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Staff Favorites

If you’re going to have Robert Parker or Stephen Tanzer over for dinner, selecting a wine they’ve rated highly will be a nice choice. However, when you’re buying wines for yourself, we’d love to see you find wines that match up your unique palate and pocketbook. We have a large staff of friendly and knowledgeable wine professionals that taste hundreds of wines each week. They can put you in touch with bottles that you are likely to love, often at a much lower cost than the highly-rated gems that often see a run-up in price and frequent availability issues. Like any great group of opinionated professionals, our staff has varied tastes themselves. Often our customers will find a particular staff member with a style that corresponds to their own. That concept works extremely well in our retail stores, and this section is our effort to bring you the same online. Don’t get us wrong, we love the highly rated wines from the press and will continue to offer them, but we think you’re missing out if you’re not augmenting those selections with picks from our excellent staff. Here are their favorites. (Click on a name to see their other selections - or to drop them a line.) Cheers!

Reviews

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2023 Maggy Hawk "Estate" Anderson Valley Pinot Noir
Reviwer Picture By: Ryan Woodhouse | Review Date: 10/12/2026 | Send Email
An exceptionally rare proposition today...a 99-point, estate-grown and produced Pinot Noir for under $50! I searched our entire inventory of more than 6,000 SKUs, and this is the only wine we have in stock that can boast those unicorn-like credentials! What's more, right now we're the only retailer in the country with this wine available to customers! We have a longstanding relationship with Maggy Hawk Estate, and I jumped on this wine early. I can also confirm that this beauty absolutely lives up to the hype! Coming from 20+ year-old vines planted just 16 miles from the Pacific Ocean in the cool, foggy "Deep End" of Anderson Valley, this is a wildly aromatic and seductive Pinot Noir. Planted largely to Dijon clones 115 and 777, the vineyard produces wines of remarkable purity, complexity, and elegance. The wine opens with lifted aromas of rose petal, baking spice, ripe black raspberry, clove, spiced cherry, and subtle hints of redwood grove. The palate is both lush and vibrant, with a plush, generous mid-palate showing wonderful purity of fruit, balanced by fresh acidity, woodsy spices, and intriguing notes of dried citrus peel. Silky and polished through the finish, with lingering impressions of ripe bramble fruit and Christmas cake spices. This wine delivers on every level. It's a wonderfully expressive, beautifully composed Pinot Noir that will delight just about anyone who appreciates pure, silky, sophisticated expressions of the variety. I can absolutely see why this wine earned such massive critical praise. Get it while we have it! A 99-point, estate-grown Pinot Noir for under $50 is the kind of opportunity that almost never comes around!
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WE: 99
Maison 76 Bouzy Grand Cru Brut Champagne
Reviwer Picture By: Scott Beckerley | Review Date: 10/9/2026 | Send Email
Don't you just love to say the word "Bouzy"? I know that I do. It's just fun! Plus, this village is charming and some of the best Pinot Noir fruit in all of Champagne is here. The rich and clean nose gives it away. You immediately smell the rich apples and tart cherry fruits. The heady caramelized apple scents do not give away the very low dosage. This takes place with the starting flavors of tart cinnamon citrus. The mid-palate expands quickly and the tart apple flavors segue way into brioche, cream, and candied ginger. The finish shows off the Chardonnay with lemon cream and a hint of key lime. The bead is quite fine and it goes on and on in the glass.
Price: $54.99 Add To Cart
2018 Maxime Toubart "Pur Meunier" Brut Champagne
Reviwer Picture By: Scott Beckerley | Review Date: 10/9/2026 | Send Email
As is the case with the 2008 Toubart, this is another vintage bubble with a great price. The nose starts out very cleanly with scents of apple skin, white pear fruit, toasted almonds and cookie dough scents. On the palate, a nice dose of tartness, followed by roasted pears, tart apple, a little nutmeg and some whipping cream. There is a nice long and dry finish with very nice acidity. Fresh and clean. This one is for you, Phil!
Price: $49.99 Add To Cart
2008 Maxime Toubart "Heritage" Brut Champagne
Reviwer Picture By: Scott Beckerley | Review Date: 10/9/2026 | Send Email
Such a surprise to have both a new estate in our portfolio and a bubble from such a great vintage! The nose started out with a nice saline scent followed closely by scents of caramel, shortbread and gingersnaps. In the mouth, quite rich with round orchard fruits, clean shaved ginger and a long finish of citrus and light chalkiness. This is a pretty crazy deal for this quality and vintage!
Price: $59.99 Add To Cart
2023 Mayacamas Mount Veeder Chardonnay
Reviwer Picture By: Ryan Woodhouse | Review Date: 10/9/2026 | Send Email
Today we have an extremely rare offer from a winery whose wines you almost never see discounted below full retail pricing. Thanks to our close relationship with the producer, we were offered a parcel of this extraordinary Chardonnay at a fantastic price, and we're passing those savings directly on to our Insider's Advantage mailing list members! If I were forced to declare a favorite winery in Napa Valley, I think it would have to be Mayacamas. This incredible, historic property, perched high on the slopes of Mount Veeder, has long produced some of the most distinctive, age-worthy, and utterly compelling wines in the world. Originally founded in 1889, the stunning stone winery building is carved into the mountainside some 2,200 feet above the valley floor. With a long tradition of crafting classically styled, elegant yet structured wines, the current winemaking team of Andy Erickson, Braiden Albrecht, and Chris Rush continues to produce truly singular wines that beautifully encapsulate this magical terroir. While Mayacamas is probably best known for its Cabernet Sauvignon-based wines, to this day, my most memorable bottle from the estate was a 1979 Chardonnay, poured from magnum back in 2016. It was an absolutely unforgettable wine! Since the 1960s, Mayacamas Chardonnay has been made in a focused, linear style that ages incredibly well while offering a wonderfully broad drinking window. The low-yielding vines, growing in extremely rocky volcanic soils, produce concentrated, intensely flavorful fruit. From there, the winemaking focuses on preserving freshness, purity, and vibrancy. The wine is aged predominantly in large-format, neutral oak vessels, including 500L and 1,000L foudres. A portion is matured in traditional French oak barriques, but only around 5% new wood is used. The wine also does not undergo malolactic fermentation, allowing it to retain that laser-like focus, tension, and energy that have become hallmarks of Mayacamas Chardonnay. The aromatics are absolutely captivating, with layers of orchard blossom, lemon oil, crushed quince, freshly zested citrus, lemon verbena, wet granite, barley water, and subtle almond paste. The palate is so vibrant and energetic, with beautifully concentrated fruit, crystalline acidity, and minerality in spades. There's a wonderful interplay between the wine's depth and richness and its remarkable precision and freshness. It's drinking beautifully right now, but there's clearly still a long and fascinating journey ahead for this extraordinary Chardonnay. Truly world-class Chardonnay from one of California's most iconic estates, offered at a remarkably reasonable price. Opportunities like this don't come along very often!
