June 2025

Sancerre Sheds Its Clichés: Stéphane Riffault’s Wines Speak in Texture, Tension and the Dialect of Place. * Six-Bottle Set, $249 (Five Whites, One Rosé)

A communion with the soil is the most important relationship a winemaker will ever forge, and nowhere is this demonstrated more reliably than in Sancerre, where three distinct soil types produce a split-personality of wine characteristics. This may be something…

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Posted on 2025.06.26 in Petit Chablis, Pouilly-Fumé, Sancerre, Chablis, France, Wine-Aid Packages, Loire  |  Read more...

 

Provence’s Life Beyond Rosé: Visionary Producers See Potential in the Full Diversity of Southern Grapes and Terroir to Make Magnificent Red and White Wines.

This week’s selection is a trip through sun-kissed, lavender-scented Provence, home to a unique array of southern wines. Though almost exclusively associated with rosé, some of it lackluster, the region is increasingly focusing on quality as the fashion for dry…

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Posted on 2025.06.21 in Bandol, Palette, Les Baux-de-Provence, France, Wine-Aid Packages, Provence  |  Read more...

 

A Burgundy Odyssey for Bloomsday Commomoration (June 16): Grégory and Antoine Gouges Weave a Winedark Tapestry of Seven Nuits-Saint-Georges Premier Crus in Nine Packs of NSG Vertical Sets for the Paterfamilias- A Portrait in Youth and Age

Let the nihilists and conspiracy nuts have their doomsday; Bloomsday will remain our most personally significant wine-related holiday. Named in honor of Leopold Bloom, the protagonist and hero of James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece ‘Ulysses’ that follows Bloom’s existential meander through…

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Posted on 2025.06.14 in Nuits-Saint-Georges, France, Burgundy, Wine-Aid Packages  |  Read more...

 

Côte des Bar Sets the Course: Jean-Sébastien Fleury, Ecological Pioneer, Is in Pursuit of “Understanding and Revealing Terroir’s Character” in Champagne. NEW RELEASES

Although it sounds a bit contradictory, ‘doing what comes naturally’ is often an exacting science and a dedicated quest, and nowhere in Champagne is this more evident than in the fields and cellars of Domaine Fleury, the Côte des Bar…

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Posted on 2025.06.05 in France, Champagne, Wine-Aid Packages  |  Read more...

 


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