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Cinsault Cuvée n°5, Red 2023

Fond Cyprès

Cinsault regains its prestige with this single-parcel cuvée by Fond Cyprès, offering a subtle and forthright interpretation. From a clay-limestone terroir in Languedoc, certified organic (Euroleaf label), this natural red wine is a beautiful demonstration of the potential of this grape variety, too often relegated to the background.

A natural wine, precisely vinified

After a week of maceration, the grapes ferment spontaneously with indigenous yeasts, without any oenological additives. The wine is then aged for six months in wooden vats, which gives it both roundness and structure, while preserving the freshness of its aromatic expression.

Elegance, fruit, and lightness

On the nose, sour cherry dominates, with a beautiful purity and a delicate floral touch. On the palate, the attack is supple, the texture fluid, the tannins silky. The wine unfolds with finesse, without excess, but with surprising length for a wine of this alcohol content (12%). A true personality, between lightness and precision.

Open without hesitation (or keep)

Serve it slightly chilled, between 16 and 18°C, with fine charcuterie, a summer barbecue, roasted meats, or everyday dishes that call for a fresh, digestible, and vibrant red. This cuvée can be drunk now, but its structure also allows for aging for 5 to 10 years. A pleasant surprise from Fond Cyprès.

VNBA Vinel lo Ancestral Sparkling White 2021

Partida Creus

"The nose of this Vinel lo Blanco Ancestral offers aromas of ripe white fruits and yeast reminiscent of pastries. On the palate, it is elegant, fresh, and suitable for all occasions, but we recommend it as an aperitif or to accompany desserts (king cake, pithiviers, millefeuille, and all types of puff pastry). This lively and easy-drinking white sparkling wine (10% alcohol) is a blend of native Catalan grape varieties: Garnatxa Blanca, Macabeu, Moscatell, Vinyater, Xarel lo, Pansé, and Parellada. The harvest is pressed directly, and the must ferments in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats with indigenous yeasts. A second fermentation takes place in the bottle, where it ages for 10 months on its lees. fines. Dry, light, and fruity, classified as a Vino de Mesa (table wine), Vinel·lo Blanco Ancestral will easily replace a Champagne with a sunnier nuance.

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Partida Creus is an important estate, both from a winemaking and historical perspective—we're talking about the history of the vine in Catalonia. Massimo Marchiori and Antonella Gerosa, originally from Piedmont—and even from the Langhe region, where wine is well-known—first pursued careers as architects in Barcelona. But the wine bug bit them, and soon they abandoned the big city and its sophistication for the vineyards of southern Catalonia, in Bonastre in Baix-Penedés. There they found a quantity of abandoned vineyards planted with a dizzying diversity of traditional Catalan grape varieties, which they passionately revived to save these varieties—and their wines— of oblivion. For them, it is not just a matter of heritage rescue, no: it is a matter of taste and nature. Of natural wines, which they will never stop making from now on on these sandy, poor, clay-limestone or clay-gravel soils, poor and poorly irrigated, where the vines suffer to give their best juice. Massimo and Antonella practice organic, biodynamic viticulture, entirely manual and natural in order to give new life to these wines. Vinyater, sumoll, garrut, monastrell, ull de perdiu, ull de llebre, sumoll, queixal de llop, cariñena, trepat, subirat parent, maccabeu, parellada, pansé, vinel·lo, bobal, cartoixà vermell or xarel·lo: it is a true conservatory of native Catalan grape varieties that Partida Creus cares for. There is also moscatel, Grenache, Merlot, and Cabernet (among others). Few wineries can boast growing so many different grape varieties. The wines reflect this diversity, with winemakers striving to convey the signature of the soil and the grape variety as best as possible: single varietals are common among them, alongside extensive blends, all in the styles dear to Catalonia: still wine, "ancestral" sparkling wine, and even vermouth. The bottles themselves are works of art: bare glass, simply marked with two large stenciled initials that indicate the cuvée. The wines, fresh, vibrant, lush but always straight and impeccably juicy and fruity, breathe life. The arrival of a Partida Creus at the table always elicits cries of satisfaction.

Liqueur 44 from the Flaguerie,

Domaine de la Flaguerie

Liqueur 44 is a unique traditional Norman creation, obtained by artisanally macerating coffee beans, orange, and cloves in organic cider brandy. After 44 days of maceration, it reveals intense aromas of coffee, blood orange, and vanilla, with a beautiful complexity.
Served between 10 and 12°C, this original liqueur can be enjoyed as an aperitif, over ice, or with gourmet desserts.

