A Visit to Punta Crena
by Cassie Majidi
For years, I’ve been dying to take my husband on an Italian adventure. I wanted to fully immerse ourselves in the culture, eat the food, see vineyards, and experience all of the things that I love about Italy. This spring, I finally settled on Piemonte and Liguria, and from the beginning, I knew I wanted to visit our only producer along the Ligurian coast: Punta Crena…
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For years, I’ve been dying to take my husband on an Italian adventure. I wanted to fully immerse ourselves in the culture, eat the food, see vineyar...
For years, I’ve been dying to take my husband on an Italian adventure. I wanted to fully immerse ourselves in the culture, eat the food, see vineyards, and experience all of the things that I love about Italy. This spring, I finally settled on Piemonte and Liguria, and from the beginning, I knew I wanted to visit our only producer along the Ligurian coast: Punta Crena…

Wines in this Collection

2023 Lumassina Frizzante
Italy | Liguria
July Club Chevalier ~ Pair this coastal fizzy white with spicy shrimp.

2023 Lumassina
Italy | Liguria
A gently flowery, low-alcohol white that presents a barely noticeable spritz.

2023 Pigato “Vigneto Ca da Rena”
Italy | Liguria
Supremely crisp and mineral, this is an ideal representation of this coastal region and perfect for seafood.

2023 Colline Savonesi Mataòssu “Vigneto Reiné”
Italy | Liguria
Lean, bracing, and tangy—just what you want when digging into a plate of fried calamari.

2023 Rossese “Vigneto Isasco”
Italy | Liguria
All the care, attentiveness, and backbreaking labor required to farm this site result in one of the most joyful and lighthearted reds you will encounter.

Taggiasca Pitted Olives in Oil
Italy | Liguria
The first jar feels like a special treat, but by the second or third you realize they’re a pantry staple.

2022 Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Italy | Liguria
This oil is light, aromatic, and flavorful—perfect for fish, salads, and other Mediterranean cuisine
Lapierre is still on the cutting edge globally of what can be achieved with zero-intervention, totally free winemaking, which of course must by defini...
Lapierre is still on the cutting edge globally of what can be achieved with zero-intervention, totally free winemaking, which of course must by definition start with maniacal viticulture that produces grapes that can stand up to the rigors of their technique (or lack thereof!). The Lapierre name remains a benchmark for the greatest Gamay produced on planet Earth. These wines are delicious proof...

Wines in this Collection

2024 Vin de France Rouge “Raisins Gaulois”
France | Beaujolais
This juicy red—brimming with bright, playful fruit—is low in alcohol and delightfully refreshing.

2024 Beaujolais “Le Beaujolais”
France | Beaujolais
It tastes more like top-class Morgon, with loads of bright cherry and silky violets, only it’s made from parcels just beyond the Morgon AOC boundaries.

2023 Morgon
France | Beaujolais
The domaine’s flagship bottling, crafted from vines averaging sixty years old from a variety of sites across the Morgon appellation. Inviting aromatics, succulent flesh, juicy finish.
Le Marche may well be Italy’s most underrated region. Featuring striking landscapes from mountains down to the Adriatic Sea, countless quaint v...
Le Marche may well be Italy’s most underrated region. Featuring striking landscapes from mountains down to the Adriatic Sea, countless quaint villages largely ignored by tourists, and an irresistible local cuisine, it is a hidden treasure oozing with charm and authenticity…

Wines in this Collection

2024 Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi
Italy | Le Marche
A crisp, linear white with subtle aromas of flowers and herbs, this is an all-purpose bargain sipper made for aperitivo, salads, and seafood.

2024 Rosso Piceno
Italy | Le Marche
Robust enough for heartier fare, it also takes well to a chill, in case you need to dunk it in an ice bucket to keep cool on a hot day.
The old winemaking adage says that you only have one shot each year to get the vintage right. While this idea may be daunting to a vigneron, we see th...
The old winemaking adage says that you only have one shot each year to get the vintage right. While this idea may be daunting to a vigneron, we see things a bit differently: one vintage per year means that we are always looking forward to a new batch of wines from all our favorite producers…

Wines in this Collection

2023 Vigneti delle Dolomiti Schiava
Italy | Alto Adige
An ethereal red with a little spice.

2024 Sancerre Rosé
France | Loire
Sancerre Rosé is made from Pinot Noir grown in Kimmeridgian limestone soil, and the Neveu family’s interpretation is fine, floral, crisp, and bone-dry.

2023 Erbaluce di Caluso “Tredicimesi”
Italy | Piedmont
Both generous and chiseled, it evokes orchard fruit, citrus, and has an irresistibly saline finish.

