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...

 

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 Les Baux-de-Provence, Bandol, Palette, 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...

 

Southwest Reformation: Bold Winemakers Revive Historical Vineyards and Reimagine Appellations in France’s Most Stunningly Diverse Wine Region + Southern Transformation in Châteauneuf-de-Pape

The struggle between new and old, youth and authority, innovation and tradition are part of the human drama; in France’s fertile southwest, this clash of cultures has produced marvelous results along with a few setbacks. Some young vignerons have adopted…

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Posted on 2025.05.27 in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Cahors, France, Wine-Aid Packages, Southern Rhone, South West  |  Read more...

 

Higher Grounds: Showcasing the Versatility of Gamay in the Hilly Uplands of Beaujolais’ Lesser Known Cru Villages of Chiroubles, Côte-de-Brouilly, and Brouilly.

3 Memorial Weekend Holiday Packs Picks Memorial Day is a time to reflect on mortality as well as to celebrate the rebirth of warmth and leisure time. No wine captures the complexity emotions better than Beaujolais, which can be light and…

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Posted on 2025.05.15 in Cote de Brouilly, Chenas, Côte-de-Brouilly, France, Beaujolais, Wine-Aid Packages  |  Read more...

 

Half a Dozen Rosés: ($189) In Spite of a Challenging 2024 Growing Season in the Centre-Loire, These Top Sancerre Producers Craft Wines with Remarkable Acidity and Elegance—While Keeping Alcohol Levels in Check. + ‘Amour’ By the Dozen ($89)

Join us for Saturday Sips: Cidre & Rosés There’s no rest for the weary, but if Mom is enjoying a respite on Mothers’ Day weekend, include a stop at Elie’s where, on Saturday, May 10, we will be pouring samples from…

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Posted on 2025.05.14 in Sancerre, Touraine, Rosé de Loire, Anjou, Menetou-Salon, Cidre, France, Wine-Aid Packages, Loire  |  Read more...

 

A Portrait of the Wine as a Grape Pauline Lair Paints the Loire in Pure, Vibrant Varietal Wines, Exploring its Diversity and Originality From End to End.

1006 Vins le Loire Package I: Seven-Bottle Sampler $229 (4 Red, 2 White and 2 Sparkling) Domaine du Bouchot (Pouilly-Fumé) Package II: Five-Bottle All-White Sampler $199 Join Us for Saturday Sips: The Allure of the Loire There is no official word…

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Posted on 2025.05.01 in Rosé de Loire, Coteaux-du-Loir, Anjou, Cheverny, Coteaux-du-Loir, Pouilly-Fumé, Cour-Cheverny, Vouvray, Touraine Azay-le-Rideau, Montlouis-sur-Loire, Bourgueil, Chinon, Menetou-Salon, Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil, Muscadet, Sancerre, Savennières, Saumur-Champigny, Coteaux-du-Layon, Touraine, Quarts-de-Chaume, France, Saturday Sips Wines, Wine-Aid Packages, Loire  |  Read more...

 

Saint-Julien Channels Pauillac In Search of Purity, Precision and an Assertive Style, Bordeaux’s Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Achieves All in Their 300th Vintage Release, 2019 (3-Bottle Package $366)

If ever an estate has enshrined within its very name the fact that grapes thrive where other crops fail, it is Château Ducru-Beaucaillou: The famous lieu-dit of Beaucaillou (good pebbles) was once called Maucaillou (bad pebbles) when they tried to…

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Posted on 2025.04.15 in Pauillac, Saint Julien, France, Bordeaux, Wine-Aid Packages  |  Read more...

 

The Methodical Purist: Emmanuel Lassaigne (Champagne Jacques Lassaigne) is Redefining Terroir in Champagne’s Outlying Sub-region Montgueux + Southern Champagne Tapestry: Vincent Couche in Villages Montgueux and Buxeuil

The Methodists were named for a methodical approach to Christianity and the Puritans for a desire to purify it. Although Montgueux’s roots are a bit more pagan (the name means Hill of the Goths), Emmanuel Lassaigne’s angle of approach combines…

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Posted on 2025.04.01 in France, Champagne, Wine-Aid Packages  |  Read more...

 

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