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JS: 95
TWP: 95
VN: 94
Gilbert Jacquesson "Cuvée Selection" Brut Champagne
Reviwer Picture By: Ben Niedelman | Review Date: 10/9/2026 | Send Email
This wine is the newest in Gilbert-Jacquesson’s stable, created as a nod to many Champagne producers’ “house style.” It’s 40% base vintage 2020, with the remaining 60% reserve wines going back as far as 10 years, so the edges of the vintage are smoothed in favor of a consistent, ultra-pleasurable drinking experience. The blend is 40% Pinot Meunier and 30% each of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, giving the Cuvee a fine, light bead backed by full-bodied, savory fruit notes. The long, lip-smacking finish leaves your taste buds begging for more.
Price: $39.99 Add To Cart
Gilbert Jacquesson "Cuvée Prestige" Brut Champagne
Reviwer Picture By: Ben Niedelman | Review Date: 10/9/2026 | Send Email
The Prestige has earned its place as Jean-Baptiste’s top cuvee; using reserves of a very special Pinot Meunier aged in a solera started in the 2000’s and spending years on the lees gives this wine a unique expressiveness and that indescribable “iron fist in a velvet glove” quality I can never resist. The current cuvee is built on the 2019 vintage and is a 40/30/30 blend of Pinot Meunier/Chardonnay/Pinot Noir. It has all the beautiful, toasted hazelnut and honey notes that make it oh-so-irresistible now, but with the structure and acidity to reward cellaring. This is a “wow” champagne!
Price: $39.99 Add To Cart
Gilbert Jacquesson "Cuvée Eugénie" Brut Rosé Champagne
Reviwer Picture By: Ben Niedelman | Review Date: 10/9/2026 | Send Email
This lively rose is the perfect bottle to bring some extra sparkle to a gathering! The clear glass bottle ensures the vibrant color is eye-catching from across the room and the crisp finish keeps you coming back for more. The lovely pale pink color comes from a small percentage of still red wine made from old-vine Pinot Meunier and blended into the cuvee. Like all of Gilbert-Jacquesson wines, this 100% Meunier has vivid, spicy aromatics, and crisp fruit. A perfect pairing for a warm evening or Thanksgiving dinner!
Price: $34.99 Add To Cart
Gilbert Jacquesson "Cuvée Tradition" Blanc de Noirs Brut Champagne
Reviwer Picture By: Ben Niedelman | Review Date: 10/9/2026 | Send Email
Every part of this champagne has been crafted to showcase Jean-Baptiste’s mastery of the Meunier grape. From the moment you first smell the exuberance of the baking spice-and-fruit driven nose, you know you’ve found a winner. The rich, toasty mid-palate reveals hints of warm caramel that can only be found in high-quality champagnes made from 100% Pinot Meunier grapes. With an astounding 50% of the blend coming from reserve wines and aged 3 years on the lees, no other champagne on the market offers this much quality for the price. Don’t let the price-tag fool you, though: this is an extremely delicious bottle of bubbly masquerading as weeknight dinner companion.
Price: $29.99 Add To Cart
2025 Randi "Rambela" Rambela Bianca Romagna
Reviwer Picture By: Orazio Campoli | Review Date: 10/8/2026 | Send Email
Famoso is the Ravenna plain's own aromatic grape, a historic variety that had all but vanished before a group of growers around Bagnacavallo recovered it, had it entered in the national register in 2009 and gave it back its dialect name, Rambëla. Randi has made wine in Fusignano since the early 1950s, and under Massimo Randi it has become the variety's standard-bearer: four organically farmed hectares planted in 2007 on the sandy clay of the Bassa Romagna, cordon-trained at a modest three thousand vines per hectare, with the Bianca vinified in steel alone so that the perfume arrives unedited. In the glass, it pours a pale straw with green glints. The nose is elderflower, sage, white peach and orange blossom, with a cool, chalky note beneath the fruit: a Traminer-like perfume without Traminer's weight. On the palate it is dry and light-bodied, with fresh acidity, a soft saline undertow and a faint bitter-almond grip that gives the finish its shape.
Price: $18.99 Add To Cart
Maison 76 Bouzy Grand Cru Brut Champagne
Reviwer Picture By: Thomas Zacharia | Review Date: 10/8/2026 | Send Email
This is irresistible champagne. What else do you need to know? Based on the 2018 vintage, entirely barrel fermented. and having spent 8 full years on the lees, it seems impossible that this bottle of bubbly liquid gold is only $54.99. Rich, powerful, and with stellar depth, this bottling is broad shouldered and thrilling from start to finish.
Price: $54.99 Add To Cart
2022 K&L Discovery Series Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Reviwer Picture By: Thomas Zacharia | Review Date: 10/8/2026 | Send Email
Made by Rudolphe Dupin, the talent behind our best-selling Montfaucon wines, this is a great value from Châteauneuf-du-Pape! Deeply fruited aromatics waft enticingly from the glass and carry straight through to a broad, generous palate full of deep, silky fruits, and touches of wild herbs. Great stuff!
