New Arrivals from the Loire Valley: Muscadet, Chenin and More...
New Arrivals from the Loire Valley: Muscadet, Chenin and More...
Landron 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
Landron, Jo 2020 Muscadet Sevre et Maine Le Fief du Breil
Jo Landron's "Fief du Breil" is always one of our favorite Muscadet, coming from a beautiful, walled vineyard sloping towards the Sèvre, with clay, sand and quartz stones over a bedrock of orthogneiss. The vines average 40 to 50+ years...
$34.99
Luneau-Papin 2022 Muscadet Sèvre et Maine "L" d'Or Granit Vallet
2022 is another superb vintage for the Luneau-Papin "L" d'Or in a ripe, dense style but with lovely brightness as well, making it it a superb Muscadet for current drinking and long-term aging. The wine shows a fairly ripe gold...
$37.99
Luneau-Papin 2023 Muscadet Sèvre et Maine Vera Cruz
We loved the first vintage of Vera Cruz in 2015, then a new cuvée from Luneau-Papin, from 50 year-old vines on a terroir of schistes and gneiss "a deux micas" in Vallet, farmed with organic and biodynamic methods. The 2023...
$36.99
Pépière 2022 Muscadet Cru Château Thébaud
The Cru Château Thébaud comes from old vines in vineyards with great terroir on slopes overlooking the river Maine, primarily in the "Clos des Morines." The granite here (Granite de Château Thébaud, oddly enough) is fissured and permeable by the...
$32.99
Pépière 2023 Muscadet Cru Clisson
Beginning in 2005, Domaine de la Pépière has produced this cuvée from a small parcel of 50 to 110 year-old vines within the Pepiere vineyard. Originally called "Granite de Clisson" after the unique bedrock in the vineyard, Marc changed the...
$32.99
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
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
Delrieu-Ducleux 2024 Le Jeau Blanc
Le Jeau Blanc from Julien Delrieu and Thibaut Ducleux is their top Chenin Blanc from a hillside parcel close to Les Nourissons of Stephane Bernaudeau, planted in 1955 on schist soils. The vines are all massale selection. The wine ferments...
$41.99
Boudignon 2024 Anjou Blanc
*Please note pricing is net, matching the price of the previous vintage, with no discount* Thibaud Boudignon is an established star in the Loire Valley wine scene, especially amongst lovers of Chenin Blanc from the schist vineyards of Anjou, and...
$51.99
Boudignon 2023 A Francois(e) Anjou Blanc
A tribute to his mother, A François(e) comes from a historic plot of St-Lambert-du-Lattay previously dedicated to liquoreux (sweet) wines. A selection of the heart of the plot and the best barrels - the rest is blended in the regular...
$79.99
Boudignon 2023 La Vigne Cendrée Savennières (Arrives 6/3)
This is a relatively new release for Thibaud. In 2011 he managed to rent a superb 0.5 ha isolated plot at the bottom of the Roche aux Moines on the Savennières side near the Châteu de Varennes. The land used...
$114.99
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
Boudignon 2023 Clos de la Hutte **Franc de Pied** (Arrives 6/3)
"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...
$339.99
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
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
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
Chidaine, François 2023 Montlouis les Choisilles
Les Choisilles is vinified dry, from parcels of 30 to 90 year-old vines on clay and silica soils over limestone "tuffeau." The soils are kept "green," beneficial plants grow in the rows and only organic composts are used. Fermentation of...
$44.99
Chidaine, François 2024 Vin de France Baudoin
Francois and Manuel Chidaine have led a revival of quality in Montlouis over the last twenty-five years and are now making outstanding Vouvrays from the former Poniatowski vineyards in Vouvray. The Chidaine's vinyeard work is among the finest in France...
$54.99
Chidaine, François 2024 Vin de France Les Argiles
The Chidaine Vin de France "Les Argiles" (actually Vouvray) "is a blend of various plots surrounding the Clos Baudoin, including L’Espagnole, Le Haut Lieu, La Chatterie, L’Homme and La Reugnières. The clay here is deeper than in the Clos, giving...
$40.99
Chidaine, Francois 2022 Vin de France (Vouvray) Petillant
Rarely available in the US, the remarkable Chidaine 2022 Vin de France Petillant (Vouvray) with the bubbly green label is a delightful wine! My notes are sketchy, with "delightful" being the main idea. Super nose, palate elegant, dry, long -...
$37.99
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
