Pierre-Marie Chermette ‘Domaine du Vissoux’ Beaujolais Blanc 2016
Regular Price $22.99
Sale price $17.99
Chardonnay has long had a home in Beaujolais, to the surprise of many. This beautiful and full bodied wine is sourced from three distinct vineyard sites, each contributing a different attribute to the wine. Vinified and aged in stainless steel (with only 10% in old acacia barrels) the wine is rich, bold, clean and fresh with stone fruit and citrus aromas and flavors.
Claude Branger ‘Monnieres-Saint Fiacre’, Muscadet Sevre et Maine 2014
Regular Price $27.99
Sale price $21.99
Among the small cadre of committed growers in Muscadet—and it remains a small cadre—the father and son team of Claude and Sébastien rank among the top. Together, they prune their vines for low yields, harvest by hand (a rarity in this land of machine harvesting), and lets the wines rest on the lees until bottling, which is done without fining and with a light filtration—the classic sur lie technique. It’s this technique that gives good Muscadet wine its freshness and lift. This cru is left on its less for an astounding 33 months and the result is a wine of both elegance and power.
Albert Mann Cremant d’Alsace Extra Brut NV
Regular Price $29.99
Sale price $23.99
This wine, of Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir and Pinot Auxerrois, epitomizes the beauty and delight of Alsatian wines. Its a wine for both celebration and daily consumption; easy to enjoy yet beguiling and contemplative. Its fresh and forward, sumptuous but still a bit coy.
Pradeaux Vesprée Rosé, Vin de France 2016
Regular price: $39.99
Sale Price: $31.99
Oh my. Those that think that rosé is merely a simple, easy quaffable wine to enjoy at frigid temperatures under the hot sun need to shut up and taste this wine. Rich, bold, deep and structured, its a wine that is both age worthy and delicious today. This is a rosé for all seasons.
Clos de la Roilette, Fleurie 2016
Regular Price $24.99
Sale price $19.99
Too many people think they don’t like Beaujolais, that is, until they taste it. This wine, like most cru Beaujolais, is interesting as well as being versatile and, above all, delicious. 100% Gamay, its bright fruit flavors lure you in and and its herbal nuances entice and, finally, the lasting and firm grip surprises and delights. (Having ham? This is the wine)
Lucien Crochet ‘La Croix du Roy’ Sancerre Rouge 2011
Regular price: $32.99
Sale Price: $25.99
Red (and rosé) wines from Sancerre are made of 100% Pinot Noir. Always. Without exception. But these cool climate wines show little resemblance to the California expression of the grape, which is often jammy, unctuous and good as a cocktail. This wine, with some bottle age, is less friendly perhaps than its fruity American cousin, but far more interesting as the secondary flavors and aromas are what the word ‘complexity’ means in a wine.