Price: $29.99 Add To Cart
2008 Maxime Toubart "Heritage" Brut Champagne
Reviwer Picture By: Thomas Zacharia | Review Date: 10/8/2026 | Send Email
There are 3 certainties in life: Death, taxes, and current release 2008 champagne of this quality, at this price point, does not exist. And yet, here one is, staring you in the face, at a price to make you do a spit take! You're wondering, what's the catch? The answer: Nothing! After 16 years on the lees, this wine is just so delicious, full of rich butterscotch and clove notes, beautiful brioche character, and fragrant aromatics. Bravo, Monsieur Westby, on this stellar find!
Price: $59.99 Add To Cart
2025 Cherrier Frères Sancerre
Reviwer Picture By: Keith Mabry | Review Date: 10/8/2026 | Send Email
We've worked with brothers Jean-Marie and François Cherrier for more than 20 years, and their wines remain one of the benchmarks for value in Sancerre. For us, they've long served as a lodestar for what classic Loire Valley Sauvignon Blanc should be. It was great to reconnect with the family at Wine Paris earlier this year and taste through the new releases. As the next generation becomes increasingly involved in the domaine, the Cherriers are finding exciting new ways to build upon a tradition that has made them one of our most trusted partners. The 2025 vintage was a challenging one, with reduced yields across much of the region. Fortunately, our long-standing relationship has helped preserve the majority of our allocation, even if quantities are a bit tighter than usual. The new Sancerre captures everything we love about the estate's style. Aromas of Meyer lemon and ruby red grapefruit lead the way, followed by hints of nectarine, wild thyme, and white flowers. The palate shows impressive ripeness and polish, delivering generous texture and concentration without sacrificing freshness or balance. Year after year, this remains one of the most re-ordered wines in the category. If you've yet to discover what makes Cherrier such a perennial favorite, the outstanding 2025 vintage is the perfect place to start.
Price: $24.99 Add To Cart
2025 Cherrier Frères "Domaine du Loriot" Menetou-Salon
Reviwer Picture By: Keith Mabry | Review Date: 10/8/2026 | Send Email
The region of Menetou-Salon lies just southwest of Sancerre, and its vineyards share much of the same prized clay and limestone soils that have made its neighbor so famous. That continuity of terroir brings similar detail, tension, and depth — but often without the same level of attention. One of our core Direct Import Sancerre producers, Cherrier Freres, farms a small, separate property here known as Domaine Loriot. The soils at Loriot contain a higher proportion of terres blanches, the dense clay-limestone mix that tends to lend more weight and breadth to the wines. In the hands of the Cherrier family, that translates to a lush yet focused Sauvignon Blanc layered with Meyer lemon, white peach, and Red Delicious apple. Subtle notes of fresh grass and bay leaf nod clearly to the variety. Pure, expressive, and beautifully balanced — and at nearly half the price of many Sancerres — this is one of the strongest values in the category today.
Price: $19.99 Add To Cart
2021 Trullo Flaminio Negroamaro
Reviwer Picture By: Orazio Campoli | Review Date: 10/8/2026 | Send Email
Trullo Flaminio exists because four friends from the wine trade could not let two hectares of fifty-year-old alberello Negroamaro disappear when the grower who had tended them for decades sold up in 2016; the vines stand on red clay over the Salento limestone a few kilometres from the Adriatic, on the line of the ancient Via Appia outside Brindisi. The wine is made without tricks: picked at the end of September with two extra weeks on the vine, fermented in concrete with native yeasts and raised eight months in used tonneaux, so what you taste is old vines and a hot peninsula rather than a cellar. 2021 was Puglia's drought year, a small, healthy crop picked from mid-September that gave dark, concentrated wines, and five years in bottle have softened its edges. In the glass, it pours a deep, dark ruby with a garnet rim. The nose is black plum, dried cherry, rosemary and tobacco leaf, with a smoky, sun-warmed note of crushed terracotta. On the palate it is full-bodied but not heavy, with round, grainy tannins and enough acidity to keep the fruit lifted; the finish is savory and long, closing on the bitter-almond note that is the variety's fingerprint. This is honest, old-school Negroamaro, fiercely unmanipulated and at its peak. Drink now and through 2028, with orecchiette and ragù di braciole, grilled lamb, or aged caciocavallo.
Price: $14.99 Add To Cart
2020 Trullo Flaminio Susumaniello
Reviwer Picture By: Orazio Campoli | Review Date: 10/8/2026 | Send Email
Susumaniello takes its name from somarello, the little donkey of Puglian dialect, because a young vine carries enormous loads of fruit before its yields collapse with age, and that temperament is precisely why the variety was abandoned for Negroamaro and Primitivo and had almost vanished from the Brindisi countryside before a handful of estates replanted it. Trullo Flaminio put in two hectares in 2016 on the same clay-and-limestone ground as its old-vine Negroamaro, near the sea along the Via Appia, so this 2020 comes from vines in their fourth leaf, the donkey at its most generous. The winemaking is simple and transparent: native-yeast fermentation in concrete, with 80% of the wine raised in concrete and 20% in used tonneaux, no new wood anywhere. 2020 was a balanced season in Salento, without 2021's drought or 2022's extreme heat, and six years in bottle have turned the grape's famous blue fruit toward something darker and more savory. In the glass, it pours an inky, nearly opaque purple with a narrow garnet rim. The nose is blueberry, black mulberry and violet, with black pepper, dried fig and a cool note of eucalyptus. On the palate it is round and juicy, with soft, velvety tannins, fresh acidity and a long, dark-fruited finish that stays clean. This is Susumaniello as a drinking wine rather than a curiosity, pure and unforced. Drink now and through 2027, with bombette from the Valle d'Itria, braciole al sugo, or burrata and a wood-fired pizza.
