Jean-François (his friends call him Jef) is a world-class grower making some of the most soulful, energetic and delicious wines of the northern Rhône. His style is the perfect fusion of new-wave and classic with plenty of spicy, ripe, generous fruit delivered with a clear-cut mineral edge. The wines have the raw material to age gracefully for years, but they are so open and effusive it’s impossible to resist them in their ebullient youth.

We were eating steak and roasted mushrooms with some wine-loving (and generous) friends just before the holidays. There were fancy bottles: mature Bordeaux, '99 Dunn and '94 Dominus, and more. And they were singing!
But one lesser-known bottle of Spanish wine was holding its own in that crowd. It had the fruit and complexity of just-mature traditional Tempranillo from Ribera del Duero, combining the punchiness you want for pairing with charred meat with the elegance to make you want to keep going back to it, even after the food was done.

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.

Kermit Lynch is shipping us our allocation of 2023 Lavantureux Chablis, and we couldn't be more excited to give you a preview.

Just in the nick of time, the New York Times' Eric Asimov has released a brand-new 20 Under $20 column. With the doldrums of February approaching, it's important to enjoy the small things that bring pleasure, and for many of us (all of us?) a glass of well-made wine is exactly that. Add in a great meal, and now you're cooking with gas.

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.

These first few days of the new year, we all have New Year’s resolutions in mind. But not every resolution has to involve a gym membership, or a new diet, or taking up a new hobby — your resolution could be as simple as broadening your wine-drinking horizons. We’ve put together a little primer to help you do just that.

Camus-Bruchon's 2022 Savigny-lès-Beaune "Aux Grands Liards Vieilles Vignes," shows how beautifully old vines translate classic terroir and Guillaume Camus did an exemplary job letting his vines sing in 2022. Despite the heat and stress of the vintage, he has managed to capture wines with incredible precision and balance with generous, juicy ripe fruit balanced with unstoppable freshness and lift.

To celebrate the end of 2024, we are offering an even more delicious version of one of 2023's most popular sparkling wines. We're talking about Bruno Dangin's blanc de noir called "Cuvée Blanche" — a Crémant de Bourgogne you could easily mistake for a great Grower Champagne.