2023 Salina Malvasia “Abissale”
Italy | Sicily
A textured and luscious dry white with the ravishing perfume of citrus blossoms and a real “wow” factor, this is a masterpiece from the maestro of the Aeolians.

2023 Dolcetto d’Alba “V. Pari”
Italy | Piedmont
Prime placement in a great vineyard site provides exquisite balance, gentle tannin, and notes of brambly fruit.

2024 Vin de Pays de Vaucluse Rouge
France | Southern Rhône
Hailing from a parcel of co-planted vines adjacent to the family home, these varieties were planted together with the express purpose of making the house rouge, the everyday vibrant and juicy drink you’d bring to the table in a jug and drink out of a cup.

2023 Barbera d’Alba “Gens Hoelia”
Italy | Piedmont
Inky in color, dark purple fruit, hints of licorice…this is a food-lover’s friend, especially in winter months.

2024 Roussette de Savoie “Les Craies”
France | Savoie, Bugey, Hautes-Alpes
The wine is bone-dry but offers a wonderful nose of bergamot and honeysuckle, along with a zippy freshness supported by all the Alpine minerality you would expect from fruit grown in stony soils in the Alps.

2023 Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise
France | Southern Rhône
This lovely Muscat is full of fresh honeysuckle and ripe citrus fruit.

2024 Toscana Sauvignon
Italy | Tuscany
The Sesti Sauvignon yields a crisp, flowery white that’s a beautiful match for locally caught seafood or a bright summer salad.
A curated collection of thirst-quenching Mediterranean rosés to complement panisses & all manner of al fresco summer snacking.
A curated collection of thirst-quenching Mediterranean rosés to complement panisses & all manner of al fresco summer snacking.

Wines in this Collection

2024 Patrimonio Rosé “Cuvée de l’Agriate”
France | Corsica
This pomegranate-tinged rosé is remarkably fresh, pure, and focused, with a filtered-through-granite minerality.

2024 Toscana Rosato
Italy | Tuscany
Gentle and mouth-filling, this rosato is perked up by a touch of salinity imbued by the oceanic soil.

2024 Côtes de Provence Rosé
France | Provence
An uplifting elixir of bright citrus, fresh berry fruit, wild herbs, and salty sea air, it is perhaps the quintessential Provençal refresher.

2024 Bandol Rosé
France | Provence
Bursting with clementine, white peach, and lavender, Agnès Henry’s rosé is divine with summer dishes.

2024 Bandol Rosé
France | Provence
It takes just one sniff to be transported to Provence; garrigue-laced, and superb with salty snacks like panisses.

2024 Rosato “Barrosu”
Italy | Sardinia
It offers deep complexity and layers of flavor, like a nectar of crushed strawberries with a savory, stony finish.

2024 Vin de France Rosé “Faustine”
France | Corsica
Infused with seaspray and stone, the resulting rosé boasts a glistening, sunkissed quality, loaded with sour cherry and pomelo citrus.

2024 Vin de Corse Rosé “Gris de Marquiliani”
France | Corsica
A gentle wave of peach, melon, and spring flowers rolls over the palate and lingers long past your last sip.

2024 Valle d’Itria Rosato “Le Rotaie”
Italy | Puglia
A delicious aperitivo, it can seamlessly pair with anything you throw its way.

2020 Vino Rosato “SuperLuna”
Italy | Sicily
A rosé made via ancient methods from ashy soils high on Mount Etna.
In a way, it’s a blessing that Valentin Montanet’s northern corner of Burgundy isn’t home to any premiers or grands crus. Under no pressure to d...
In a way, it’s a blessing that Valentin Montanet’s northern corner of Burgundy isn’t home to any premiers or grands crus. Under no pressure to do anything too grand or fussy with Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, or Melon de Bourgogne, Valentin’s greatest ambition is to make the most pure and joyous whites and reds possible…

Wines in this Collection

2023 Vin de France Blanc Melon de Bourgogne
France | Burgundy
The grape is better known as the Loire Valley’s delicate, citrusy Muscadet, but grown in the land from whence it’s named, it takes on lovely length and texture.

2023 Bourgogne Blanc
France | Burgundy
A thirst-quenching, spirit-lifting, and downright delicious white Burgundy.

2023 Vézelay Blanc “La Châtelaine”
France | Burgundy
La Châtelaine highlights what may be the best terroir of Vézelay and why this little appellation is on the map in the first place.

2023 Bourgogne Rouge
France | Burgundy
All you need to know is that this wine drinks like a Beaujolais with loads of black, sappy fruit and is ounce per ounce more pleasurable and delicious than anything you’d find in a collector’s stash.
Once I left Burgundy and began exploring elsewhere, I noticed that France and Italy produced incredible bargains, especially if one looked where no on...
Once I left Burgundy and began exploring elsewhere, I noticed that France and Italy produced incredible bargains, especially if one looked where no one else was looking. Nothing makes me prouder (commercially speaking, anyway) than returning home with yet another fine wine bargain for you...

