2020 Domaine Jean Foillard - Morgon Eponym
750ml | SKU 89864 |
1 Available
The latest addition to Jean Foillard’s stellar lineup of Morgons comes from the Charmes 'lieu-dit', one of the highest parcels in the appellation. A truly fine wine, this cuvée features a bit more crunch with lots of bright acidity and a leaner, more min...
$44.99
2023 Domaine Jean Foillard - Beaujolais Villages (750ml)
750ml | SKU 102258 |
23 Available
Every so often, I take a sip of a “humble” regional wine that makes me question everything. With a glass of this in hand, I think to myself, who cares about grand cru Burgundy? Or, why would I ever drink anything else? Or, surely this is the bottle I’d choose to fill my cooler with if I were stranded on a desert island.
When I’m able to think rationally again, of course I’d pounce on a bottle of Taupenot-Merme’s grand cru Corton Rognet or the Perret family’s majestic Condrieu I write about in this month’s newsletter. And variety is everything, so I wouldn’t fill my island cooler with just Jean Foillard’s Beaujolais-Villages. But this kind of red makes you suspend reason for a moment and devote yourself to it, at least while the wine’s still in your glass.
After all, Beaujolais-Villages has no business being this good, but Jean Foillard is an extraordinary vigneron. A decade or so ago, Jean made Beaujolais Nouveau that he would expedite to us each November to meet the deadline of the worldwide Nouveau celebration. That Nouveau was outstanding and he didn’t need to change anything, but he had an epiphany that only the most ambitious sort of grower has: the grapes he was using were of high enough quality to make a cuvée with more depth and complexity, so he proposed taking his time to produce a Beaujolais-Villages instead of a hurried Nouveau.
Blending grapes from high-elevation, granite-heavy terroirs barely outside the region’s crus, and with a patient élevage that’s very close to that of his world-class Morgons, this wine is silky and seductive, with notes of rose petals, red fruit, pomegranate, and stones. With just the right amount of tannin and acidity, and lots of class, it is perfect for all occasions.
—Tom Wolf (Kermit Lynch)
$31.99
2020 Domaine Lafage - Syrah Grenache VdP des Cotes Catalanes Bastide Miraflors VV
750ml | SKU 97123 |
32 Available
91
JS
A custom cuvée for European Cellars and a joint project between Eric Solomon and Jean-Marc Lafage, Bastide Miraflors is a cuvée created from old vine Grenache (30%) grown on the schist and granite soils of Saint-Paul de Fenouillet, a terroir that always ripens late in the year, and Syrah (70%) from gravelly soils near the Mediterranean. After a long maceration of six weeks, the wine ages for 12 months in roughly 3/4 concrete vats and 1/4 600L French oak demi-muids.
$15.99
2022 Domaine Tempier - Mourvedre Blend Bandol Rouge Lulu et Lucien (750ml)
750ml | SKU 100433 |
40 Available
$59.99
2021 Douloufakis - Liatiko Crete Dafnios (750ml)
750ml | SKU 101099 |
32 Available
16.5
JR
12 months in big old barrels. Bricky mid red. Senescent fruit and sweet chestnuts. Really sweet tertiary aroma of umami-laced, spicy red fruit. Firmly but smoothly textured. Complex, layered and leathery. Chewy, honest, so full of flavour.
$16.99
2018 Dow's - LBV Port (750ml)
750ml | SKU 100074 |
7 Available
93
WS
2024 Wine Spectator Top 100 wine #26
$27.99
2020 Duca di Salaparuta - Sicilia IGT Duca Enrico 200th Anniversary (750ml)
750ml | SKU 101378 |
6 Available
$77.99
2022 Einaudi - Dolcetto di Dogliani (750ml)
750ml | SKU 102266 |
12 Available
92
JS
Attractive aromas of violets, raspberries and strawberries. It’s bright and fruity, with a medium body, powdery tannins and lively acidity. Deliciously pure and transparent dolcetto. Drink now.
$18.99
2018 El Enemigo - Single Vineyard El Cepillo Gran Enemigo (750ml)
750ml | SKU 99762 |
2 Available
97
WA
The nose of the 2018 Gran Enemigo El Cepillo Single Vineyard, from a low-yielding and drier year, is full of curry, a note that was a constant across the three vintages I tasted together, but it tends to be stronger in low-yielding and dry years like this...
$95.00
2022 Envinate - Valle de la Orotava Migan Tinto (750ml)
750ml | SKU 100628 |
12 Available
94+
WA
I tasted the bottled 2022 Migan, which was paler than the sample of 2023 I tasted next to it and also felt more reductive. Sixty-three percent of the wine was with lees in used 500- and 600-liter oak barrels, and the rest (from the Tío Luis plot) was kept...
$41.99
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