New shipments have arrived from some of our favorite estates in France, just in time for your end-of-year festivities! (Many of these unique and distinctive wines are available in the US only at Chambers Street)
 
We'd like to lead-off with the unusually delicious wines from the Clos des Gravillas in the Languedoc. Each one of these new arrivals from Gravillas is just simply outstanding - coming from a high altitude plateau of crushed limestone, and made with local and heirloom varieties, the wines offer unique, extremely mineral flavors and vibrant fruit in a wide variety of fascinating styles. Jancis Robinson.com is a big fan, as we see in this beautifully written review by  Tamlyn Currin of the 2023 orange wine, "A Fleur de Peau" -  "...gorgeous, spine-tingling...racing ginger and tumeric spices expolding with fireworks of intensity and drama. Quice and honey and saffron. Clementine peel and candied lemon. Angelica and fennel flowers. Fennel seed. Treacle. Iodine. Changing every second in the mouth. But full of fullness and full of charm. So exciting that one sip and you're buzzing, two and you're Alice down a rabbit hole where the magic happens and everything is possible."  We encourage you to try all the delightful wines from the Clos des Gravillas - and they are fabulous values!
 
Anther special mention goes to the new vintage from Planquette - one of the most unique domains in Bordeaux - 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 of Merlot Queue Rouge and massale selection Cabernet Sauvignon, farmed organically with just a little compost and shallow plowing. Vinification with wild yeasts, no extraction and zero added sulfur. 85% aged in barrels (none new) for 14 months and 15% in amphora. This is one of the most "natural" and deliciously old-fashioned wines of Bordeaux.
 
And we're really happy to have Domaine de Roally back in the store, a wine we have loved since the 1990s, which passed from Henri Goyard to Jean Thevenet and his son Gautier. Along with the wines of Guillemot-Michel, it is one of the most authentic and delicious wines of the Macon! Not to mention the amazing Pouilly-Fuissé "Pierrefolle" of Chateau des Rontets!
 
There are some outstanding Beaujolais in today's email, including the rare and beautiful 2018 Georges Descombes Morgon "Vermont" and the last few cases of the wonderful 2022 Desvignes Morgon "Chateau Gaillard!"
 
The Biodynamic Languedoc wines of Zelige-Caravent are finally back in the store...
 
For our Loire Valley fans, anyone who loves Muscadet should grab the great 2019 Pépière Chateau Thébaud before it's gone. Also of note, new Chinons from Domaine Fossile (formerly on the shelf as Patrick Lambert), all the colors of the rainbow from Lise et Bertrand Jousset in Montlouis (and beyond), and our favorite pure juice wines from Christophe Foucher (La Lunotte) are back, with the delicious Ormeaux Gamay a wild, fresh and incredibly "gulpable" natural red.