100% Romorantin. Cour Cheverny has only existed as an AOC since 1997; François Cazin was instrumental in the drive to establish it to save this ancient local variety. The Cazin vines are planted on clay-limestone soils; some go all the way back to 1928. The farming is sustainable and the harvest by...

Pinot/Gamay/Côt. From estate vines averaging thirty years old on clay-limestone soils, sustainably farmed and harvested by hand. The varieties are vinified separately, each being fermented spontaneously with native yeasts and without sulfur. The Pinot Noir and Côt are destemmed and fermented...

100% Pinot Noir, fermented and aged in stainless steel. This salmon-colored beauty has enticing aromas of wild strawberries and the classic mineral backbone that typifies the wines of Sancerre. Sustainable.

Located just across the Loire River from Sancerre, the soil here has river deposits and the Portlandian limestone joins the Kimmeridgian limestone. The flint is known to add smokey notes to the wine - fumé!

Menetou-Salon's stoney soil gives a lot of minerality to the wine. Vines average 26-30 years-old. Fermented and aged in stainless steel. 2015 was the first vintage produced. Average production is 5,000 bottles per year.       

From a thirty year-old parcel planted by Christian Lauverjat's father. The vineyard has a limestone and clay soil, with a lot of white stones throughout. It is just outside of the Sancerre appellation and is classifed as Vin de Pays. The wine is fermented and aged in stainless steel and spends...

Menetou-Salon's stoney soil gives a lot of minerality to the wine. Vines average 26-30 years-old. Fermented and aged in stainless steel. 2015 was the first vintage produced. Average production is 5,000 bottles per year.       

From 63-year-old Sauvignon Blanc vines planted on the famous flinted hills of Saint-Satur, on the eastern side of the Sancerre appellation. Vinified in temperature-regulated stainless steel tanks and aged for more than 6 months on the fine lees, with bâtonnage.

About 85-90% press-wine, blended with a little bit of saignée. Yves Martin’s “nothing added; nothing taken away” fermentation yields a bright and expressive rosé with salty, mineral drive, a true expression of Chavignol. Sustainable.

Pierre counts himself lucky as 70% of his vineyards for the Chavignol Blanc are south facing. The hillsides are not as steep as Beaujeu or Mont Damnes and so he is able to use a tractor. He works with natural fermentations with spontaneous yeasts in stainless steel tanks and the wines are aged on ...

100% Altesse. Montagnieu is southern Bugey's largest and most spectacular cru, named for the village and comprising 32 contiguous hectares on a steep, southeast-facing slope up to 400 meters in altitude; much of it is rocky clay-limestone scree, with parts of heavy clay as well as gravelly marl....

Crémant de Savoie is a new appellation; the first wines were released in December 2015. The blend must be at least 60% Jacquère or Altesse, with a minimum of 40% Jacquère. Chardonnay, Aligoté, and Chasselas are also permitted in the blend.  Perrier's Crémant is 85% Jacquère and 15% Chardonnay. The...

100% Jacquère. The cru of Apremont is planted on steeper slopes in comparison with Abymes. Stainless steel fermentation and aging.

The second label from Philip Togni Vineyard, "Tanbark Hill" comes from the same 10.5-acre estate vineyard as their eponymous wine and receives the same impeccable care in the cellar (20 months in 40% new French oak). The wine generally consists of fruit harvested from a 3-acre block (planted to 99...

Chardonnay/Pinot Noir/Pinot Meunier. This "Jardin d'Ulysse" 2015 is the first vintage of this wine, which comes from a 1.55-hectare plot of old vines, planted to all three varieties in Collin's home village of Congy (where it appears on local vineyard maps as "Le Village" and is referred to by...

100% Pinot Noir. 40% 2017 & 60% reserve wines. Les Maillons is a 6-hectare vineyard of which Collin owns 2.5 hectares in the village of Barbonne-Fayel in the Côte de Sézanne, just south of the Coteaux du Morin. The eastern-exposed Pinot Noir vines were planted in 1971 in heavy, iron-rich clay...

100% Chardonnay, sourced from vines over 25 years of age in a vineyard planted on limestone and clay soils in the town of Tonnerre (10 miles from Chablis, but no longer Chablis appellation). All the grapes are hand-harvested, and it is fermented and aged in stainless steel tanks before undergoing...