To encourage the recommended social distancing we are placing our Saturday tastings on hold. Our weekly emails will go out as usual with a bit more emphasis on regional discovery. As always, we are happy to provide our deep insight…
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Posted on 2020.03.19 in France, Saturday Sips Wines, Loire  | Read more...
Champagne Larmandier-Bernier “Longitude” Extra Brut (Premier Cru) “To create a wine that deeply expresses its terroir is Pierre Larmandier‘s aim… But to this fastidous grower, terroir in itself is not enough. ‘Terroir is to wine what the score is…
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Vosne-Romanée is full of Mugnerets, famous ones known through generations for producing great wines. The current winemaker at Domaine Mongeard-Mugneret, Vincent Mongeard, is obviously not a Mugneret. But his grandmother was. And in 1945, when Vincent’s father,…
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Posted on 2020.03.11 in France, Saturday Sips Wines, Burgundy  | 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 Saturday Sips Wines, France, 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 France, Saturday Sips Wines, 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 France, Saturday Sips Wines, 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...
Please join us and winemaker Diane Flamand, representing Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite), on Wednesday February 5th, between 5:30-7:00pm. We’ll be tasting and discussing wines from the Légende Collection — an impressive portfolio of approachable, affordable Bordeaux produced in the Lafite…
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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 Saturday Sips Wines, France, Languedoc-Roussillon  | Read more...