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Posted on 2020.03.05 in Saturday Sips Wines, Italy, Umbria  | Read more...
Vines have been in Marie-Élodie Zighera Confuron’s maternal family for four generations but she is the first of the family to produce and bottle the wines under her own name. Living in Paris as a teenager, she would travel to…
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Posted on 2020.02.27 in France, Saturday Sips Wines, Beaujolais  | Read more...
For the past few years, the wines of Domaine Bart have been some of our greatest Burgundy values and the 2016 vintage is no different. It was quite a challenging year for the domaine, where frost reduced yields so much…
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Posted on 2020.02.20 in Saturday Sips Wines, France, Burgundy  | Read more...
L’Hêtre (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux 2017) Special Price: $173/6-pack (~$29/bottle) It has been almost exactly one year since we brought in the very first vintage (2016) of L’Hêtre. Given the quality, the price, and the fact that…
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Posted on 2020.02.13 in France, Bordeaux, Saturday Sips Wines  | Read more...
Situated in the heart of the village of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, the vineyard Clos Saint Patrice has an unhindered view of the famous Château of the popes which has dominated the village and its vineyards for almost 800 years. But…
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Posted on 2020.02.06 in Saturday Sips Wines, France, Southern Rhone  | Read more...
A lawyer by training, meticulous winemaker Anne Parent is the matriarch of Pommard. Passionate not only about her wines but about the role of female vignerons in Burgundy, she founded the Women’s Winemaker Association in Burgundy and was its first…
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Posted on 2020.01.29 in France, Saturday Sips Wines, Burgundy  | Read more...
Fitou, a wild and remote subzone on the Languedoc-Roussillon border, is the very first granted appellation in that region. It consists of two small enclaves within Corbières: Fitou Maritime, a clay-limestone band around the saltwater lagoons on the coast, and…
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Posted on 2020.01.23 in France, Saturday Sips Wines, Languedoc-Roussillon  | Read more...
The Côte Vermeille (vermillion coast) is a 13 mile long stretch of beaches, small bays, creeks, and coves nested along the coastline of southern France on the border of Catalunya. This romantic yet rugged land is where the Massif des…
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Posted on 2020.01.16 in France, Saturday Sips Wines, Languedoc-Roussillon  | Read more...
Bernard Baudry is easily one of Chinon’s best producers. Born into a winemaking family, Bernard studied oenology in Beaune and began his professional life as a vine-tending consultant at the Tours laboratory. In 1975 he decided to start…
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Posted on 2020.01.09 in Saturday Sips Wines, France, Loire  | Read more...
Maxime Magnon Rozeta (Corbières 2016) RED Special 6-pack Price: $205 (~$34/bottle) We’ve been bringing in young star winemaker Maxime Magnon‘s gorgeous expressions of Corbières from reclaimed old-vine plots in high-altitude vineyards for several years now. A native of the Burgundy…
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Posted on 2020.01.03 in France, Saturday Sips Wines, Languedoc-Roussillon  | Read more...