Filagnotti Gavi Blanc 2007

Stefano Bellotti

Filagnotti 2007 is much more than a wine: it is a piece of natural wine history, signed by Stefano Bellotti, a major figure in the peasant revival in Italy. This emblematic cuvée from the Cascina degli Ulivi estate, located in Novi Ligure in Piedmont, embodies the spirit of freedom and rigor that has always guided this pioneering winemaker, committed to biodynamics since the 1980s.

From the Filagnotti plot, one of the finest terroirs of Gavi DOCG, this 100% Cortese was vinified without inputs, with indigenous yeasts, without filtration or fining, then aged for a long time, most likely in old barrels, according to the estate's practices. At nearly 20 years old, this natural white wine demonstrates exceptional aging potential.

The nose is complex, evolved but lively, with notes of dry honey, baked apple, candied yellow fruits, straw, wax, and an ever-present mineral backbone. On the palate, the texture is full, silky, but retains a beautiful freshness, with a striking, vibrant, almost saline length.

Filagnotti 2007 is a gastronomic wine: it will pair wonderfully with roasted poultry, fish in sauce, an aged cheese such as a long-aged Parmesan, or even dishes based on white truffle from Piedmont. It is recommended to decant it for a long time and serve it between 12 and 14°C to appreciate all its complexity.

A rare testimony to the old age of a natural wine, still standing, vibrant, and memorable. A meditation wine, for enlightened connoisseurs.

Syrah 3 coups Red 2021,

La Ferme de l'Arbre

The nose of this Trois Coups is expressive, laden with red fruits. This fruity sensation continues on the palate: the wine is rich and very balanced. Since it was a rainy year, the tannins are still a little green, but they will polish after two or three years of aging. Trois Coups' aging potential is also very great. It is made from Syrah grown on a plot of loess and granite, with manual harvesting. The grapes are macerated in stainless steel vats, whole bunches, for a good ten days. Punching down the cap is carried out morning and evening during fermentation. Pressing is done in a manual ratchet press. Half of the wine is aged in 220-liter barrels and the other half in stainless steel vats. Bottling takes place in early July, shortly before the following harvest.

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La Ferme de l’Arbre is a small four-and-a-half-hectare wine estate located on the right bank of the Rhône, on the Ardèche side, in Tournon-sur-Rhône (near Tain-l’Hermitage). Run for twenty-five years by Christian Lericq and Colette Barrier, it has had its current name since 2021, the year it was expanded. It is mainly located on granite soils with a loess plot. Entirely devoted to natural wine, obtained through organic and biodynamic farming, it currently produces Syrah red wines under the Saint-Joseph and Vin de France appellations. The estate also has a small apiary and produces honey. The vines are tended with herbal teas and nettle manure, and the soil is nourished with compost and manure. The wines are harvested entirely by hand, vatted in whole bunches. Vinification takes place at room temperature and the wines are neither filtered nor fined. The wines are authentic Syrahs from the Rhône Valley, simple and delicious, joyful, convivial and fruity.

Pauvre Diable Red 2020,

Domaine Serre Besson

Gourmet, deep, and velvety, this wine offers lovely, well-integrated tannins. The notes of black cherry and blackberry are assertive, while the mid-palate is characterized by touches of spice and rose. A beautiful natural red from the Vinsobres terroir, with a bright, clear ruby color. Don't be swayed by what you read on the label: Pauvre Diable, endowed with all the graces mentioned above, is nothing to be pitied. The name alludes to the state in which Victor Taylor, the current owner of the Serre Besson estate, found the estate when he bought it in 2011. A restoration of the vineyard followed, as well as a conversion to organic farming which is now bearing fruit: in this case this natural cuvée, without adding any inputs to the vineyard or the cellar, a pure expression of the estate's varied soils (sand, limestone, clay) and the oldest Grenache vines planted there. You can drink it now, in its youth and freshness, or let it age for three to five years.

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In 2011, Victor, a Californian sommelier who had settled in Nyons after leaving his position as restaurant director at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, became passionate about the Serre Besson estate, then a small, abandoned wine estate nestled around an old stone building. He bought the whole property, renovated it, and revitalized the vineyard. A few years later, the red wines from the Serre Besson estate, in the Vinsobres appellation, were making waves, were noticed in competitions, and won several medals. Victor, upon taking over the estate, began his conversion to organic farming, which now allows him to produce an entirely natural cuvée based on Grenache: this is the Pauvre Diable that we offer you. In addition, it produces a Vinsobres appellation of origin whose grape varieties bring together Syrah, Cinsault, Mourvèdre, Carignan and Grenache. As well as a rosé macerated with Grenache Noir, Syrah and Viognier. The owner's ambition is not to impose a new style but to respect the terroir and nature in an environment that offers all the possibilities to make exceptional wines.

