Rhône Valley: Best Values, New Arrivals & Cellar Selections 2007 - 2024!
Rhône Valley: Best Values, New Arrivals & Cellar Selections 2007 - 2024!
Creve Coeur 2023 Cotes du Rhone Rouge
This beautiful Cotes du Rhone from Pablo Hocht at Creve Coeur is made from 60 to 70 year-old vines of Grenache in Biodynamic farming, with an interesting mix of semi-carbonic and traditional fermentations with whole-cluster and de-stemmed grapes. The 2023...
$14.99
Barou 2023 Syrah 'Petit Colorado' VdP Collines Rhodaniennes
The Barou Vin de Pays Syrah "Petit Colorado" is from 20 year-old vines grown on decomposed granite soils on the high plateau overlooking the Rhone, just above the AOC Saint-Joseph. "Dark red/purple color. Aromas of ripe cherry and blueberry with...
$14.99
Ferme Saint-Martin 2024 Les Romanins Cotes du Rhone
Made from hand-harvested young vines of Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault, and Mourvedre, Les Romanins is singing in 2024!Notes of crushed raspberries and currants on the nose, with lively acidity on the palate. There are some predictable Rhone characteristics of blackberry, garrigue...
$17.99
Charvin 2022 Cotes-du-Rhone "Le Poutet”
The Laurent Charvin "Le Poutet" is made from average 50 year-old vines (some are 90 years-old!) of 80% Grenache with Mourvedre, Syrah and Carignan in vineyards that abut Chateauneuf-du-Pape - Maucoil in the northwest and Campovin and Boislauzon in the...
$28.99
Charvin 2023 Cotes du Rhone Blanc
We love the Charvin CDR Blanc - always fresh, mineral and delightful, using the best southern Rhone white grapes, mostly Bourboulenc and Clairette, with soome Roussanne and Grenache Blanc. Here is drinkrhone on the delicious 2023: "clear yellow robe; this...
$25.99
Ferrand 2023 CDR "Cuvée Antique"
The Ferrand "Cuvee Antique Vieilles Vignes" has been one of our favorite Cotes du Rhones for many years, providing the complexity and depth of good Chateauneuf-du-Pape at a bargain price. 90% Grenache (late 1930s), 5% Syrah, 2% Cinsault, 2% Mourvèdre,...
$24.99
La Bouïssière 2021 Gigondas
"Thierry Faravel (of La Bouïssière ) continues to craft outstanding wines marked by balance and longevity from steep, high-elevation vineyards in Gigondas." Composed of 75 percent Grenache and 25 percent Syrah and vinified nearly all on whole cluster fruit, this...
$39.99
Gour de Chaulé 2022 "Tradition" Gigondas
The 2022 "Tradition" is 80-85% Grenache, 10-13% Syrah, 7-10% Mourvèdre, 0-5% Cinsault from 70% sandy soils on Teyssonnières, Font de Papier, Gour de Chaulé, 30% lime, red clay-limestone soils around Santa Duc, Trignon, Les Blaches, 24 plots across 10 hectares....
$43.99
Gour de Chaulé 2023 "Le Gour" Gigondas
The "Le Gour .7" is 100% Grenache, planted in the 1940s, on more sandy, less limestone soils than for the No. 8. Vinified in vat, aged in Nomblot concrete egg. "White flowers, orange blossom, fresh violets and just ripe strawberry...
$66.99
Gour de Chaulé 2023 "Numéro Huit" Gigondas
"This is a top Gigondas address, with vineyards near the sandy zones of the appellation. Under daughter Stephanie Fumoso, the wines became fresher and more elegant, and her talented son Paul is also finding finesse and purity in the wines...
$66.99
Chateau de Manissy 2023 Tavel 'Tete de Cuvée'
Produced since 1915, this is the historic cuvée of Chateau de Manissy, retaining the ancient label and the ancient methods of production, now enhanced by Biodynamic farming. Similar in style to the Tavel 'Vintage" at Domane L'Anglore, the wine is...
$26.99
Bastide Blanche 2022 Estagnol Bandol Rouge
Bastide Blanche, one of the few organic domains in Bandol, produces this beatiful wine from old vines of 94% Mourvedre and 6% Carignan. The wine is hand-harvested in multiple passes, with very low yields, fermented with wild yeasts and aged...
$31.99
Les Bruyeres 2015 Crozes-Hermitage Les Croix
The Crozes Les Croix Vieilles Vignes red is highly recommended; it includes massale selection 1950s Syrah, is a serious wine, bright and splendid. "very dark robe. The nose evokes the south – black olives, paste of cassis, some thyme, dried...
$44.99
Rousset, Stephane 2016 Crozes-Hermitage "Les Picaudieres”
Perhaps the best site in Crozes-Hermitage, "les Picaudières" is a steep, south-facing granite hill with high-density old vines, formerly owned by the legendary Raymond Roure. 2016 is a great vintage for "Les Picaudières," showing fabulous elegance and purity of fruit....
$34.99
Rousset, Stephane 2017 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....
$34.99
Rousset, Stephane 2018 Crozes-Hermitage "Les Picaudieres”
In 2018 Stephane fermented more with whole clusters to bring freshness and structure in this very ripe year. The wine shows a deep red/black color with an elegant melange of ripe blackberry, black cherry and blueberry with bitter chocolate, black...
$34.99
Bonnefond 2021 Cote-Rotie "Cote Rozier"
Patrick and Christophe Bonnefond make very pure, concentrated wines (both Condrieu and Côte-Rôtie) with the top cuvées, Rochains and Côte Rozier, both adjoining La Landonne on either side, built for long aging. The 2021 is from S-E facing schist on...
$49.99
Bonnefond 2021 Cote-Rotie "Les Rochins"
Patrick and Christophe Bonnefond make very pure, concentrated wines (both Condrieu and Côte-Rôtie) with the top cuvées, Rochins and Côte Rozier, both adjoining La Landonne on either side, built for long aging, but enjoyable young. "Les Rochins" is a 2...
$49.99
Gripa 2021 Saint-Peray "Les Pins"
The lovely Gripa "Les Pins" is approximately 60% Marsanne and 40% Roussanne from both granite and limestone terroirs. 2021 is an excellent vintage for the Gripa Saint-Perays, with vibrant fruit and food-friendly acidity. "The wine shows a flinty yellow colour;...
$41.99
Gripa 2021 Saint-Peray "Les Figuiers"
This little-known wine from Bernard and Fabrice Gripa is one of the most delicious and fascinating white wines of the Northern Rhône. From 50 to 60 yeal-old vines in Saint-Peray, on granite soils, 60% Roussanne and 40% Marsanne. The 2021...
$59.99