Wines in this Collection

2024 Vino Bianco
Italy | Piedmont
The unique blend of Favorita, Moscato, Arneis, and Chardonnay is dry but not tart, fruity but not cloying, and held together with a gentle effervescence.

2023 Beaumes-de-Venise Rouge
France | Southern Rhône
Grenache is joined by Syrah and a drop of Mourvèdre to create this delightful everyday red scented of herbes de Provence and ripe black cherry.

Rosato Spumante Brut “Il Rosa”
Italy | Veneto
A spritzy rosato with scents of frutti di bosco and wildflowers.

2023 Mâcon-Villages
France | Burgundy
A longtime personal favorite for the weeknight go-to blanc, citrusy fresh with just the right hint of salted butter to round it out.

2023 Côtes du Rhône Rouge
France | Southern Rhône
A fresh, pure entry point to the Rhône’s great reds with aromas and flavors of black cherries, stones, and a hint of black olive.

2022 Dolcetto di Diano d’Alba “Sörì Santa Lucia”
Italy | Piedmont
June Adventures Club ~ Real refreshment, plus a serious side and good concentration from old vines in chalky marl soils.

2022 Languedoc Rouge “Lou Maset”
France | Languedoc-Roussillon
There is a strangely beautiful harmony between earth, sun, and man.

2023 Pinot Blanc
France | Alsace
New to Alsatian wine? This is the perfect place to start.

2021 Pic Saint Loup Rouge
France | Languedoc-Roussillon
There is something timeless to La Roque’s Pic Saint Loup, its herbal bouquet and rich, fleshy texture, all free from any hint of modern trappings.

2023 Corbières Rosé “Gris de Gris”
France | Languedoc-Roussillon
A cold glass hits the spot every single time, bursting over the taste buds with bright citrus, wild strawberry, and a juicy finish.
Here is a collection of recent arrivals. Every week, we’ll be adding a dozen or more new arrivals, so check back often for your favorite classics or...
Here is a collection of recent arrivals. Every week, we’ll be adding a dozen or more new arrivals, so check back often for your favorite classics or new discoveries!
Wines in this Collection

2024 Île de Beauté Blanc “E Croce”
France | Corsica
You’ll taste the salty sea breeze in this wine.

2022 Saint-Chinian Rouge “Sortilège”
France | Languedoc-Roussillon
Full of freshness and detailed elegance, with not a hint of rusticity.

2023 Crozes-Hermitage Rouge
France | Northern Rhône
This small parcel has a fruit-forward, approachable style, yet with intense spice and licorice in there as well, perhaps from the deep-rooted old Syrah vines.

2023 Ardèche Syrah “Syrah Mauve”
France | Northern Rhône
Young vines in Mauves, short maceration, stainless-steel aged... but definitely no simple Syrah!

2023 Collines Rhodaniennes Viognier “Les Ruisseaux”
France | Northern Rhône
Amid the lush fruit runs a delicate current of minerality that lingers on the tongue, as if the wine cascaded down a granite slope on its way into your glass.

2023 Bourgogne Côte d’Or Rouge
France | Burgundy
This wine embodies the qualities that enchant and thrill us most about red Burgundy.

2021 Pays d’Hérault Rouge
Domaine de la Grange des Pères
France | Languedoc-Roussillon
Grange des Pères defies categorization and redefines greatness.

2023 Bourgogne Rouge
France | Burgundy
All you need to know is that this wine drinks like a Beaujolais with loads of black, sappy fruit and is ounce per ounce more pleasurable and delicious than anything you’d find in a collector’s stash.

2024 Vin de Pays de Vaucluse Blanc
France | Southern Rhône
This refreshing blend of Chardonnay and Viognier brings aromas of fresh sun-kissed peaches and cleansing rainwater.

2023 Cahors
France | Southwest
Consistently great year in and year out. It possesses class, country soul, and more-than-meets-the-eye complexity.
An ever-changing offering of wines that are just about to sell out; one last opportunity to seize a range of selections before they disappear from our...
An ever-changing offering of wines that are just about to sell out; one last opportunity to seize a range of selections before they disappear from our shelves forever.

Wines in this Collection

2020 Lagrein Riserva “Di Ora in Ora”
Italy | Alto Adige
This cuvée is dark-fruited velvet in a bottle.

2020 Isola Dei Nuraghi Bianco “Prama Dorada”
Italy | Sardinia
A field blend of Vermentino and other native Sardinian grapes, one week maceration; deep, broad, savory, and salty

2021 Collioure Rouge “La Pinède”
France | Languedoc-Roussillon
If you can’t make it to the south of France this year, here’s a way to bring the Mediterranean sun to you.

