Three bottles we recommend
A white, a red, and a Champagne.
Du Grappin 2024 Bourgogne Aligoté — $49
The white we open most often. Old-vine Aligoté from the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune: foot-crushed, basket-pressed, twelve months in barrel. Featured by Eric Asimov in The New York Times. The natural starting point.
Domaine Charlopin-Tissier 2022 Bourgogne Rouge ‘Montre Cul’ — $60
A Marsannay lieu-dit labeled Bourgogne Rouge for administrative reasons, named for its steep slope. Organically farmed Pinot Noir. Wax capsule applied by hand.
Champagne Pierre Deville ‘Primitif’ Extra Brut — $85
Fourth-generation grower in Grand Cru Verzy. Every wine fermented in old oak. The Champagne that changes how people think about Champagne.
Shop by budget
$45–$65
Under $65 doesn’t mean ordinary. These come from small family domaines, in places most people haven’t tried: Vézelay, Côte de Brouilly, the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune. Each has a story, and each is a low-risk way to meet a winemaker’s work.
$65–$100
Wines named for a single village or plot, like Saint-Romain, Pommard, and a Marsannay lieu-dit. This is where you start to see how neighboring villages differ. Plus Champagne from Adrien Renoir and Antoine Bouvet.
$100–$200
Premier Cru and the best-known villages: Gevrey-Chambertin, Chambolle-Musigny, Meursault. They suit a dinner or a gift, and they show what a single named vineyard can do.
Grand Cru
The top of Burgundy’s classification, in very small quantities. Domaine Amiot et Fils is the Guide Hachette des Vins’ 2026 Vigneron de l’Année for Burgundy, and its 2022 Clos de la Roche earned a coup de cœur.
Shop by occasion
Before dinner
Champagne from families who farm their own vines. Open one before the meal, or bring one to someone else’s table. Antoine Bouvet wines: order now. Available to ship the first week of December.
The dinner party bottle
Wines your guests will ask about. A Marsannay lieu-dit, a rosé Champagne from vines planted in 1964, and two Premier Cru whites from Beaune and Pernand-Vergelesses. Each has a story to tell at the table.
A gift
For someone who knows wine and will notice the choice: Premier Cru red from Beaune and Morey-Saint-Denis, Meursault, Grand Cru Champagne, and a magnum for the holiday table. Antoine Bouvet magnum: order now. Available to ship the first week of December.
Shop by what you already know
If you drink Burgundy already
You already know Gevrey-Chambertin and Meursault. These are the wines we’d look at next: lesser-known villages, a Premier Cru in two vintages, and a Marsannay in magnum.
If you drink Champagne but mostly know the big houses
Start with the Pierre Deville Primitif at the top of this page. Then try more from growers: families who farm their own vines and make their own wine. These are the wines we’d look at next. Read Beyond the Big Houses — A Guide to Grower Champagne.
From the Cellar to Your Door
Temperature control matters at every step, so we manage the whole route.
Shipped cold from France
The wine travels from the domaine cellars to our temperature-controlled warehouse in refrigerated containers and trucks, start to finish.
Stored in temperature controlled warehouses
Our main temperature-controlled bonded warehouse is in the Bay Area. A smaller temperature-controlled warehouse is in North County San Diego.
We ship when the weather is right
We wait for good shipping weather. After you order, we email you to arrange a shipping date that works for you.
Wine delivered to most states
We ship to most US states that allow wine shipping. Free shipping on 12 or more bottles.
Le Grappin
Andrew and Emma Nielsen. Wines from specific, organically farmed parcels across Burgundy and Beaujolais, made and bottled by hand.
Domaine Amiot et Fils
Ten generations in Morey-Saint-Denis since 1702. Named Vigneron de l’Année 2026 — Bourgogne by the Guide Hachette des Vins.
Domaine Charlopin-Tissier
Yann Charlopin and Justine Tissier brought two family vineyard holdings together in 2013. Gevrey-Chambertin winery with vineyards across the Côte de Nuits and the Côte de Beaune.
Domaine Buisson-Battault
Fifth-generation family domaine in Meursault. Farming the same plots since the 1920s, across fourteen appellations from Bourgogne to Premier Cru.
Mark Haisma
Australian-born, trained at Yarra Yering in Victoria. Based in Gevrey-Chambertin since 2007. Named one of Tim Atkin’s Top 25 Producers to Watch.
Champagne Pierre Deville
Fourth-generation grower in Verzy Grand Cru, working five hectares of chalk soils on the Montagne de Reims. Biodynamic farming, hand harvesting, indigenous yeasts, old oak.
Champagne Antoine Bouvet
Fifth-generation grower farming 5.5 hectares across Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Bisseuil, and Avenay Val d’Or. Biodynamic, old oak only, with some wines resting four or more years before release.
Champagne Hélène Charbaut
Fourth-generation grower in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ and Bisseuil, working a family cave that dates to 1937. All five cuvées are Premier Cru: four single-variety wines and a Pinot Noir-led blend.
Champagne Pascal Lejeune
Family domaine on the south-facing slopes of the Coteaux Sud d’Épernay. One of the first in Champagne to plant cover crops between vine rows.