Price: $14.99 Add To Cart
2024 Sotto Nebbia Langhe Nebbiolo (K&L Exclusive)
Reviwer Picture By: Orazio Campoli | Review Date: 10/8/2026 | Send Email
Sotto Nebbia, "under the fog," takes its name from the nebbia that settles over the Langhe in late October, when Nebbiolo is finally picked, and the label exists to do one thing: bottle a Langhe Nebbiolo that tastes of its hills rather than of a cellar. The fruit comes from Monforte d'Alba, inside the Barolo appellation, on the compact, sandstone-laced marls of the Lequio formation that give the commune its grip, and the wine is raised like a Barolo in miniature: twelve months in wood, then three months in bottle before release, a longer élevage than most Langhe Nebbiolo ever sees.
Price: $19.99 Add To Cart
Damien Hugot Rosé Extra Brut Champagne
Reviwer Picture By: Philip Roufail | Review Date: 10/7/2026 | Send Email
We just tasted the latest release of this delectable rose from Champagne Damien Hugot. Damien and wife Miwa have crafted a delicate, light bodied rose that is popping with red fruit character. Damien likes to barrel ferment almost everything he makes, which makes his house style big, bold, and rich! The 95% Grand Cru Chardonnay from Chouilly & Cramant is barrel fermented in a foudre (very large oak barrel) and the 5% Pinot Noir is from a perpetual reserve that is also in a foudre. Yet, remarkably, this rose has a soft juicy touch. Dosage is a low 2g/L, so firmly in the Extra Brut category. Floral, racy, with notes of wild strawberry, raspberry, tangerine, saline, and brioche. Definitely one of my favorite rose champagnes we carry right now!
Price: $44.99 Add To Cart
Damien Hugot "Hommage 1921" Extra Brut Champagne
Reviwer Picture By: Philip Roufail | Review Date: 10/7/2026 | Send Email
The Hugot family planted vines in Champagne as early as 1660, but their first bottling wasn't until 1921. Damien Hugot's grandfather made the leap from grower to grower-producer and Damien honors this milestone with his "Hommage" 1921 Extra Brut Champagne. The first part of the blend is 75% Chardonnay from the harvest year sourced from Monthelon, a cold micro-climate in the sud d'Epernay, and barrel fermented in a foudre. The remaining 25% is a combination of Pinot Noir and Meunier, sourced from Chavot (also in sud d'Epernay) from a perpetual blend aged in barriques (small oak barrels). The slow oxygenation from the foudre and barriques gives the champagne more depth and complexity than you get from stainless steel tanks. Creamy, full bodied, with 3-4 years of aging on the lees, and a dosage of 3g/l (very dry on the finish), with notes of fresh sourdough, lemon-lime, peach, ginger, and the signature chalky minerality for which the Cote de Blancs is famous. If you like big, bold, barrel fermented champagne made with the care and tradition that can only come with over four hundred years of experience, Champagne Damien Hugot is the house you've been looking for.
Price: $49.99 Add To Cart
2019 Gloria, St-Julien
Reviwer Picture By: Ryan Moses | Review Date: 10/7/2026 | Send Email
We knew Gloria was great in 2019, but it doesn't hurt that Neal Martin more-than confirmed it with his 96-point mark in a blind Southwold tasting, just a point shy of Léoville Barton and Léoville Las Cases. That’s pretty serious company for a wine that has long been one of Saint-Julien’s great overachievers. It also comes from one of the Left Bank’s great modern vintages, and the quality is obvious from the start. Graphite, blackberry, cedar, and dark currant lead into a palate with real depth and purity, but what stands out most is the structure. The tannins are fine, polished, and beautifully integrated, with enough grip to give the wine shape without ever making it feel hard. There’s terrific freshness through the middle, a sense of lift that keeps the black fruit moving, and a long, composed finish with a subtle saline edge. This has plenty to offer now with a long decant, but it still feels like a wine built for the cellar. The balance of fruit, acidity, tannin, and length is what gives it that more serious feel, and why I think it will develop so well over the years to come. For the quality, vintage, and pedigree, Gloria remains one of the more compelling Left Bank wines you can buy at this level.
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VN: 96
JA: 95
JD: 95
DC: 94
JS: 94
WS: 94
CK: 93
RP: 93
TWI: 93
2024 Domaine Samuel Billaud Chablis 1er Cru "Mont de Milieu"
Reviwer Picture By: Thomas Zacharia | Review Date: 10/7/2026 | Send Email
I tasted Samuel Billaud's 2024 Mont de Milieu first thing in the morning, basically straight after housing a chorizo breakfast burrito from Los Tacos #1, so you could say my palate was primed for success. So it says something that I continued to make the entire store staff taste it again and again throughout the day, repeatedly commenting on the ever-expanding aromatics and fruit profile which only became more entrancing as the wine opened, all underlined with a broad-tipped marker by Samuel Billaud's signature precision-driven style. Samuel Billaud made the wines at his family's Billaud-Simon until a falling-out pushed him out in 2009, and for his first vintages he worked from a rented cellar in the next village over with bought grapes. He's since moved into a gravity-fed winery that backs onto his grandparents' old house in the center of Chablis and bought back a slice of the family vines, including fractions of Les Clos and Vaudésir. Jasper Morris puts it plainly: "Every time I taste with Samuel I am astonished by the beauty of his wines." Mont de Milieu sits on the same bank, the same Kimmeridgian slope and the same south-facing exposure as the grands crus, one hill along from Montée de Tonnerre with a small side valley in between. Basically, you get the ripeness and the weight of the big hill where the grand crus sit, without the same price tag, and this is a stellar example of the giving nature of the site. Mark my words, in 5 years time Samuel Billaud will be spoken about in the same circles as Raveneau and Dauvissat. Some might say he already is! I would never tell you that this wine is a steal, but for the price you pay, you are getting one hell of a bottle.
