Loire

93 Points WA: The 2009 Chinon Les Picasses is from a very warm vintage but was picked late on October 13th because Les Picasses is a late-rip...

The Moelleux cuvées are made in vintages when at least a portion of the vineyards produce grapes that carry significant levels of natural sugar. Bo...

Oak aged Sancerre is kind of weird, but don't vanish in mid air.  Why does Sancerre have to always taste mineral and zippy, lets have some underlin...

Definitively “Chinon”. Low-intervention winemaking with long maceration, leaving the wines to develop as an intense expression of their terroir. Ri...

100% de-stemmed; fermentation and macération for 8 months in 800L Georgian amphora and aged for 12 months in barrel

Organic and biodynamic and the top of its range.  Clay and limestone overtop the Loire’s famed “tuffeau” soil. 40 year old Cab Franc vines fermente...

Nuits d’Ivresse, or drunken nights is bottles without any additional sulfer, so you can be sure to drink all night without additives contributing t...

I said it: better than Clos Rougard's Breze. Yes, I went there.  One of the finest Saumur blancs I've ever had.  100% Chenin; fermentation and macé...

In the words of Borat: whawha wheewha, this is nice.  Almost like a grand cru Chablis if didn't know better with an insane nose of decaying earth a...

Organic and biodynamic 12 year, ungrafted vines planted in gravelly sand. Lively, vibrant, and youthful, aged in steel rather than wood, and as suc...

This lovely Chenin Blanc from noted producer, David Laureau, has mango and white fruits on the nose; with bright acidity and oiliness on the palate...

100% Pinot from the small AOC of Saint-Pourçain 60 miles south of Sancerre.     

Philippe’s flagship Menetou-Salon Rouge offers mesmerizing purity of fruit, with a silken, vibrant texture complementing a sense of mouthwatering s...

100% Chenin, produced on stony soils of limestone, flint and silt, fermented in 400-litre barrels and Burgundian casks.  Fruit driven and powerful ...

Wow, this is out there, from 1 a ha estate grown on a combination of sand, clay, Turonien Superieur Limestone.  100% Chenin, unctuous, driven and f...

The newest of Germain's cuvees from one of the most renowned sites in Saumur.  Produced from young vines planted on clay-limestone soils, at 10,000...

Native to Bordeaux and a protege of Charly Foucault of Clos Rougeard, Thierry Germain is creating muscular yet refined Cabernet Franc.From the Chac...

Bright and unadulterated Cab Franc with wild gamey and peppery notes; electrifying acid and a fleshy, mouth coating finish. Drink with a slight chill.

“35 Rangs” is produced from 35 rows of Pinot Noir planted by Philippe’s grandfather in the early 1960s in the iron-laced Kimmeridgian soils of the ...

“Hors-Série”—which translates roughly to “special-issue”—comes from a parcel of Pinot Noir planted in 1980 by Philippe’s father. Fermentation and a...