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Jura's Wineman - Jacques Puffeney:
2008-2017

Extremely Rare:
Selosse Lieux-Dits 6-Packs

These are once-in-a-lifetime wines: beautiful, singular and some of the most complex and thought-provoking out there.

435 Miles North of Cornas: Roterfaden

This is a grape that people have compared to a blend of Pinot Noir, Syrah, and Nebbiolo - it can be elegant, lithe, herbal, and floral.

"2022 is as good a vintage as Chevillon has made"
2022 Chevillon Nuits-St-George 1er Cru Les Pruliers

This is Burgundy at its most unyieldingly honest, at its most soil-driven. Chevillon achieved something truly awe-inspiring in 2022.

The Go-To Non-Vintage Champagne: Bérèche Brut Reserve NV

Bérèche is one of our favorite producers in all of Champagne.

Everything that he turns out is shockingly good. However, the value that the Brut Reserve offers is amazing. It's our go-to Champagne.

Lauer:
The View from the Top of the Saar

The "Stirn" is a bottle that so perennially over-delivers, that is so profoundly linear and elegant, that articulates a conception of delicately off-dry balance that it can come from nowhere else other than from the Saar, and from no one else other than Florian Lauer.

White Burgundy:
Colin-Morey, Dauvissat, Guffens-Heynen, Lafon, Leflaive, Ramonet, Roulot & More

Recent Purchases:
Bernaudeau, Burlotto, Cedric Bouchard, Gonon, Julian Haart, Keller, Mascarello, Mugneret-Gibourg, Puffeney, Wasenhaus & More

"This is an excellent group of 2022 whites and worth your interest."
2022 Bachelet-Monnot Chassagne-Montrachet

Bachelet-Monnots are revelatory expressions of Burgundy. The 2022 Chassagne underscores the caliber of winemaking at this domaine.

"The 2019 Barbaresco Albesani is a haunting, gorgeous wine."
2019 Roagna Barbaresco Albesani 750s & Magnums

Luca Roagna is producing wines with mind-blowing purity and textural allure.

"The domaine almost never misses these days and 2022 is a brilliant vintage."
2022 D'Angerville Volnay 1er Cru Champans

Today, I'm happy to offer a dynamite example of Champans. In 2022, the wine is shockingly impressive. 

Throwback Loire - Earth Saturated Finesse:
2021 Baudry Chinon La Croix Boissée

The 2021 has an astonishing purity and a lovely buoyed lightness of crushed berry fruit and complex savory notes. There's herbs, spice, smoke, sandalwood, and violets all backed by a core of tensile saline minerality. 

"Simply breathtaking."
2008 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne

As the Galloni quotes above make clear, the 2008 is a dynamic bottle. We drank another bottle last week and there's little doubt that the wine will go down as a legend.

"The Domprobst is the aristocrat of the Mosel Kabinett world"
-2023 Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Kabinett

There's not much that needs to be said about Schaefer's Domprobst Kabinett. Vintage after vintage, it's one of the great Kabinetts. 

Red Burgundy 1989-2023:
Barthod, D’Angerville, Lafarge, Les Horees, Mugneret-Gibourg, Roumier & More

"This is a superb set of whites"
2022 Ballot-Millot Bourgogne Blanc

The 2022 Bourgogne Blanc dramatically underscores just how careful the winemaking is. It's rare that you get this much precision and depth at the Bourgogne level. 

"Superb"
2019 Roagna Barolo La Pira

It's shocking how the wine manages to combine such density and verve. The spectrum of flavors is jaw-dropping - layered red fruits, game, earth, tar, herbs, spice, etc.

"The Mondino is complex, balanced, and an absolute joy to taste"
2021 Piero Busso Barbaresco Mondino

The whole lineup is stunning. With that said, I have a soft spot for Mondino. The combination of seriousness and accessibility is difficult to beat. 

A Whole Different Wavelength Revisited:
2022 Jouan Gevrey-Chambertin "Aux Echezeaux"

The 2022 "Aux Echezeaux" is an incredibly seductive vintage of the wine. There’s a clarity of expression with a beautiful lift. This combined with an intriguing textural dimension makes for a dynamite bottle of red Burgundy.

Classicism in Côte-Rôtie:
2021 Jamet Côte-Rôtie

In any year, Jamet's Côte-Rôtie is one of the great wines of the northern Rhône. However, something special happens to Jamet in brisker and more classical vintages. Anyone fortunate enough to have tasted their 1991 Côte-Rôtie can attest to this.

"Terrific" -2020 Laherte Les Grandes Crayeres
Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut Champagne

The majority of Laherte's vines are in Coteaux Sud d’Epernay, an area between the Côte des Blancs and the Vallée de la Marne that has chalky soil with a thin layer of clay on top. It's hard not to feel how the chalk contributes to Laherte's signature of tension and fineness.

The Shocking Rieslingfeier Revelation...

While the 2025 edition of the world's greatest Riesling festival, Rieslingfeier, had no shortage of star power, the surprise revelation was the newcomer Lukas Hammelmann.

Piedmont:
Brovia, Burlotto, Canonica, Cappellano, Conterno, Mascarello, Rinaldi, Roagna & More

Cult Chablis:
2022 Tribut Chablis 1er Cru Beauroy

These are utterly classic Chablis. Any time I see Tribut, I buy it.