Price: $84.99 Add To Cart
JS: 95
DC: 94
TA: 94
VN: 94
BH: 91 - 94
JM: 91 - 93
RP: 89 - 91
2025 Anonymous Wine Collective Petaluma Gap Chardonnay
Reviwer Picture By: John Majeski | Review Date: 10/7/2026 | Send Email
In this unique confluence of scouring breezes, coastal mountain terrain and refreshing Pacific fog the vines produce ripe, fleshy fruit embellished with sublime acidity. An ideal terroir for Chardonnay, and the perfect culmination of aromas and flavors that make this Petaluma Gap wine shine— the vibrant palate reveals comice pear, yellow apple, tropical fruits and creme fraiche flavors that will beautifully complement a dish of seared scallops or pork tenderloin.
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2024 Prosper Maufoux Bourgogne Blanc
Reviwer Picture By: Thomas Zacharia | Review Date: 10/7/2026 | Send Email
I have been repeatedly be wowed by chardonnays across all price points from the beautiful but limited 2024 Burgundy vintage, and Prosper Maufoux's has helped restored my faith that prodigious value does still exist in Burgundy! Sipping this bottle makes me want to sit at my kitchen island, put on some John Coltrane, and slide into an endless evening of soft French cheeses and pate de Campagne. Or, you know, a bag of white cheddar pop corners. Take your pick. Sourced from choice plots in the Côte Chalonnaise and Mâconnais, the aromatics are fresh and lightly creamy, and the palate has touches of weight alongside lovely apple and pear fruits, and hints of citrus peel. Fruit, light spice, and everything nice. For $25, this wine is simply a delight!
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DC: 95
WE: 92
2023 Charles Baur "Eichberg" Riesling Alsace Grand Cru
Reviwer Picture By: Keith Mabry | Review Date: 10/7/2026 | Send Email
Riesling seldom gets the attention it deserves, let alone the Alsatian versions. Steely and mineral, they have a nerve and drive that accentuate the broader fruit flavors of the variety. Charles Baur has been one of our Direct Import producers from Alsace for years, and we have always enjoyed the wines. They offer some of the best value in the category, and in some cases, I think our own team may be among their biggest customers. With this new crop of arrivals—including a juicy Pinot Gris, an exceptional Sylvaner and a few sumptuous Gewürztraminers—it is the Eichberg Riesling that stands tallest among them. Back to Riesling: I love it dry, I love it off-dry and I love it sweet. The Eichberg is firmly in the dry camp, with beautiful pear fruit accented by that stony minerality I look for in great Alsatian Riesling. This comes entirely from the Grand Cru Eichberg, where clay-rich soils sit over limestone and sandstone. There is breadth here, but also plenty of energy, giving the wine a wonderful tension that makes it dance lithely across the palate. And what a perfect time to drink a wine like this. As we transition from summer into fall and eventually winter, Riesling becomes even more welcome at the table. It is truly a variety for all seasons and works with an enormous range of foods. This one would be terrific with the roasted birds we cherish in the cooler months, braised pork dishes where Riesling’s acidity cuts through the richness, or simply your favorite Asian takeout.
Price: $27.99 Add To Cart
VN: 95
JS: 93
2024 Samuel Billaud Bourgogne d'Or Chardonnay
Reviwer Picture By: Marc Etienne | Review Date: 10/7/2026 | Send Email
Bourgogne D'Or is the French would describe as a "Glou Glou" wine. The freshness of this wine invites one to drink up... with a Greek salad with big chunks of Feta Cheese. Cheers!
Price: $34.99 Add To Cart
2024 Domaine Samuel Billaud Chablis 1er Cru "Fourneaux"
Reviwer Picture By: Marc Etienne | Review Date: 10/7/2026 | Send Email
Vibrant expressions of green fruit, citrus. The level of acidity conjures up images of fields of sunflowers... Tis the season to enjoy a glass of Chablis. Cheers!
Price: $79.99 Add To Cart
JS: 94
BH: 91 - 94
DC: 93
TA: 93
VN: 90 - 92
JM: 89 - 92
RP: 89 - 91
Pursuit United (10 Year 4 Months) "Nec Evitare" K&L Exclusive Toasted American Oak Finished Single Barrel Cask Strength Rye Whiskey (700ml)
Reviwer Picture By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 10/6/2026 | Send Email
The groovy guys at Pursuit United are just as fun and cool to hang with as they sound on their show. They've successfully converted a love of whiskey into a proper professional life on so many levels, but what's most impressive is that they seem to have retained their passion for the whole thing. I meet distillers and producers from all over the country and world, and while it's not unusual for them to be interested in their competitors' products, it's extremely rare for them to exhibit high-level expertise about not only their competitors' products, but also antique versions of those products and pretty much every other category of spirits. So it's not a surprise that we got along well, geeking out about crazy Armagnac releases and gossiping about legendary bottlings. We've had a great affection for the wonderful whiskies that PS has been bottling, but I was just blown away by the QPR on their single barrels. This lovely rye is the perfect example. Named, Nec Evitare, a meaningless phrase in bad latin that signifies nothing. The point being this just doesn't make sense. I can't really find another rye single barrel over 10 years old anywhere close to this price point, and even fewer as good. Six months in toasted oak, taking the total time in barrel for the blend to a minimum of 10 years, is simply the icing on top. Let's get it. The color is a not totally restrained tawny (1.4); three different barrels will do that. The nose is dark and brooding, with big peppery rye notes softened perfectly by sweet American oak. Big blue fruit, fresh ginger, roasted oak, sarsaparilla, birch and fennel. The palate is chewy, dense and full of powerful dark spices. It's balanced by rich molasses, but the root beer character doesn't overwhelm the overarching intensity. It's simply out of the realm of most modern ryes and doesn't have a great analogue to compare it to, but it's heartwarming, vibrant and full-throttle in the best way.
