There is a diverse approach to viticulture and winemaking, including increasing environmental considerations. There are many opinions and philosophies at play and many terms used, such as organic (certified or practicing), sustainable farming, biodynamic (certified or practicing) and natural winemaking (native yeast, limited to no added SO2). The french use a term we like called “lute raisonnée” translated as “a reasonable fight” or “supervised control.” This is considered a more pragmatic approach to farming where biodiversity in the vineyards is encouraged through the use of cover-crops, use of manures and natural composts to fertilize the vines. These organic methodologies can offer a happy medium to official governmental certification which can present unwanted financial or bureaucratic challenges to the small winery or vigneron.
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Les Brûlées is a south-east facing lieu-dit in central Nuits-Saint-George, located directly beneath Les Poirets 1er Cru. Bright red berries fill the palate with hints of blackcurrant and spice notes. Powerful and structured with a long finish. Biodynamic farming.
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Harmand’s Gevrey-Chambertin, produced from four hectares worth of holdings scattered throughout the appellation. The 2021 vintage offers a thick, assertive entry and sappy depth of fruit, but the minerality here is notable and precise nonetheless. The wine has all but...
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Harmand’s Gevrey-Chambertin, vieilles vignes (old vines) bottling boasts a vine age of up to 90 years and these old vines really make themselves known as among the most powerful wines in the Harmand-Geoffroy cellar. The old vines create dark, almost somber...
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This is small batch, artisan-made wine from Saint Romain by the Buisson family. From a lieu-dit that is highly regarded for its Chardonnay. The soil is a classic mix of clay and limestone offering that profound mineral punch. The grapes...
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This wonderful Beaujolais-Villages offers the scent of fresh-cut flowers that lead into savory and vibrant red fruits of strawberry and snappy cranberry. Delicious! Made as a natural wine.
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This family domaine does everything by hand. The style is one of purity, elegance and finesse. This 1er Cru offers gorgeously textured and highly seductive flavors of white flowers, honeysuckle and mint. This wine is superbly complex and balanced. Don't...
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Savory raspberries and currants are balanced with a meaty, firm underpinning. The wine is both elegant and brooding, in possession of both good structure and substance. This is old-school and delicious! This multi-generational family domaine follows traditional vinification and elevage...
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Bright and fresh, with signature limestone minerality and bright acidity all wrapped around a core of lemon citrus notes. This wine is ideal paired with fish, shellfish or goat cheese, or as an aperitif. Practicing organic farming.
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The Rollin family produces a textbook and delicious Aligote from a 60+ year-old plot. The wine is bright and markedly chalky with a mouthwateringly clean finish of citrus zest and salinity. The palate is round and generous but the acidity...
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Bold, dense and loaded with black fruits. Hints of sage, huckleberry, and pepper will tantalize your taste buds with attractive berry fruit up front, and finishes with a hint of licorice and spice.
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100% Syrah. Organically farmed from a small family domaine in this famous Northern Rhone region. Bottled unfiltered, this wine offers layers of beautiful old-world fruit with tons of character. Both lush & bright, with a brambly nature and loads of...
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Savory notes of smoked meat and violet with hints of black pepper combine beautifully in the glass. With the 2021 vintage, Etienne began producing an IGP-designated Syrah in order to offer a regionally typical wine at a super-friendly price. The...
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Farmed sustainably, fermented with 100% native yeast and crafted with minimal intervention in the cellar, Flowers Pinot Noir is a pure expression of the rugged and extreme California Sonoma Coast. Red currents, earthy forest floor, bergamot and sea breeze. A...
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A traditional dry Alsatian style Riesling that is clean and elegant with stone fruit and mineral notes. Although very dry, this wine is Incredibly food-friendly with fish, white meat, Asian cuisine and hors d'oeuvres. Certified organic.
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Brisk, bright and energetic with fresh and floral notes in a dry style. There is a subtle salinity to this wine that seems to remind one as to just how close the vineyards are to the Adriatic Sea - plus...
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The estate owns a prime 0.71ha parcel of 70-year vines that cuts across the “Les Drazey” and “Les Bussieres” vineyards in Chambolle-Musigny, just below the 1er Cru “Les Sentiers”. The finesse of this wine speaks of the Chambolle pedigree, though...
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94 POINTS, James Suckling. "Amazing concentration of clean red fruit and soil here, together with tangy wild herbs and something citrus. You can almost smell the volcano! Medium-to full-bodied with a dense core of fruit and quite challenging tannins for...
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Les Caillerets 1er Cru is a 10.68 ha vineyard made up of several lieux-dits, and as its name implies, is in possession of stony poor soils. It is considered the leading premier cru in the village. The wine reveals a...
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From the 9.41 ha 1er Cru Vergers vineyard. The Bedrock is close to the surface and therefore wines from Vergers can be nervy, especially when young. Racy and lively, with complex notes of tea, peony flowers, honeysuckle and almond. Aging...
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Hen of the Wood's special house bottling from Anne Amie Winery. 100% Pinot Noir from the Willamette Valley. Bright and savory dark berry fruit with fantastic spice notes and signature earth. Aged 10 months in French oak. Certified Sustainable farming. ...
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This house white from Hen of the Wood is a proprietary blend produced by Anne Amie Vineyard. A whole bunch of varietals make up this tasty, fresh and zesty custom blend. Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Viognier, Chardonnay, Muller-Thurgau and Gewurztraminer, this...
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Zingy fruit that jumps from the glass. There is a laser-like precision to this wine thanks to the mineral foundation that allows the soft fruit to remain crisp and refreshing. This is all thanks to the limestone terroir that is...