Senzaniente Cerasuolo Rosé 2023

Azienda Agricola Marina Palusci

Terroir, plots, and grape variety

Senzaniente Cerasuolo 2023 comes from the generous hills of Abruzzo, where Montepulciano expresses itself in its rosé version, known as Cerasuolo. On well-drained clay-limestone soils, this emblematic grape variety gives birth to a fruity and vibrant wine, rooted in Italian peasant tradition. The name "Cerasuolo" – literally "cherry" – already announces the color, a blend of indulgence and freshness.

Cultivation methods

At the Marina Palusci estate, the vines are cultivated using natural farming methods, with total commitment: no chemical inputs, no added sulfites. The wine is born from spontaneous fermentations, without technical intervention, in a pure artisanal approach. It is a free wine, born from living organisms, where nothing is masked, nothing is forced.

Tasting & food pairings

With its intense pink, almost light ruby, color, Senzaniente Cerasuolo 2023 is immediately appealing. The nose evokes crisp red fruits – cherry, strawberry, sour cherry – with a light and joyful touch of tangy candy. On the palate, it is an extremely digestible, juicy, light wine, remarkably drinkable. Its direct and fresh profile makes it wonderful as an aperitif, but also a natural companion for antipasti, Neapolitan pizza, or Japanese raw fish. An irresistible, accessible, and joyful natural rosé that will please everyone, even the uninitiated. Serve chilled for a pure moment of summer pleasure.

Alsace 2023 White 2023,

Domaine Einhart

A tribute to traditional Alsace in a modern and refined cuvée
Théo Einhart's Alsace 2023 celebrates the original spirit of Alsace wines with a contemporary interpretation. A blend of Auxerrois, Muscat, Pinot Blanc, and Riesling, this organic AOP Alsace white wine is the result of carefully controlled pre-fermentation maceration and 8 months of aging in stainless steel vats on fine lees. Each grape variety is vinified separately, recalling traditional practices while adding a touch of modern precision.

On the nose, this cuvée reveals a delicate and seductive aromatic palette. Floral notes of white flowers and acacia harmoniously intertwine with fruity aromas of pear and peach. On the palate, the balance is perfect: a round and creamy texture supported by a saline liveliness, with a long and elegant finish that highlights the typicality of the clay-limestone soils.

A wine for sharing and conviviality
With its great drinkability and balance, the Alsace 2023 is a versatile wine that will delight all palates. It lends itself equally well to a convivial aperitif as to more refined meals. It pairs perfectly with fresh cheeses, raw fish, seafood, and even crunchy or roasted vegetables. Its roundness and freshness make it an ideal ally for Alsatian or Mediterranean dishes.

Served between 8 and 10°C and decanted before tasting, this wine will reveal all its nuances. With a 5-year aging potential, it can be enjoyed now or waited to gain complexity.

Cardonohay Blanc 2012

Bodega Barranco Oscuro
This Chardonnay comes from a plot planted at an altitude of 1,300 meters, on schist and clay soils. The harvest ferments in stainless steel vats and is aged for ten months in old barrels.
A natural wine with no added sulfites.

Armagnac by Maurice 2009 Spirits

Hootch

Take advantage of it, not everyone has access to Armagnac by Maurice: organic (Demeter, AB, and Eurofeuille labels), artisanal, it is made by Maurice de Mandelaëre (Domaine de Saoubis), the only biodynamic Armagnac producer. Hootch is responsible for packaging and distributing this small-producer Armagnac with an alcohol content of 49.3%.

Production

100% Baco grape variety grown biodynamically in the Bas-Armagnac region, Armagnac de Maurice XO (Extra-Old) comes from a single barrel where it has been aged for 14 years. It is neither reduced nor filtered, and without coloring. No fertilizers or pesticides in the vineyards, no additives in the cellar. Neither reduced nor filtered, without coloring. Cuvée limited to 494 bottles.

Tasting

The Baco grape variety gives a beautiful complexity to the nose with aromas of vine flowers, bay leaf, spices, and exotic fruits. On the palate, there is great finesse and length with notes of vanilla, flan, tobacco, and flowers. Serve it as a digestif or a light pick-me-up, and you can even eat it with: pastries, desserts, fruits, or charcuterie such as peasant terrines. It will be served alongside beautiful poultry or roasted black Gascon pork.