Price: $69.99 Add To Cart
2024 Poderi Luigi Einaudi Langhe Nebbiolo
Reviwer Picture By: Michael Benoit | Review Date: 10/6/2026 | Send Email
This youthful Nebbiolo from Poderi Luigi Einaudi has a very pretty nose full of rose petal, pomegranate, and warm earth notes. On the palate, this wine is bright and high acid, and has flavors of blackberry, cranberry, and pomegranate, framed by a chalky, medium tannin structure. This bottle would make a great partner to anything rich and fatty as it has the acidity to cut through anything you pair with it!
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Pursuit United (9 Year 2 Months) "Time Under Tension" K&L Single Barrel Double Oaked Cask Strength Blend of Straight Bourbon Whiskey (700ml)
Reviwer Picture By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 10/6/2026 | Send Email
When I heard that the fellas at Pursuit United were doing single barrels, I knew we had to get on board. These guys have got a lot of knowledge and chutzpah, and they're committed not only to doing things differently, but to creating a better expression of the great American spirit using new methods. It was a pleasure to visit them at their fabulous tasting room and bar in downtown Louisville, and I can't recommend the stop more highly to anyone who's in the region. But what we came for was the fabulous whiskies they're producing. The idea to source and blend this way is so out there and unique, it must have felt like an incredible risk when they first started out. But now, many years down the line, they control their products inside and out and have incredible flexibility to produce interesting spirits at very reasonable prices. Here we have an incredible mixture of multiple mashbills and barrel types with a total time in barrel, including component aging and blended aging, of just over 9 years. It can't legally be labeled that way, but it certainly shouldn't be thought of as a 4-year-old whisky, the legally claimable age. There were almost 5 additional years in new wood after blending before a perfect kiss of a finish: 3 months in the highest-quality hybrid French and American oak barrels. That's smart because French oak can sometimes add austerity rather than depth, even in short finishes. The resulting spirit drinks light-years beyond its price point and offers familiarity alongside unique character. Here it goes! The color is an intense mahogany (1.6). A huge nose of rich spices, wildflower honey and maple syrup. Behind that, we've got hints of Coppertone, espresso beans, dried herbs, old leather, brambly fruit and kola nut. The palate is dense and dark, drinking almost like an antique whiskey, with huge spice and oak notes balanced by dense red and baked pome fruit. A gloriously rich and woody character that far outpaces its price point and even feels older than the implied age statement suggests.
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Augusta Distillery "Sowing Seed & Chaffing Wheat" K&L Exclusive Cask Strength Single Barrel #26-64 Kentucky Straight Wheated Bourbon Whiskey (750ml)
Reviwer Picture By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 10/6/2026 | Send Email
This awesome little barrel of wheated bourbon was hand-selected by the K&L Spirits buying team with the team from the Augusta Distillery in spring of 2026, and it is, in fact, the first time I'm tasting this! Augusta has made waves sourcing exceptional casks from across Kentucky as their spirit matures. They seem to have done everything right and have managed to continue to garner interest from aficionados and the general public in spite of the challenges the industry has faced. We're happy to support this wonderful operation and all the excellent people involved, and while this whisky won't win any "affordability" awards, it's damn good juice and only yielded 90 bottles, so it's really very limited. Shall we? The color is a typical chestnut hue (1.2). The nose is pure sweetness with brown sugar, candied pecans and caramel sauce, punctuated only by hints of Tahitian vanilla bean and dark wood spice. With a bit of air, the unrelenting sweetness tames somewhat, releasing citrus oil, sweet, fresh chocolate mint leaf, new leather and golden maple syrup. On the palate, we get a huge vanilla character followed by waves of brown sugar, dense cherry compote, dense dark chocolate and a surprisingly long, dense finish that's full of that red fruit and big baking spice. If you sat me down and said this was a Weller 107 pick, I probably wouldn't have batted an eye. It's a fabulous pick from my wonderful team and will make the very, very few who get to taste it extremely happy.
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Westward 10 Year Old "Single Barrel #B-368-16" K&L Exclusive Cask Strength Single Barrel American Single Malt Whiskey
Reviwer Picture By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 10/6/2026 | Send Email
This ridiculous barrel represents what I would consider the pinnacle of craft whiskey in the US today. Westward have been at this for a long time, and they've ridden out an incredible roller coaster as the industry has ebbed and flowed over the last 20 years. Part of what makes Westward so unique is the way they treat their wort, and the resulting spirit is unlike any in the US, Scotland or beyond. Anyone who knows me knows I'm all for experimentation, but the resulting product must be at least as good as or better than products made using tried-and-true methods, or it's simply a waste of time. And we've established that Westward is capable of making incredibly special whiskies on par with the greatest spirits in any category: see the Milestone Solera whiskey. But we've yet to find a single cask that was able to capture that same complexity, unique character and overt opulence...until now. This ridiculous little barrel offers a completely unique experience, producing a similar profile to the absurdly fruity Milestone with the added tension, powerful character and deep woodsy goodness of a cask-strength new oak malt. It may be my favorite malt whisky aged exclusively in new charred American oak that I've tasted in many, many years, maybe ever. Here it comes! The color is a truly dense shade of auburn (1.5). The nose immediately transports me to a forest in the fall: underbrush, dense oak, earthy spice. But with aeration, an incredible transformation occurs, offering tropical mango, coconut oil, cacao nibs, quince jam, persimmon and candied orange peel. On the palate at full proof, the oily texture is the first striking note, and the second is the ridiculous tropicality. While the oak is obviously powerful and intense, it doesn't feel hard or bitter at all. With water, the nose moves more toward red fruit, and the palate totally relents, softening and opening to a huge, fruity chocolate compote, like a chocolate-covered cherry filled with kirsch. This is simply one of the most impressive craft whiskies on the market today and provides a completely distinct experience while matching or besting the experience traditional distillers from either KY or Scotland offer at nearly any price point. BRAVO!!!