Spumante Metodo Classico Extra Brut
Italy | Sicily
A citrusy and floral sparkler with a stony, bone-dry finish. Mamma mia!

2023 Ile de Beauté Rouge
France | Corsica
A Corsican red from a rosé specialist.

2020 Veneto Garganega “Sera”
Italy | Veneto
Four months of skin contact leaves this Garganega from Vignato Davide bursting with fragrant clementine and almond blossoms, while volcanic soil imparts lingering salinity.

2021 Vin de France Rosé Grolleau/Cabernet Franc “Les Arceaux”
France | Loire
Intensely dry and mineral, the structured Les Arceaux is a bottle to pair with a meal rather than to drink as an apéritif.

2017 Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso “Morus Nigra”
Italy | Friuli
Ultra elegant yet energized, fresh, and juicy. An all-natural wine that’s just easy to love.

2022 Isola Dei Nuraghi “Familia”
Italy | Sardinia
This inky, chewy blend of Cannonau with the native Muristellu boasts a strikingingly wild perfume that soars from the glass.

2021 Chignin-Bergeron “Les Terrasses”
France | Savoie, Bugey, Hautes-Alpes
Grown on near-vertical limestone scree slopes, Bergeron reaches incredible heights here, yielding a blanc full of character and flavors of peach, tangerine, and pine resin.
When the esteemed French wine artist Michel Tolmer created beautiful artwork for our 50th anniversary, we knew right away that we had to feature it on...
When the esteemed French wine artist Michel Tolmer created beautiful artwork for our 50th anniversary, we knew right away that we had to feature it on a few select items of merch. After spending maybe a little too much time researching the options, we landed on a classy, leather-strap cap, a comfortable t-shirt made from 100% cotton, and a tote made with incredibly sturdy, fair-trade, and organic cotton by a certified B corp that invests in the livelihoods of women and farmers of India, featuring three wine sleeves and two other compartments for all of your other needs!

Wines in this Collection

Kermit Lynch 50th Anniversary T-shirt
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Kermit Lynch 50th Anniversary T-shirt
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Kermit Lynch Tolmer Hat
Our bold, original color. An instant classic.

Kermit Lynch Tolmer T-Shirt Red Medium
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Kermit Lynch Tolmer Hat
Just arrived, it’s corduroy, and wide whale as well!

Wine Sleeve with 50th Anniversary Art by Michel Tolmer
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Kermit Lynch Tolmer T-Shirt Blue XL
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Kermit Lynch Tolmer T-Shirt Red XL
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Our five wine clubs feature our best values from France and Italy as well as complex and cellar-worthy wines.
Our five wine clubs feature our best values from France and Italy as well as complex and cellar-worthy wines.

Wines in this Collection

2022 Corbières Rouge “Réserve La Demoiselle”
France | Languedoc-Roussillon
Hailing from the rugged and windswept hills of Corbières, which teem with garrigue and olive groves, La Demoiselle delivers a glorious taste of the South.

2022 Friuli Colli Orientali Pinot Grigio “Ronco Pitotti”
Italy | Friuli
June Club Bianco ~ From the flowers on the nose to the fruit on the palate, and on through the succulent finish, it’s simply a joy to drink.

2024 Cheverny
France | Loire
Sauvignon and a splash of Chardonnay: the epitome of minerally Loire refreshment

2019 Alto Adige Sauvignon “Voglar”
Italy | Alto Adige
June Club Gourmand ~ The uncommon location and treatment capture a different face of this very familiar variety, deep and mouth-filling yet carrying a bracing jolt of limey acidity.

2023 Pinot Blanc
France | Alsace
New to Alsatian wine? This is the perfect place to start.

2024 Vino Rosato
Italy | Piedmont
June Club Gourmand ~ Each refreshing sip goes down lighter than air, keeping your palate clean and refreshed for whatever comes next.

2022 Pic Saint-Loup Rouge
France | Languedoc-Roussillon
Maybe it’s the biodynamic farming, but these wines always seem to have an extra gear when it comes to aromatics and sheer deliciousness.

2023 Ventoux Rouge “Mégaphone”
France | Southern Rhône
Fragrant aromas of lavender and garrigue, notes of perfectly ripe black cherries, hints of black olive and stones.

2016 Fronsac
France | Bordeaux
June Club Gourmand ~ There is nothing overdone in this chiseled, elegant cuvée made from organically grown and pampered Merlot.

2023 Rosso di Montalcino
Italy | Tuscany
July Club Chevalier ~ Sesti‘s Rosso di Montalcino, with its seductive and mood-enhancing perfume, is like a delicious elixir of black cherry, bitter herbs, and fragrant violet.