Loire Valley Whites
Loire Valley Whites
Grandes Vignes 2018 Le Malabé Bonnezeaux
The current fashion in Anjou is to make dry wines on the great terroirs formerly used to produce some of the finest sweet wines in the world. Here we have have a classic sweet wine from the outstanding Domaine Les...
$52.99
Tabordet 2023 "Petites Aubues" Pouilly-Fumé
Domaine Tabordet has 13 hectares in Pouilly-Fumé in the communes of Villiers and Saint-Laurent-L'Abbaye on Kimmeridgiam marl, Caillottes and Silex soils. The estate is certified organic and Biodynamic (Demeter), vinifies with indigenous yeasts and uses minimal amounts of SO2. "Petites...
$31.99
Pinon 2023 Vouvray Buvez du Bon Pinon
From the estate's website: "This is the renaissance of a cuvée created by my great-grandfather - a dry wine from our oldest parcel, planted in 1945 on soils of silex noir and vinfied in our oldest foudres - old 'tonneaux'...
$31.99
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
Batardière 2024 Les Cocus VDF
Les Cocus comes from a single parcel planted in 1968, which sits atop a hillside comprised of clay schist soils with good wind exposure. Here we find a very typical Anjou terroir with all of the schists, black, purple, and...
$59.99
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
Delmee, Philippe 2024 Pablo est au Bar VDF Chenin
'Pablo est au bar' is a funny name, especially with the Pablo Escobar-esque character on the label, who seems to be gorging himself on grapes. It is also a bit of a suggestion for the bistro style of this Chenin...
$24.99
Delmee, Philippe 2024 Ch'nins on Boit VDF Chenin
Vinified in small barrels, and then aged in a large old barrel, this is a broad and subtle revealilng expression of Chenin. Very Anjou, with ripeness, mineral-driven sharpness and structure from the schist soils. . On the palate, it has...
$34.99
Delmee, Philippe 2024 Ch'nins on Boit VDF Chenin 1.5L
Vinified in small barrels, and then aged in a large old barrel, this is a broad, 'leesy' expression. Very Anjou, with ripeness and mineral-driven sharpness and structure from the schist soils. This firm mineral backbone gives structure and lingers long...
$74.99
Boulay, Gerard 2025 Sancerre Chavignol
Gerard Boulay is certainly one of the greatest producers in Sancerre. His Sancerre "domaine" comes from average 35 year-old vines on kimmeridgian limestone soils on the hills surrounding the village of Chavignol. 2025 is a superb vintage in Sancerre bringing...
$49.99
Boudignon 2023 Clos de la Hutte Savennières
Out of the 3 communes of production allowed for Savennières - Bouchemaine, Savennières (and the hamlet of Épiré), La Possonnière - the last one has been overlooked for some time, not having any benchmark producers or famous vineyards and today...
$124.99
Delrieu-Ducleux 2024 La Joue Blanc VDF
La Joue is a natural Chenin Blanc from younger vines planted in 1976 on typical schist soils of the Anjou region. The wine is fresh with nice cut and a lovely mouthfeel, albeit less dense and voluptuous than their old...
$29.99
Chidaine, François 2024 Montlouis Les Bournais
This is our favorite wine from François and Manuela Chidaine, long-time champions of organic and biodynamic farming in the Loire Valley. Named after the soil type "Les Bournais," a unique clay topsoil over limestone (tuffeau blanche) also found across the...
$54.99
Landron, Jo 2025 Muscadet Amphibolite
Amphibolite - a metamorphic stone generally formed from gabbro or basalt, with a high concentration of iron and magnesium, prevalent in the vineyard, over a bedrock of gneiss. The wine from this vineyard is low in alcohol and high in...
$24.99
Pépière 2025 Muscadet Serve et Maine sur Lie La Pépie
100% Melon de Bourgogne. Classic Muscadet, primarily from granite soils with a small percentage on gneiss. 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...
$18.49
Roche Bleue 2023 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...
$29.99
Pépière 2025 Muscadet Sèvre et Maine Briords Vieilles Vignes
First produced in 1988, this great Muscadet is made from a three hectare parcel of old massale-selection vines (all over 60 years old, with a high percentage much older) on a slope above the Maine. The bedrock is Granite de...
$25.99
Tue-Boeuf 2025 VDF Petit Buisson
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 40-45 year-old vines on flinty clay-limestone soils,...
$30.99
Morin, Pierre 2024 Sancerre Vieilles Vignes
The Pierre Morin Vieilles Vignes cuvée comes from vines in Bué mostly planted on caillottes, the very fractured, stony-pebbly limestone terroir often of Oxfordian origin, but with some vines on Kimmeridgian soils as well. The wine is the paradigm of...
$38.99
Jousset 2023 Menu Pineau Vin de France
The Lise and Betrand Jousset 2023 Menu Pineau (aka Orbois) is a balanced and beautiful expression of this unusual grape, complete with a whimsical label by Michel Tolmer. A probable native of the Loire, similar to Meslier according to some,...
$31.99
Jousset 2024 Nagori Chenin Blanc
Nagori is a Chenin Blanc made in collaboration between Lise and Bertrand Jousset and their friends Catherine and Hervé Bourdon in Saint-Pierre-de-Quiberon, in Brittany. It is lean but has surprising depth and length in the mouthfeel, along with saline/sea-spray influence...
$36.99
Jousset 2024 Vilain P'tit Ch'nin VDF
The Jousset Vilain P'tit Ch'nin is a delightfully fresh and delicious Chenin Blanc at a great price. The wine shows bright citrus, pear, honeysuckle, fines herbs and stone aromas. The palate is vibrant and refreshing with white stones, pear, key...
$25.99