Learn more about Hootch

Hootch is not a distillery but a distillery developer: created by two childhood friends, Martin and Thomas, it is dedicated to organic and artisanal French spirits, particularly Armagnac. Its mission is to discover small Armagnac producers who have been made invisible by competition from foreign spirits. Hootch packages and distributes these Armagnacs to make them accessible to a wider audience.

Armagnacs by Maurice

Maurice de Mandelaëre is the only biodynamic Armagnac producer (Demeter and AB certified). Its sublime spirits are made with the utmost respect for the soil, the ecosystem, and the environment. Whether old, hors d'âge, or blanche Armagnac (not aged in barrels), Armagnacs by Maurice form the basis of Hootch's catalog. It turns out that the entire production is organic, biodynamic and artisanal.

Discover Armagnac

This alcohol, the oldest in France, is so much more than a drop to flavor a Landes tourtière or a prune ice cream (even if we love that too)! Armagnac is complex, deep, multidimensional, the pure fruit of its terroir, and Hootch gives you a great opportunity to discover it.

XL Xarel·lo White 2020

Partida Creus
XL Xarel·lo is a smoky, explosive, lively, and mineral white wine that is also characterized by excellent drinkability and conviviality combined with uncommon depth and persistence. Classified as a Vino de Mesa (table wine), this is a classic white from the Partida Creus estate that offers a pure and typical expression of the native Catalan grape variety Xarel·lo. It is a good introduction to this winery's many vintages, as it is so representative of their style. Pair XL Blanco with seafood, fish, white meats, and roasted or grilled poultry.

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Partida Creus is an important estate, both from a winemaking and historical perspective—we are talking here about the history of the vine in Catalonia. Massimo Marchiori and Antonella Gerosa, originally from Piedmont—and even from the Langhe region, where wine is well-versed—first pursued careers as architects in Barcelona. But the wine bug tickled them, and they soon abandoned the big city and its sophistication for the vineyards of southern Catalonia, in Bonastre in Baix-Penedés. There they found a number of abandoned vineyards planted with a dizzying diversity of traditional Catalan grape varieties, which they passionately revived to save these varieties—and their wines—from oblivion. For them, it's not just a matter of saving their heritage, no: it's a matter of taste and nature. Of natural wines, which they will never stop making from now on on these sandy, poor, clay-limestone or clay-gravel soils, poor and poorly irrigated, where the vines suffer to produce their best juice. Massimo and Antonella practice organic, biodynamic, entirely manual and natural viticulture in order to give new life to these wines. Vinyater, sumoll, garrut, monastrell, ull de perdiu, ull de llebre, sumoll, queixal de llop, cariñena, trepat, ceciat parent, maccabeu, parellada, pansé, vinel·lo, bobal, cartoixà vermell or xarel·lo: it is a true conservatory of the native Catalan grape varieties that Partida Creus cares for. There is also Moscatel, Grenache, Merlot and Cabernet (among others). Few wineries can boast of growing so many different grape varieties. The wines reflect this diversity, with winemakers striving to best convey the signature of the soil and the grape variety: single varietals are common among them, alongside very rich blends, all in the styles dear to Catalonia: still wine, "ancestral" sparkling wine, and even vermouth. The bottles themselves are works of art: bare glass, simply marked with two large stenciled initials that indicate the cuvée. The wines, fresh, vibrant, lush but always straightforward and impeccably juicy and fruity, breathe life. The arrival of a Partida Creus at the table always elicits cries of satisfaction.

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VS-Fine Calvados, Domaine de la Flaguerie

Vintage Spirit Garage

The Domaine de La Flaguerie and the Ducy orchards are located between Caen and Bayeux, in the Bessin region. The Calvados produced there has an aromatic profile linked to this rolling plain region, more lively, more dynamic, and less well-known to the general public than the rounded, sweet style of the Pays d'Auge. Made from the estate's apples, this organic Calvados (40% alcohol) is a perfect example of the local style: the color is amber, with a nose reminiscent of tobacco, pepper, and cinnamon. On the palate, this spicy liveliness is confirmed before rounding out into vanilla apple. A complex Calvados, long in the mouth, full of elegance.

Les Ponts Rouge 2013, Yann Durieux
100% Pinot Noir. Aromas of wild strawberries.
Natural wine with no added sulfites.