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Lip-smacking-good traditional Bourgogne Rouge. This tasty and fresh Burgundy is made to drink early (and often). The Prudhons own a total of 0.7 hectares of 15-to-40-year-old Pinot Noir in this vineyard which lies just outside Saint-Aubin. No new oak is...
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This is an excellent example of value, which is hard to find in Red Burgundy. This is small lot, traditionally crafted Premier Cru from the Prudhon family. This is a well-structured wine which emphasizes the raciness of Saint Aubin. The...
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Take a top small production "artisan" producer, get his best vineyard site and arguably one of his best vintages, and what do you get? In our opinion, a simply stunning example of Oregon Pinot Noir. Located in the Red Hills...
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Very small production, artisanal producer. This 2021 from Oregon's Willamette Valley, features lush and bright dark berry fruits with cleansing minerals balanced with a soft and silky finish. This wine is drinking beautifully right now! Practicing organic farming and viticulture.
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The Lignier family owns a 0.4-hectare parcel of Aligoté in Gevrey-Chambertin proper, planted in 1944, and this wine offers a salty, racy profile of blasted chalk and golden fruit. It is a restrained, finely wrought Aligoté that avoids some of...
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Trilogie is produced from small holdings of very old plantings in three different Morey-Saint-Denis lieux-dits: Chenevery, Clos Solon, and Porroux, with vines planted between 1936 and 1972. There's great intensity and structure to this wine with a deep mineral thrust...
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Great savings on this elegant Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand. Notes of grapefruit and citrus mingle with hints of lemongrass and passionfruit. The palate is concentrated and layered with bright citrus and tropical fruits giving way to a creamy and...
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This grower Rose' Champagne has a seductive nose of fresh strawberry and an elegant, understated style that is irresistible! 95 POINTS, Wines & Spirits. "This is made in the traditional oeil de perdrix style, prevalent in Champagne before Dom Pérignon and...
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This grower Champagne's bottling embodies the Lassalle's signature, bold-yet-finessed house style par excellence. The Lassalle's Cuvée Préférence is a subtle evocation of the senses, a constantly renewing enchantment of magical bubbles. 60% Pinot Meunier, 20% Chardonnay, 20% Pinot Noir. Dried...
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Foillard is a reference point producer for fine, classically rendered Beaujolais and his wines rank among the best in the region. We'd put this fine villages bottling up against most other Cru-level wines -- it's that good. Certified Organic. Made...
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This wine is one of the most complete representations of the complexity that can be found in the finest Volnays as it is from one of the great vineyards of this village. Champans is a prime premier cru site in...
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Fine and discreet nose offering subtle notes of red fruits, rose petals and dried herbs. On the palate, the delicate tannins combine power and elegance with fleshy fruit notes that are built on exceptional structure. There is a contained energy...
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Quite a lot of character in this 100% Monastrell made from organic grapes. This is a rich, full-bodied red wine with layers of red blackberry fruit with a briary, wild character with hints of herbs and dark chocolate. A lot of...
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A blend (block and barrel selections) of all Ken's single vineyard Pinots. This is ripe and concentrated, but not heavy. There are hints of black raspberries and tea spices. Signature Ken Wright balance and complexity at a great price. This...
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A collaboration between importer Kermit Lynch and wine maker Jean-Francois Pasturel. This Southern Rhone blend is comprised of mostly Grenache and Syrah and finished with Cinsault and Carignan. Aging in cement cuves creates a structured, fresh wine with good acidity....
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This zippy and fresh coastal Loire wine is tasty on its own but it really wants to be paired with oysters or really any shellfish or seafood. There is a brisk acidity along with a salinity (salty sea air) component...
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A great value in Pinot Grigio made by Lageder. Dry and crisp in style with a clean, elegant, peach and pear skin flavor. Light to medium-bodied with a fresh mouth-watering finish. Great party wine! Certified organic. Vegan friendly.
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97 POINTS, Vinous. "The 2019 Brunello di Montalcino Casanovina Montosoli tempts the imagination, blending savory herbs with fresh mint, dusty black cherry and camphor. This is pure elegance on the palate, silky-smooth and supple with cool-toned red fruits complicated by...
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94 POINTS, Antonio Galloni, Vinous. "The 2021 Chianti Classico is one of the wines of the vintage in the Chianti Classico "Annata" category. Rich, layered and super-expressive, the 2021 offers up red/purplish berry fruit, rose petal, lavender, and spice race...
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Another knockout Chardonnay from this beautiful hilltop estate high in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This is a Burgundy lover’s Chardonnay from the Santa Cruz Mountains. Drought returned for our 2020 vintage and is forever on our minds. We dry farm...
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The Estate Pinot from Mount Eden is the essence of mountain fruit. Dry-farmed and at over 2,000 feet, this pinot dazzles with elegance and purity of fruit. Using natural yeasts, fermentation is conducted in small open-top fermenters, then new wine is...
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Ultra-traditional Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire Valley. Beautiful fruit shines through balanced with rocky minerality and a wonderful crispness. Great length on this and it reflects perfectly the region and village of Pouilly-Fumé. Organic.
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94 POINTS, The Wine Advocate. "The Oddero 2020 Barolo has a pretty mineral content with pencil shaving, crushed stone and wet soil that meets forest berry and underbrush. The wine hits on all cylinders, and there is good aromatic balance....
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A great blend from a little known region in Spain called La Tierra de Castilla. Graciano is a grape native to Spain that has great freshness and perfume while the Cabernet Sauvignon adds depth and richness -- the result is...
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Beautiful lush red fruit with savory spice and beautifully balanced. All wrapped in a soft, silky texture. Just pure YUM in a glass.
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Dogliani is the region that sets the bar for Dolcetto. This wine is spicy with balanced red, ripe fruit and fresh acidity. Another great Italian wine to drink with meat dishes, cheeses and anti pasti. Made as a natural wine.