ADRIEN BERLIOZ PET’NAT ROSE $7½GL 14GL 70BTL
Pinot Gris/Persan, Savoie, FR, 2024
Super clean Methode Ancestrale bubbles tiptoeing between sunset pink and orange. An easy-peasy aperitif with a little special soupçon from the rare, indigenous Persan.

CHETIF QUART CREMANT DE BOURGOGNE $9½GL 18GL 88BTL
Chardonnay/Pinot Noir/Aligote, Bourgogne, FR, NV
Opulent autumnal bubbles from the Côte Chalonnaise. Imagine Yogi Bear-floating towards a Patisserie, warm scents of baked apples and toasted hazelnuts wafting in the crisp air.

PATRICE COLIN ‘PERLES ROUGES’ $7½GL 14GL 68BTL
Gamay Noir, Coteaux du Vendômois, FR, NV
Méthode Ancestrale bubbly from the Loire that reads like herbaceous Gallic Lambrusco. An enlivining sparkling red that jives especially well with charcuterie.

BRAND & FILS ‘L’OEILLET LE LITRE’ $7½GL 14GL 881L BTL
Pinot Blanc, Alsace, FR, 2023
Honey walnut prawns – imagine that. But instead of a dish, it’s a thirst-quenching glass. A tiny hit of honey with a crisp briny snap, it’s creamy on the palate with a tannic grasp. Hear us out…you got nothing to fear; honey walnut wine, it’s a good idear.

LE MAZEL CUVEE LES LECHES $9½GL 18GL 90BTL
Grenache Blanc/Sauvigon Blanc/Viognier, Ardèche, FR, 2024
There’s a tingle in the south. The south of France, that is. But we’re not to judge if this gets your motor revving, too. There’s a slight effervescence here, like a crunchy pear bobbing in clean, cold ocean waves.

ARNAUD LAMBERT ‘MIDI’ $8½GL 16GL 78BTL
Chenin Blanc, Saumur, FR, 2023
Citrus, apples, quince, beeswax, sea salt, hopes, dreams. Simply beautiful Chenin from Breze.

CHATEAU SAINTE ANNE ROSE $7½GL 14GL 72BTL
Mourvedre/Carignan/Grenache/Cinsault, Cotes de Provence, FR, 2024
A historic estate in the heart of Bandol as well as a founding member of the Association des Vins Naturals. Practicing organic and biodynamic viticulture since the 1960s, Sainte Anne proves that conscientious winemaking and clean, classic profiles can coexist.

BECHTOLD ‘NEF DES FOLLES’ $8½GL 16GL 78BTL
Pinot Gris, Alsace, FR, 2022
Glowing burnished copper in the glass, like a magical cauldron bubbling in a half-timbered house. Concentrated notes of stewed quince, apricot pits and chamomile.

SARAZINIERE ‘LA PEPIE’ $9½GL 18GL 88BTL
Gamay Noir, Macon, FR, 2021
How can a red wine taste so green? Like the first warm summer morning of 2021 captured in bottle, fresh tendrils reaching for the sun beneath a canopy of leaves. Light, laser-focused acidity and structure, a liquid cure for gray days.

TERRA VITA VINUM ‘LARGE SOIF’  $8½GL 16GL 78BTL
Cabernet Franc, Anjou, FR, 2022
When one has a Big Thirst, one reaches for the Large Soif. Classic blue fruit-perfumed Cab Franc with delicate robin’s egg tannins. Too easy.

POBERAJ ‘OAK RIDGE VINEYARD’ $10½GL 20GL 92BTL
Pinot Noir, Columbia Gorge, WA, 2023
Savigny-les-Beaune via White Salmon. Luscious red fruit lifts off into a cooling, eucalyptus-laced finish bolstered by amphorae and Burgundy barrel-imparted texture.

ANALEMMA ‘PETIT MANSENG’ $9½GL 18GL
Petit Manseng, Columbia Gorge, OR, 2021
DRINK THIS WITH FOIE GRAS. An obscure grape from SW France, grown on the banks of the Columbia River with a hint of residual sugar? Come on, people! It doesn’t get better than this! Complex, tropical, thrilling. Dare we say PNW Sauternes??

MAISON FERRE ‘LE POMMEAU D’OSCAR’ $7½GL 14GL
Apples, Normandy, FR, NV
Like distilled salted butter from a Vache Normande, this is fresh apple juice fortified with Calvados to produce one of the most delicious digestifs known to humankind. If there is a piece of cheese on your table, do yourself a favor and make sure there is a glass of this as well.