Valentine's Day may be the perfect excuse to open a bottle of pink bubbles, but Bruno Dangin's Rosé Crémant de Bourgogne is so good – and also so interesting – you really don’t need any excuse. In fact, if you’re like us, you could find yourself drinking it year-round and for years to come.
Domaine de la Pépière's Muscadet "Clisson" is one of the greatest values in French wine. Year after year, it delivers an invigoratingly crisp, textured, multi-layered wine that drinks beautifully in its youth, and has the ability to age and improve for decades. After frost wiped out the entire 2021 harvest from this site, we are so excited to have the freshly released 2022 to share with you and it’s a total stunner.
Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey hardly needs an introduction at this point, but here’s the long and short of it: he was an early master of a style of white Burgundy that has now become very popular: less oaky (thanks in part to larger barrels), no lees-stirring, earlier picked, a bit more reductive. He received tons of critical acclaim, and allocations for his wines are fiercely sought after by collectors.
But what we love most about PYCM is his championing of Burgundy’s so-called lesser terroirs, like Saint-Aubin or Pernand-Vergelesses, which happens to be his home base.
Yvon Metras has long been Beaujolais' elusive man of mystery. To French winemakers (and drinkers) he is, along with neighbors Lapierre and Foillard, one of the "fathers of natural wine".
La is Lara Rochetti, Lu is Luisa Sala. Together they are Lalu, and today they make extremely sought-after Nebbiolo and Barolo. We have the Nebbiolo for you today.
