Northern Rhone
Northern Rhone
Amphores 2023 Condrieu La Côte
The Domaine des Amphores Condrieu is 100% massale-selection Viognier from 0.5 hectares on poor granite-based soils at 250 metres on "La Côte" at Chavanay. The 2023 La Côte has a pale yellow gold robe. The nose offers a subtle and...
$47.99
Barou 2023 Saint-Joseph Un Autre Monde
Domaine Barou has been organic since the 1970s and also produces cherries, apricots and peaches. The Saint-Joseph vines (all Syrah of course) are in Limony, on thin granite soils, and are 25 to 50 years old. Shallow plowing ("griffage") is...
$25.99
Paris, Vincent 2020 Cornas La Geynale
"dark robe, has lustre. The nose holds back, gives a promising front of well embedded black fruits, discreet floral, musky violet airs, has a fresh outer note, herbs and smoke, is an airborne opening. The palate is suave, stylishly coated,...
$84.99
Amphores 2024 IGP Les Iris Viognier
We love Condrieu, but Viognier from other regions can often be cloying and uninteresting. This example from the Grenier family in Chavanay, however, is elegant and outstanding. It comes from Viognier vines just south of the Condrieu AOC, always tended...
$22.99
Rousset, Stephane 2023 Crozes-Hermitage Rouge Les Méjeans
The Rousset 2023 Crozes "Les Méjeans" is a superb new cuvée made with Syrah from 60 year-old vines on a granite terroir near the village of Crozes. The aromas are bright and pretty with black fruits, the palate is dense...
$29.99
Barou 2024 Rendez-Vous Marsanne Vin de Pays Collines Rhodaniennes
The Barou family family makes delicious wines, and grows cherries and apricots on their mixed-use organic estate in Charnas, in the northern section of the AOC Saint-Joseph. Their 2024 Vin de Pays Marsanne "Rendez-Vous" is a simply superb everyday wine!...
$17.99
Barou 2024 Saint-Joseph Un Autre Monde
Domaine Barou has been organic since the 1970s and also produces cherries, apricots and peaches. The Saint-Joseph vines (all Syrah of course) are in Limony, on thin granite soils, and are 25 to 50 years old. Shallow plowing ("griffage") is...
$26.99
Rousset, Stephane 2023 Crozes-Hermitage Rouge
100% Syrah from 40 - 50 year-old vines on hillside vineyards in Erôme, Gervans and Crozes, on mostly granite hillsides and clay/limestone soils as well, all on hillsides, some quite steep. A true wine of the granite terroirs. "this has...
$24.99
Barou 2024 Condrieu Les Mains D'Or
The new Barou Condrieu "Les Mains D'Or" is a beautiful wine, raised in amphora, showing lovely very floral, white fruit and citrus aromas. The palate is delicate, elegant and silky with fabulous purity of whte and yellow fruits with a...
$49.99
Barou 2024 Viognier Bonne Étoile VdP Collines Rhodaniennes Viognier
From 30 year-old Viognier vines in Charnas, just outside the Condrieu AOC, always tended organically. Pale gold color, lovely aromas of lime-flower, lemon, mango, pear and spice, quite pretty and subtle. The palate is refreshingly light and balanced with lemon,...
$21.99
Rousset, Stephane 2022 Crozes-Hermitage "Les Picaudieres"
Les Picaudières is perhaps the best vineyard in Crozes-Hermitage, formerly owned by Raymond Roure and now tended by Stéphane Rousset. It's a steep slope of granite terraces, isolated in an oak forest facing due south and protected from the wind....
$33.99
Amphores 2023 Saint-Joseph "Les Sept Lieux"
The Amphores "7 Lieux" is from vines planted in the 90's, always organic, and from parcels of old vines, converted to organic, in Chavanay, just south of Condrieu. Philippe and Veronique Grenier have always farmed organically and now they are...
$25.99
Dard & Ribo 2024 Crozes-Hermitage Blanc
50-67% Roussanne (1986), 33-50% Marsanne (1986) from red clay, stony, some granite soils on Les Bâties (Les Murettes for the boys) at Larnage, same soils as Les Rocoules at Hermitage, fermented, raised 25% new, 75% 1-3 year 228-litre & 600-litre...
$69.99
Dard & Ribo 2025 Crozes-Hermitage Rouge C'est le Printemps
"Syrah (50% 1970s, 50% 1996) from La Grace on the plain at Mercurol, clay with sand and a lot of rolled stones, very precocious vineyard, with Meridional influences, so an extravagant Syrah, a little Syrah from Les Bâties at Larnage...
$49.99
Dard & Ribo 2024 Saint-Joseph Rouge
Syrah 50% from sandy granite on Pitrou at St-Jean-de-Muzols (1940s-1950s Syrah) and 50% from hard granite, quartz, red clay, alluvial stones on Les Champs at Tournon (1960s Syrah), sandy granite at Vion (1970), whole bunch fermentation, pumping overs, aged used...
$74.99
Rousset, Stéphane 2024 Crozes-Hermitage Marsanne Vieilles Vignes
This is an oustanding Marsanne from vines planted in 1933 and 1965, aged in 10% new, 90% 1 - 3 year-old 400 liter barrels, 8 months on the lees, no batonnage. The 2024 Vieilles Vignes is an outstanding wine showing...
$34.99
Amphores 2023 Saint-Joseph Les Mésanges
"Les Mésanges" is a cuvée of Saint-Joseph made from 30 to 50 year-old organic Syrah vines on biotite granite soils in the vineyards of "Pecher" and "Vauturerie" at Chavanay, 30 - 40% whole cluster, aged 18 months in 600 liter...
$29.99
