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Our carefully selected wines are arriving in early September!
11 producers, 40 Cuvées from 11 different French wine regions.

BOURGOGNE

DOMAINE DE VILLAINE La Fortune

In Bouzeron, a village built around Aligoté, one small parcel quietly makes the case for Pinot Noir — light-footed, spiced by whole clusters, and finished with a saline mineral edge that lingers longer than its ruby color suggests.

BOURGOGNE

DOMAINE DE VILLAINE Bouzeron Aligoté 2020

Long before most wine lovers took Aligoté seriously, one family in a small Burgundian village decided the grape deserved its own appellation — and set out to prove it, harvest after harvest.

LOIRE VALLEY

The Same Tomato, Completely Opposite Expressions

Two Perspectives from Kumamoto and Nara The Same Tomato, Completely Opposite Expressions: Two Perspectives from Kumamoto and Nara From Sweetness to Savory: The Evolution of Umami in the Glass The contemporary bar landscape is experiencing a quiet shift, moving away from conventional sweetness toward complex, savory flavor profiles rooted in salt and umami. At the […]

ROSÉ

A Sake Named by a Poet—Tamba’s “Kotsuzumi,” the First Step into Japanese Sake

For many in Bangkok, the first encounter with this brewery begins not with sake, but with a silhouette reminiscent of antiquity. Within a glass vessel modeled after Greco-Roman amphorae, large Nanko plums rest quietly at the bottom.

BORDEAUX

CHÂTEAU LA CROIX SAINT-GEORGES La Croix Saint-Georges 2021

On the Pomerol plateau, this small estate sits close enough to Le Pin that only a single row of vines separates the two properties, with Petit Village and Pétrus as neighbors on the other sides. From this narrow band of gravel, the Janoueix family shapes a Merlot-led wine built on density and precision rather than scale — right down to barrels cut to the owner's own specification.

BOURGOGNE

CHÂTEAU DE GARNEROT Terres de Garnerot 2022

In 2018, two women from outside the wine trade took over a quiet Mercurey estate and began farming it their own way. Terres de Garnerot 2022 is the first vintage to carry the domaine's official organic certification — a regional Pinot Noir grown entirely on the estate's own land, made with patience rather than formula.

BOURGOGNE

CHAI GARNEROT Vénus Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut 2017

Two women revived an 18th-century Mercurey estate and built this bottle-fermented sparkling wine from old-vine Chardonnay and Aligoté alone. After a long, patient rest, it has just reached its moment to be enjoyed.

BOURGOGNE

CHÂTEAU DE GARNEROT Mercurey ‘Roc Blanc’ Rouge 2023

Named for the pale limestone beneath a single parcel in Mercurey, Roc Blanc traces the story of two women who left unrelated careers to bring an eighteenth-century château back to life, working the vines by hand and letting the site's own yeasts do the rest.

BOURGOGNE

CHÂTEAU DE GARNEROT Mercurey Roc Blanc Blanc 2023

In Mercurey, best known for red wine, Château de Garnerot draws a different story from Roc Blanc's limestone slopes — a Chardonnay shaped by Caroline Fyot and Alexia Russo after both left established careers to train in viticulture and winemaking.

Drink

The Quiet Revelation of the Third Grape

Time, Terroir, and the Forgotten Grape: The Philosophy of Vincent Charlot The Quiet Revelation of the Third Grape Historically, Champagne has been defined by a traditional hierarchy. At the top sits Chardonnay, followed by Pinot Noir. These two varieties occupy the most highly classified vineyards and have long dominated international acclaim. For generations, however, the […]

Clos des Litanies Pomerol

The Day a Litany Became the Name of a Place

In a Corner of Pomerol, 1514 On April 19, 1514, in Pomerol in southwestern France, Jean de Vallon, prior of the Knights of Malta, appointed a young monk to serve the parish priest of Saint-Jean de Pomeyrol. His name was Mathieu Boschuet. Records describe him as “a man recommended for his religious fervor and for the sincerity of his life and morals.” Brother Boschuet withdrew from the bustle of the parish and settled in a small enclosed plot surrounded by vineyards. There, it is said, he would open his breviary each day and quietly, repeatedly recite a litany to Saint Vincent, the patron saint of winemakers.

Bruno Paillard

A Champagne Born from a Single Jaguar

The Broker with No Wine of His Own In 1981, within the historic city of Reims in France’s Champagne region, a man sold his vintage Jaguar. His name was Bruno Paillard. Deeply versed in the trade as a Champagne broker (négociant), he possessed a profound understanding of the region's finest offerings. Yet, despite his expertise and keen eye for exceptional wines, not a single bottle bore his own name. With the funds from selling his beloved car, Paillard founded his own maison. Champagne is a world long dominated by grandes maisons with histories stretching back centuries. For an independent house established after the war to achieve international acclaim was an exceedingly rare feat.

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