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2006 Craigellachie 17 Year Old "Vintage Bottlers Ltd" Rare Cask Series Barrel #101229 Non Chillfiltered Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (700ml)
Reviwer Picture By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 10/6/2026 | Send Email
Craigellachie remains one of the most interesting and complex distillers in the Highlands. One of just 20 or so distillers still using worm tubs, its characterful spirit has many sides to it. This is the home of the heart of the John Dewar’s brand and one of the most interesting plants in all of Speyside. What makes it unique are the fat, onion-shaped stills, the surprisingly steep lyne arm and the steel worm tubs. The resulting spirit tends to be oily and rich and can offer character ranging from industrial engine oil to the ultra-fruity. With that, we often see heavier wood or oak treatments, but it’s refreshing to see the spirit on full display here, with a feeling of great maturity alongside that freshness. Let’s try it! The color is pale gold (0.3). The nose is full of stone fruit and crushed rocks, white cherries, manzano bananas, crisp, fresh malt and baking spice. The beautiful fullness of flavor continues on the palate, but doesn’t wade into the aggressively greasy or weird, with a fruity front palate retaining the nearly tropical fruit and the big, juicy core building through the center. Adding water here is really interesting and adds weight and complexity, but only a couple of drops are needed. Now some of the oilier notes come forward, but the apricot-y tone takes over from the tropical banana stuff. It’s simply a lovely, spirit-driven whisky without obstruction. Considering where many other bottlers put their older Craigellachie, it’s quite a good value as well. A perfect one for someone really into exploring this special spirit, but pretty enough to attract any malt lover’s attention.
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2022 K&L Discovery Series Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Reviwer Picture By: Marc Etienne | Review Date: 10/6/2026 | Send Email
Soft and elegant tannin from this aromatically earthy Chateauneuf-du-Pape. This unpretentious vin d' assemblage of 80% Mouvedre and 20% Grenache is ideal for the Fall. It is an excellent medium to full-body red ready to be drunk now. Cheers!
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Maison 76 Côte des Blancs Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Champagne
Reviwer Picture By: Marc Etienne | Review Date: 10/6/2026 | Send Email
Pleasantly fresh and delightfully creamy mousse, Maison 76 Grand Cru Blanc de Blanc is excellently price. This medium acidity champagne is a prelude to Thanksgiving. The finish is persistently long lasting. Cheers!
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Alexandre Le Brun "Passion" Brut Champagne
Reviwer Picture By: Marc Etienne | Review Date: 10/6/2026 | Send Email
This 50% Chardonnay and Pinot Noir is an Autumnal delight. Generous aromas and flavors of green fruit, delicate mousse, bright acidity and long finish. Cheers!
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2023 Anonymous Wine Collective Anderson Valley Pinot Noir
Reviwer Picture By: Lacie Schwarz | Review Date: 10/6/2026 | Send Email
Anderson Valley, to me, is a region finding the mid-point between the earthy, light, more serious side of Pinot Noir and its supple, rich, velvety counter-part. Cranberry, pomegranate and sour cherry jump from the glass in the Anderson Valley Anonymous Pinot Noir. Licorice, truffle and a hint of white pepper and cedar meld into the background. The slight tannin and lively acidity help to form a complex wine with a lingering finish.
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2025 Anonymous Wine Collective Petaluma Gap Chardonnay
Reviwer Picture By: Lacie Schwarz | Review Date: 10/6/2026 | Send Email
Do you like your Chardonnay crisp, clean and minerally? Or do you prefer it with some oak influence? A touch of brioche or fresh lemon curd? With the new Anonymous Petaluma Gap Chardonnay, you don't need to choose. This wine is fresh, with crystalline purity. But has hints of toasty barrel fermentation, ripe tropical fruits and burnt sugar. The key word here is balance.
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2025 Anonymous Wine Collective Petaluma Gap Chardonnay
Reviwer Picture By: Ryan Woodhouse | Review Date: 10/5/2026 | Send Email
This brand-new bottling under The Anonymous Wine Collective is just beginning to come into its own. Bottled only a few months ago, it’s really starting to shine! The wine comes from two famous, highly regarded vineyard sites in the Petaluma Gap AVA, part of the broader Sonoma Coast. This is a truly special growing region thanks to the constant cooling breezes that funnel in from the Pacific through a gap in the coastal ranges. That relentless wind plays a fundamental role in producing world-class grapes: it naturally reduces yields and concentrates flavor, slows ripening to build greater complexity while preserving natural acidity, and encourages thicker grape skins that contribute texture and structure to the finished wine. Combine all of that with the region’s rocky volcanic soils, which lend a lively mineral character, and you have the magic of Petaluma Gap. This wine had so much natural flavor and concentration that we decided nine months in mostly neutral French oak was more than enough to frame the fruit. It simply didn’t need any additional “makeup.” The quality of the vineyards and the fruit speak for themselves. The result is a classic coastal California Chardonnay, with beautifully crystalline golden orchard fruit, fresh, stony minerality, vibrant acidity, and subtle, seamlessly integrated oak nuances. Fruit from these vineyards typically goes into single-vineyard-designate wines selling for $60-$80 a bottle. By keeping the source Anonymous, we can bring it to you for just $20. Cheers!
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2023 Anonymous Wine Collective Anderson Valley Pinot Noir
Reviwer Picture By: Ryan Woodhouse | Review Date: 10/5/2026 | Send Email
This wine delivers a benchmark Anderson Valley flavor profile at a price point that is simply unbeatable. Over-delivering on value has always been at the core of the Anonymous Wine Collective, and I'm certain this wine does that and then some. I'm thrilled with the end result of this bottling that I was able to compose from barrel samples dialing in the exact character I wanted to capture from this top quality vintage and great but (top secret) vineyard source. The wine is loaded is pure forest berry fruit, dusty, earthy spices, brambles, Redwood grove, and alpine herbs. Elegant and silky, but full of flavor and layered nuance. For $20 I challenge you to find a more complete bottle of Pinot Noir that delivers the goods so emphatically! Enjoy!
