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

Bloomsday Commemoration (June 16 – In-Store Tasting) Jurassic Odyssey: Exploring Burgundy’s Golden Gate with Eight Producers in Four Appellations (11-Bottle Pack $344)

2022 marks the hundredth anniversary of the release of James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece ‘Ulysses’, and a few venerable souls who purchased a copy on the day it came out are still trying to wade through it. Not everyone agrees on…

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Posted on 2022.06.14 in Petit Chablis, Chablis, Bourgogne Côtes d'Auxerre, Saint-Bris, France, Saturday Sips Wines, Burgundy, Wine-Aid Packages  |  Read more...