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For a traditional, old-school grower keen to avoid the limelight, Cavallotto are not doing a great job staying out of the headlines. Off the back of a run of stellar vintages, Barolo specialist Kerin O’Keefe awarded Cavallotto her Barolo Winery of 2025 accolade this year. O’Keefe’s peers at Vinous and The Wine Advocate have been equally effusive.

Our first tranche of 2024 white Burgundies are starting to arrive. The headline news is that 2024 heralds a return to a more classic model of white Burgundy: delicious wines of modest alcohol, bright acidity and cool fruit flavours.

This exciting Jura collaboration between Beaune star David Croix and his friend (and local) Damien Courbet is certainly coming to the boil. In today’s email, we offer the pair’s first set of red wines; a Trousseau and Poulsard from vines sited close to Château-Chalon. We already know how good this project’s whites can be; it will come as little surprise that the reds follow suit. 

As one of our insightful clients put it at a recent event in Melbourne with Tesseron’s Matthieu Chapoutier, “You can buy more famous names in Cognac, but you can’t buy better.” How true. In a story that mimics that of the top grower-producers in Champagne (vs. the Grandes Marques houses), the remarkable quality and distinctive, vinous style of Tesseron’s predominantly XO Cognacs have allowed this artisanal producer to carve out a niche among the giants of Cognac. 

Jean-Marie Guffens is one of France’s most revered wine makers. Though best known for his brilliant wines from the Mâcon, the wines from his southern Estate should not be overlooked! Nor should remarkable his Barsacs, where Château Closiot has quickly become a regional benchmark (at very fair prices). But that’s a discussion for another day. Château des Tourettes is Guffens’ Domaine in the Luberon—a stretch of magnificent, hilly vineyards between Avignon and Aix-en-Provence.

“The key to these wines’ success is that they don’t hammer you over the head with the philosophy behind them, expressing their variety of lieux-dits with style and, prosaically, sheer deliciousness. Readers should seek out the superb single-site offerings from Saint-Véran or their Pouilly-Vinzelles, the last vintage before Premier Cru will be attached to its name.” Neal Martin, Vinous

Chermette’s 2024 Griottes is a punchy crowd-pleaser with loads of crunchy blueberry fruit and exuberant cherrystone tang. This is just the kind of Beaujolais the late Marcelle Lapierre referred to when he said, “Ça se boit sous la douche.” (It’s a wine you can drink under the shower.)

Matthieu Baudry continues to find new ways to progress his family Domaine and grow Cabernet Franc with ever more finesse. Sure, the father’s wines and choice of vineyards lit the torch—but the son’s progressive, outward-looking philosophy in the vineyard and cellar has taken everything to a new level. On top of an already impressive organic program, Baudry is now in his third year of biodynamic farming. Meanwhile, in the Domaine’s limestone-carved cellars, smaller oak vessels are making way for more large-format and concrete. The results are looking impressive indeed.

Aligoté’s fortunes have improved markedly since we began shipping this great-value Burgundy fifteen years ago. Yet here is a Burgundian Domaine where, unlike the Côte d’Or, Aligoté never fell out of fashion; even after phylloxera devastated the region, Guilhem Goisot’s ancestors replanted the variety on high, cool north-facing slopes located above the pretty Yonne town of Saint-Bris-le-Vineux. 

For all the riches it has to offer wine lovers, the alpine melting pot of Alto Adige remains a secret, guarded within Italy’s borders. Set amid the sawtooth limestone peaks of South Tyrol, this region’s wine culture has more in common with the neighbouring Austria and Germany than the rest of Italy.

By any measure, Philip Togni has led an extraordinary life in wine. Even in his ninth decade, he continues to inspire California’s wine scene. Accolades keep coming. Awarding Togni’s 2021 Cabernet Wine of the Year (2024), Antoni Galloni noted that, “Many of [Togni’s] recent releases have been positively stellar.” That praise applies not just to the iconic 2021...

Alongside the new vintage of Bérêche’s sensational Campania Remensis Rosé, today we offer our first allocation of Raphael Bérêche’s newest chef-d’oeuvre. Ten years in the making, and first released from the 2o14 vintage, Une Champagne is Bérêche’s tribute to Champagne’s long tradition of blending across its sub-regions. Disgorged ten years after harvest, the limited-release 2015 is an intense and explosive blend of the cellar’s finest barrels from Beaux Regards, Le Cran, Avize, Cramant, Ambonnay, Mailly and Aÿ.