômes" shows a dense garnet color with aromas of black cherry, blackberry, earth and...
$17.99
Perrin, Celine 2023 Ladoix Les Briquottes
The Perrin Ladoix "Briquottes" is from another part of the quarries that used to cover this slope, just below the 1er Cru "Les Grechons" - the stone was cut into "briques" that were wrapped in paper and put between the...
$38.99
Perrin 2023 Aloxe-Corton "Les Boutières"
The Perrin Aloxe-Corton "Les Boutières" is from a parcel at the southern tip of Aloxe-Corton, bordering Chorey and Savigny-les-Beaune. The name refers to an ancient road that continued up though Savigny and Pernand-Vergelesses used by mule-drivers carrying "boutes' - goat-skins...
$47.99
Tabordet 2023 Sancerre Rouge
The 2023 Tabordet Sancerre Rouge is 100% Pinot Noir grown on two parcels ("Champs de la Noue" and "Pichon") on Kimmeridgian marl soils. Biodynamic and organic certified, hand harvested with a 21-day cuvaison, 20% whole-cluster, wild-yeast fermentation and elevage in...
$29.99
Delrieu-Ducleux 2024 Les Saint Martin
The 2024 Delrieu-Ducleux "Les Saint Martins" Rouge is made from 100% Grolleau from vines planted in 1955 on gravel soils over schist. While not a heavy wine, there is some density and depth here, with darker cherry and blackberry fruit...
$24.99
Fossile 2023 Chinon Les Battereaux
Domaine du Fossile is the new name for Domaine Patrick Lambert in Chinon, under new owners Moira Smullen and Chris Marshall. The delicious Chinon "Les Battereaux" is from 75 year-old vines on sandy clay soils over limestone. Hand harvested and...
$18.99
Fossile 2022 Chinon 'Ame D'Antan'
Domaine du Fossile is the new name for Domaine Patrick Lambert in Chinon, under new owners Moira Smullen and Chris Marshall. This beautiful Chinon is from 65 to 70-year-old vines in sandy clay soils over limestone in Sonnay, near Cravant....
$29.99
Source du Ruault 2023 Saumur-Champigny Rouge
Jean-Noêl Millon at La Source du Ruault has 13 hectares on turonian limestone in Saumur-Champigny, organic since 2007 and using biodynamic methods. The "regular" Saumur-Champigny is from younger vines on clay and sandy soils over the limestone; the wine is...
$19.99
