Every year around this time we go back through what we have in stock and think about what we’d actually open — or give — if the occasion called for something more considered than what we drink on a Tuesday. This is that list. It’s the bottles I keep coming back to when someone asks me what to bring.
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Open it tonight
For the host, the dinner table, the bottle you open without occasion. These are the wines I reach for when I want something genuinely good without having to think too hard about it.
Du Grappin 2024 Bourgogne Aligoté — $49
Eric Asimov wrote about this wine in The New York Times — “demonstrates how pleasing and refreshing the grape can be.” That assessment is right. Old-vine Aligoté from the lieu-dit of Mainbey, high in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune. Foot-crushed, basket-pressed, twelve months in barrel. The kind of white that disappears before dinner is finished and has everyone asking what it was.
Du Grappin 2022 Vézelay Blanc — $56
This is the wine I recommend more than any other when someone asks for a good by-the-glass white. Chardonnay on Kimmeridgian limestone — the same ancient seabed formation that defines Chablis. One-third old oak foudre, two-thirds concrete egg, twelve months on full lees. Crisp, saline, consistently satisfying. Works with nearly everything on a holiday table.
Domaine Charlopin-Tissier 2022 Bourgogne Rouge ‘Montre-Cul’ — $60
The name requires a brief explanation. Montre-Cul is a lieu-dit in Gevrey-Chambertin — the steep slope required workers to bend forward so dramatically to tend the vines that passing observers got an eyeful. Or so the official story goes. Ask a Gevrey vigneron about the Dijonnais and you may get a different explanation.
Whatever the origin of the name, the wine is straightforward: Gevrey-Chambertin fruit at a Bourgogne price, made by Yann Charlopin with the same organic farming and no-filtration approach he applies to the Clos Vougeot Grand Cru. Bright red cherry, fine tannins, a clean mineral finish. The red to have open on the table when the white runs out.
Aperitif
These are the bottles I’d open while the table is being set — small-production grower Champagnes from two family domaines in Verzy Grand Cru and Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, made by people who farm their own vines and barrel-ferment everything. Nothing like what most people have had before, and exactly the right way to start a holiday meal.
Champagne Pierre Deville ‘Primitif’ Extra Brut — $85
For someone who thinks they know Champagne. Alban Corbeaux is the fourth generation of a family farming in Verzy Grand Cru since 1963 — biodynamic farming, indigenous yeasts, every wine fermented and aged in old oak barrels. The Primitif is the multi-vintage blend that anchors the range. 80% Pinot Noir, 20% Chardonnay, 2022 base vintage, zero dosage. Nothing like what most people have had before. The grower Champagne for the table rather than the aperitif glass.
Champagne Pierre Deville Cuvée Rosé de Macération — $126
Most Champagne rosé is made by adding a small amount of still red wine to the blend. Alban Corbeaux does something different. The Rosé de Macération comes from a single parcel — La Blanche Voie in Verzy Grand Cru, vines planted in 1968 — and gets its colour from twelve hours of skin contact rather than blending. The juice then goes entirely into old oak barrels. No stainless steel at any stage. The result is a Champagne rosé with real texture and structure — more food-friendly than most rosés, more interesting than almost all of them. This is one of the most compelling Champagne rosés I’ve tasted and the bottle I’d open first if I wanted to say something about what grower Champagne can do.
Antoine Bouvet — Les Monts de la Vallée Blanc de Noirs Magnum — arriving December 2026
Antoine Bouvet’s wines sell out with every release — and the December allocation includes a magnum of Les Monts de la Vallée Blanc de Noirs that has never been offered in the US before. 100% Pinot Noir from three villages — Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Bisseuil, and Avenay Val d’Or. 2022 vintage. Zero dosage. Extra Brut. 1500ml.
A Champagne magnum at a holiday table is the right format for the occasion — it ages more slowly and more gracefully than a 750ml and there’s enough for the whole table without opening a second bottle. If you want one of these in time for the holidays, email Jason now. Quantities are very small and pre-arrival list members get first access before we open to restaurant and retail accounts.
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The dinner wine
For the meal that deserves something specific. These are the bottles I’d open at a table where people are paying attention.
Domaine Buisson-Battault 2022 Meursault ‘Vieilles Vignes’ — $115
Vines planted in 1930 and 1932 — over 90 years old at the time of the 2022 harvest. Les Malpoiriers and Les Pellans, two specific Meursault lieu-dits farmed by the fifth generation of the same family. Twelve months in barrel, six months on fine lees, no stirring. The most compelling white on the list for a serious holiday dinner. Ripe stone fruit, hazelnut, a long mineral finish. Accessible enough to open now, serious enough to remember.
Mark Haisma 2022 Gevrey-Chambertin — $110
Mark came to Gevrey-Chambertin from Australia — a decade at Yarra Yering in Victoria before he landed in Burgundy in 2007 and started making some of the most sought-after small-production red wine in the Côte de Nuits. This village wine blends three parcels. 50 to 60% whole cluster, slow fermentation in concrete, twelve months in old oak. Jancis Robinson said he has struck gold. She’s right. Precise, fresh, the kind of wine that makes people ask what they’re drinking.