Cul Sec Blanc 2020

Thierry Alexandre
A splendid wine, sumptuously fine and fresh—and it's a Vin de France. The texture is silky and rich, with notes of fresh apple and white peach. Great elegance and purity, a magnificent balance between fruity, floral, and mineral notes. Produced biodynamically and under the Vin de France appellation, Cul sec blanc is the faithful expression of its terroir in the northern Rhône Valley: it is made from Viognier and Marsanne grown biodynamically on granite and gneiss soils in Saint-Jean-de-Muzols, on the banks of the Ardèche near its mouth. The harvest is entirely manual, in small containers, and no inputs are used in the vineyard or the winery. The grapes stay in a cold room while awaiting direct pressing, which is done slowly and gently to extract the best from the fruit. This step is followed by settling, after which the must goes into stainless steel vats to ferment with natural yeasts. The aging is one year, also in stainless steel vats.

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Thierry Alexandre produces little (two hectares in Saint-Jean-de-Muzols, in Ardèche, and a few vines north of Crozes-Hermitage), but he produces well and carefully, all biodynamically and without additives in the vineyard or cellar. His bottles are in the Saint-Joseph, Crozes-Hermitage blanc and Vin de France appellations. The grape varieties are typical of this northern Rhône Valley: Marsanne, Roussanne, Syrah, Viognier. The estate rests on quite varied soils, mainly decomposed granite, as well as gneiss, sandy clay and loess. He practices semicarbonic fermentation in whole bunches for fairly long periods and aging, depending on the vintage, in stainless steel or old barrels. His wines are as rare and sought-after as the winemaker is humble and discreet, but there is nothing haughty or inaccessible about them: pleasant, warm, fluid and well balanced between fruit and mineral, they are wines of pleasure that should be reserved for the most friendly gatherings.

Lulu Rouge 2019,

Patrick Bouju
In Corent, a basalt plot planted with Gamay d'Auvergne grapes over seventy years old has produced this delicious and velvety Lulu cuvée, with animal and spicy notes, and where the red fruits are generously displayed. The destemmed harvest macerates for five months in amphorae. Aged for twelve months in oak barrels. Decanting recommended.
Natural wine with no added sulfites.

Saint-Joseph Les Hauts Rouge 2016, Domaine des Miquettes
This beautiful Syrah in AOP Saint-Joseph is aged for one year in terracotta amphorae. Fresh, balanced, structured but showing a beautiful fusion of tannins, this Saint-Joseph is to be drunk now or kept for a few more years.
Natural wine with no added sulfites.

Beaujolais Village P'tit Grobis Rouge 2021

Nicolas Chemarin
Nicolas Chemarin's P'tit Grobis Rouge is an incredibly vibrant, fruity, mineral, and taut Beaujolais red, capable of converting even the most reluctant to Beaujolais. This is Nicolas's most personal cuvée, which he named after his local nickname. One hundred percent Gamay from the Beaujolais-Villages appellation, with a light ruby ​​color and elegant gurgling, it represents Gamay Noir à jus blanc at its most enjoyable. Light yet full-bodied, beautifully balanced between fruit and minerality, it offers notes of cherry, morello cherry, and raspberry, while perfectly reflecting the granite mineral substrate so important to Beaujolais wines. Nicely acidic and adaptable to all situations: it is both an aperitif and a tasting wine.

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Nicolas Chemarin, nicknamed P’tit Grobis as a resident of Marchampt (Beaujolais), is the fourth generation of winemakers on his family wine estate in the Beaujolais-Villages appellation, on a land full of stones where he crafts wines of surprising depth and sincerity. In 2005, he took over two hectares of vines from his father and in 2006 he signed his first vintages. In 2008, he acquired other vines and decided to devote himself solely to his estate, whose terroir, very steep, consists of rocky and poor soils on a gray granite rock. The vines rest on the bedrock through very thin soil, and their roots plunge deep into the rock. Depending on the soil configuration, the vines are pruned in goblet or raised on stakes. Their average age is eighty years. The grape varieties, Gamay and Chardonnay, are classically Beaujolais. Nicolas also cultivates two other terroirs in the Régnié appellation: Les Bullats, with light, filtering sandy soils, and La Haute Ronze, very close to Morgon, whose deeper, clayey soils produce full-bodied wines. The vintages undergo long macerations (from 18 to 30 days) with punching down and temperature control (Nicolas works cold, around 20°C). Aging is partially done in temperature-controlled concrete vats for a third, the remaining two-thirds being spent in barrels of four to ten wines to provide oxygenation but little or no oaky sensation. Nicolas Chemarin is already well known in the natural world for his sweet and fruity vintages, pleasure wines, and for vintages from difficult and magnificent terroirs, with admirable and complex mineral, aromatic and spicy notes.