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2022 Pascal Cotat Sancerre La Grande Côte

Pascal Cotat's 2022 La Grande Côte is epic. There's a soaring and layered complexity that's backed by serious architecture. You get a vibrant core of gripping chalkiness and saline minerality.

Keller RR Turbo Charged

The 2022 RR is silky and has a driving tension. As usual, the RR stands in contrast to Keller's dry wines with its darker mineral expression with wet stones and moist earth, even tobacco and clay.

Weightless Minerality:
2022 Emrich-Schönleber Grosses Gewächs

There is perhaps no other German wine estate with a track record of such ruthlessly mineral, profoundly rigorous dry Rieslings. If you are lucky enough to have any Schönleber GGs from 2004 onward, you know the exquisite fine-ness these wines evolve into.

Grace and Understatement Revisited:
2021 Jouan Chambolle-Musigny

The 2021 Chambolle shows all of the hallmarks of this classical, and throw-back vintage. It is intricate, expressive, and profoundly soulful. 

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow:
2022 Tempier Bandol Rosé

The 2022 offers depth and power alongside a dazzling, bright backbone. The classic profile is on bold display - flowers, herbs, citrus, spice, and a subtle, scorched earth minerality.

Chave Rarity
2018-2019 Chave Saint-Joseph Clos Florentin

Chave's wines are some of our favorites, and we have a particular soft spot for his Saint-Joseph. Along with Pierre Gonon, Chave produces our favorite expression of Saint-Joseph. Chave's St. Joseph is something we cellar each vintage.

Sub-$20 Burgundy Curiosity
2021 Trousselle Coteaux Bourguignons Rouge

Since discovering the wines a few years ago, Trousselle has been our go-to producer for everyday Burgundy.

2021 Roulot Meursault Villages
"This is an excellent Meursault village" -Burghound

The villages designation is very deceiving. It seems like Burgundy's hierarchies based on centuries of accumulated wisdom are suspended when it comes to Roulot's Meursault Villages. It is world-class.

Sonntag Geschlossen:
The Sublime, Whispers of Grüner Veltliner

Today we present a three-vintage vertical of Grüner Veltliners from a reclusive farmer near the Czech border in Austria.

This is only the second time we've ever seen a small allocation of these wines; we believe it's only the second time any wine has been released from this curious cellar.

The Cult Meunier - Sharp Pricing:
2019 Jerome Prevost La Closerie "&"

The 2019 Esperluette has a riveting energy with a saline cut. There are beautiful aromatics of stone fruits and white flowers. Everything is presented with a tension-filled drive. 

"Layered and multidimensional"
2020 Guillemot-Michel Viré-Clessé Charleston

The 2020 Charleston is a wine that's structured to age. This is a soaring, powerfully energetic, and concentrated Burgundy.

In Top Form - German Elite:
2022 Schäfer-Fröhlich Stromberg Grosses Gewächs

For over a decade, we held Schäfer-Fröhlich as one of Germany's top talents. The 2022 Stromberg GG is yet another example of the elite level that Tim Fröhlich works at. 

Northern Rhône Master:
2015 Chave St-Joseph

The 2015 is a pristine and seamlessly elegant version of Chave's St. Joseph. When you taste it, every component seems to be in place. There's incredible poise, concentration, and length.

Grace and Understatement:
2021 Jouan Morey St. Denis 1er Cru Clos Sorbé

The 2021 Clos Sorbé is a paradigmatic example of the fine-tuned and pensive signature of Jouan's wines. It has pure red fruits with spice, floral notes, and earthy minerality. It has a beautiful elegance and pristine clarity. 

Utter Brilliance:
2018 Laherte Champagne Les Longues Voyes Extra Brut

This is a majestic Champagne boasting a salty and chalky core with notes of orchard fruits and sweet herbs. There's a sleek drive and crystal-clear focus to the wine that makes it very compelling. 

D'Angerville Rarity:
2019 Bourgogne Rouge

The 2019 offers up a beautiful velvety texture with a raciness that acts as a springboard for notes of spice, earth, and dark fruits. For its level, d'Angerville's 2019 Bourgogne Rouge has class to spare.

2021 Tribut Chablis

When it comes to classic Chablis AC, Tribut is one of the most important names to know. Tribut's Chablis is, without a doubt, one of the best village-level wines in the region.

Dynamite and a Provençal Aristocrat:
2020 Domaine de Trévallon IGP Alpilles

Trévallon flaunts the nobility that France's south can display. In the 2020 vintage, you can witness the fineness, elegance, and harmony that are Trévallon's calling cards. There's a nicely judged wildness to the wine that imbues it with an extra dimension of mystery, soulfulness, and complexity.

"This is an excellent Nuits villages and very much worth your attention."
2020 Chevillon Nuits-St-George Vieilles Vignes

There are few domaines that I respect as much as Chevillon. The NSG VV is one of the village wines that I buy for my cellar every year. The 2020 should not be missed. 

Ulli Stein and the Art of the Kabinett (Feinherb and Trocken)

In vintage 2022 this is especially true, as the old vines weathered the dryness of June and July easily. They naturally limited their yields and produced grapes with a dense concentration.

"It is a superb Champagne. I preferred it to the 2008"
2009 Dom Pérignon Rosé

The 2009 Rosé is one of those wines that hits you from so many angles. It explodes from the glass with extremely clear layered red fruits, roses, spice, and minerality.

Extreme Weightlessness Revisited:
2021 Enderle & Moll Pinot Noir Buntsandstein

Since the beginning, Enderle and Moll's house style has been a radiant elegance, an uncanny lightness paired with wildly complex aromatics, great depth, and soil-clarity.

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow:
2021 Envínate Migan Tinto

We've been impressed by their 2021s. The wines possess a beautiful freshness and clarity. 

The Magic of Bea:
2018 Bea Montefalco Sagrantino Secco Vigneto Pagliaro

When you catch Bea's Pagliaro firing on all cylinders, it's a magical bottle.

There's a wildness and yet something undeniably noble about the wine.