Domaine Charlopin-Tissier 2022 Marsannay ‘Le Chapitre’ — $67
Le Chapitre is one of Marsannay’s most celebrated lieux-dits — named for the chapter house of the Cistercian monks who farmed this land before the Revolution, and currently being evaluated for Premier Cru classification. Yann Charlopin farms it organically, fully destemmed, cold maceration, no filtration. The distinctive wax capsule on every bottle is applied by hand. At $67 this is the most interesting red at its price point on the list — and the natural starting point into the Charlopin-Tissier range.
The gift
For someone who knows wine and will remember where it came from. These are the bottles that come with a story worth telling.
Domaine Buisson-Battault 2022 Meursault 1er Cru ‘Poruzots’ — $157
Of the three Premier Crus we import from Buisson-Battault, Poruzots is the one I find most surprising on first taste — more acid and mineral tension than you expect, then it broadens as it opens up. The parcel is Porusot le Dessus, the upper portion of the climat, where the stony limestone soils give the wine a precision and focus that the richer, more generous Charmes doesn’t have. 36-year-old vines. Twelve months in barrel, twenty percent new oak, six months on fine lees — no stirring. The white Burgundy for someone who wants to understand what Meursault actually is rather than what most people think it is.
Domaine Amiot et Fils 2022 Morey-Saint-Denis — $99
The entry point into one of the most exciting domaines on the Amitié list right now. In 2026 the Guide Hachette des Vins named Domaine Amiot et Fils Vigneron de l’Année in Burgundy — winemaker of the year. The family has been farming in Morey-Saint-Denis for ten generations, since 1702. This village wine is the natural starting point — the same hands, the same philosophy, the same organically farmed vines as the Grand Cru above it. A gift that comes with a story worth telling at the table.
Domaine Amiot et Fils 2022 Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru ‘Les Millandes’ — $142
Les Millandes sits directly adjacent to the Grand Crus of Clos de la Roche and Clos Saint-Denis — Premier Cru in classification and Grand Cru in character. The Guide Hachette awarded a coup de cœur to this wine from the 2023 vintage as part of the same recognition that named the domaine Vigneron de l’Année. The 2022 is what’s available now — 45 ares of Pinot Noir harvested at full maturity, vinified with whole clusters, 16 to 18 months in oak. Bright raspberry and cassis, silky tannins, real depth. The wine that makes the recipient feel genuinely found.
The cellar gift
For the serious collector, the milestone occasion, or the wine that will outlast the holiday. These are the bottles I’d open in five or ten years and still be thinking about.
Domaine Amiot et Fils 2022 Grand Cru Clos de la Roche — $487
Three stars and a coup de cœur from the Guide Hachette des Vins — their highest recognition. 56 ares across three parcels spanning the full slope of the Grand Cru: Monts Luisants at the top, Fremières mid-slope, Les Chabiots at the bottom. Vines planted between 1947 and 1962. 2,000 bottles made. The Guide described it as “a complete, capital wine, and definitively one for long ageing.” Drink from 2030 through 2040. The gift for someone whose cellar deserves it.
Domaine Amiot et Fils 2021 Grand Cru Clos de la Roche — $449
The same three parcels, a cooler and more precise year. Jean-Louis Amiot described 2021 as showing the best terroir transparency they’d had in several years — classic red Burgundy with exceptional freshness and focus. Where the 2022 is generous and immediately compelling, the 2021 is leaner and more tightly wound. For someone who prefers the architecture of a wine over its immediate generosity. Both are worth having. Drink from 2027 through 2038.
Domaine Charlopin-Tissier 2019 Marsannay ‘Clos du Roy’ — Magnum — $165
Clos du Roy is the most prestigious lieu-dit in Marsannay — a royal enclosure with records dating to the medieval period, currently being evaluated for Premier Cru classification. This is the 2019 vintage in a 1500ml format — seven years of development in the format that ages most gracefully. Approaching its peak now and built to develop through 2035. Yann Charlopin, organic farming, no filtration, wax capsule applied by hand. The format for the table that deserves something memorable.
Coming in December — Antoine Bouvet
The next Antoine Bouvet allocation is arriving in December and will include three cuvées never before offered in the US — including Les Fleurs du Silence, a solera-style blend drawing from harvests spanning 2015 through 2022, and the Saignée de Mareuil 2019, a vintage Champagne from two Pinot Noir plots planted in 1968.
If you’d like first access before we open to our restaurant and retail accounts, email Jason directly at jason.berry@amitiewines.com.
Questions about any of the wines above?
Or about what to open for a specific occasion — email Jason at jason.berry@amitiewines.com. Free shipping on 12 or more bottles to most US states.