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2023 Anonymous Wine Collective Anderson Valley Pinot Noir
Reviwer Picture By: John Downing | Review Date: 10/5/2026 | Send Email
We tasted this along side of the latest release of our Anonymous Chardonnay from Petaluma Gap and found it just as exciting. it's an elegant and seamless style Pinot with delicious red fruits and spice throughout. Although perfect on it's own, it's a wonderful mid-week dinner wine as well. Try with pork, Asian style dishes and mild cheeses.
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2025 Anonymous Wine Collective Petaluma Gap Chardonnay
Reviwer Picture By: John Downing | Review Date: 10/5/2026 | Send Email
This impressive new release from our Anonymous Collective series continues the streak of excellence we've become accustomed to. When I read of it being aged in 30 percent new barrels, I expected prominent oak flavors. To my surprise, this outstanding Chardonnay is quite the opposite. It combines fresh acidity and minerality with a wonderful texture and delicious honied orchard fruit. And, it's only 19.99.
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2025 Domaine Francine & Olivier Savary Chablis Vieilles Vignes
Reviwer Picture By: Thomas Zacharia | Review Date: 10/5/2026 | Send Email
The 2025 Vieilles Vignes Chablis from Savary is sourced from vines 45+ years in age. It's superbly bright and fresh, all lemon zest, white flowers, and wet chalky tension, then it flashes a little weight through the middle, teasing creamy breadth, before immediately snapping back to pure Chablis, with a remarkably lithe, mineral, and linear finish. I'd be delighted to drink this any day of the week!
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2023 Domaine Benoît Cantin Irancy "La Grande Côte"
Reviwer Picture By: Thomas Zacharia | Review Date: 10/5/2026 | Send Email
This is a red wine that transports you to your favorite bistro in Dijon or Paris. One with paper on the tables, wooden chairs, and mirrors on the walls, sipping a glass while awaiting your steak au poivre and a tangle of frites. It's immediately charming and totally irresistible. If you've ever wondered where Burgundy keeps its secrets, drive fifteen minutes south of Chablis and you'll find Irancy, a south-facing amphitheater of Kimmeridgian limestone with fewer than 200 hectares of vines and fewer than fifty growers, every one of them making red wine on soils the rest of the world associates with oysters and Chablis. The climate has done Irancy a favor the Côte d'Or might envy: the amphitheater now ripens Pinot comfortably most years, slopes once written off as too cool are being planted, and the village sailed through the 2016 and 2021 frosts that gutted the rest of Burgundy, so the wines have gone from lean and angular to genuinely delicious without losing their chalky northern minerality. The Cantins have been farming here for generations, and Benoît, who bottled his first solo vintage in 1994 with his father Bernard still at his side, works 16 hectares spread across ten of the village's lieux-dits. "La Grande Côte" is sourced from a steep slope that tumbles toward the Yonne River and faces south-southwest so the Pinot soaks up every hour of northern sun, making this cuvée is the fullest and most structured Irancy in Benoit's range. In 2023, vibrant and pure-fruited aromatics leap out of the glass, immediately calling you for a second sniff. Wild fresh berries and fresh violets on the palate all coil around a chalky, beautifully fresh core. Who knew Red Burgundy under $30 could be this compelling?
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2023 Anonymous Wine Collective Anderson Valley Pinot Noir
Reviwer Picture By: John Majeski | Review Date: 10/4/2026 | Send Email
With the continuing success of the Anonymous Wine Collective, one would think that we would exhaust our potential for uncovering superb new finds, but under the inspired vision of Ryan Woodhouse and his talented team, the hits keep coming! Anderson Valley has long established itself as a prime region for cool-climate Pinot Noir, and this poised bottle demonstrates precisely why. In its selection of old vine, partial whole cluster fruit shimmering with black cherry, eucalyptus, violets and dark chocolate aromas mirrored in a mouthwatering palate imbued with bright acidity and velvety tannins, this wine delivers a crescendo of flavors at a remarkably attractive price. A fantastic gem!
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2023 Mayacamas Mount Veeder Chardonnay
Reviwer Picture By: Lauren Fisher | Review Date: 10/4/2026 | Send Email
If you see a deal on anything from Mayacamas, you have to take advantage. This Chardonnay has that cool-climate elegance I love, with citrus, green apple, a little almond, and a really nice mineral edge. It’s focused and refreshing but still has enough texture to make it feel substantial. A really special bottle for the price.
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2023 Anonymous Wine Collective Anderson Valley Pinot Noir
Reviwer Picture By: Lauren Fisher | Review Date: 10/4/2026 | Send Email
Really nice Pinot that punches way above where you’d expect it to. It’s got plenty of fruit, but there’s also a nice savory side that keeps it interesting. Easy to enjoy on its own, but definitely a bottle I’d be happy to bring to dinner.
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2025 Anonymous Wine Collective Petaluma Gap Chardonnay
Reviwer Picture By: Lauren Fisher | Review Date: 10/4/2026 | Send Email
Really fun bottle that hits a nice balance between being easy to drink and still having plenty going on. It’s got good texture, plenty of flavor, and enough freshness to keep it from feeling heavy. The kind of wine that’s hard to put down once you’ve started.
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2025 Anonymous Wine Collective Petaluma Gap Chardonnay
Reviwer Picture By: Kai Pedreno | Review Date: 10/3/2026 | Send Email
Another Great chard in the anonymous lineup this time from the Petaluma gap. Flinty nose with Bright lemon coming through. On the palate Its rich but with Great acidity that leaves your mouth watering and refreshed. For $20 this is a steal!
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2023 Anonymous Wine Collective Anderson Valley Pinot Noir
Reviwer Picture By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 10/3/2026 | Send Email
Gee gosh golly do I love our Anonymous wines! They're all fantastic examples of what they are at a price that can't be beat except by wineries in foreclosure. One time I asked Woodhouse who made this particular wine and he just looked at me and said "Aaron, I would never lie to you" and then just refused to say anything else. Pretty honest if you ask me. At this price, you'd be crazy not to purchase one for your own consumption and perhaps for a gift to be consumed by an acquaintance!
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