100% Grenache. From 80+-year-old vines on classic sandy, gravelly soils laden with the stones known as galets roulés.  They are planted in a flat, north-facing parcel in the lieu-dit of Bois Sénéchaux and are certified organic. Texier has been working with vineyard owner/farmer Jean Riché and these...

From Eric Texier himself: "From a handful of rows in our 0.5 ha of a very particular strain of Serine. Planted in the 1930’s in the Masson parcel of Saint-Julien en-Saint-Alban in the lieu-dit Le Clau. They present unique ampelographic qualities, very different from the Serines we find in Brézème...

45% Grenache/35% Cinsault/20% Clairette. Mainly from vines planted on a south-facing slope on granite soils in the warm St-Julien en St-Alban zone (in the Ardèche on the northern bank of the Ouvèze tributary of the Rhône River, at the southern edge of the northern Rhône Valley). The farming is...

100% Syrah. From Texier's younger (20-40-year-old) vines, planted on a south-facing, limestone marl slope of the Brézème zone (on eastern side of the Rhône River at the southern edge of the northern Rhône Valley). They are organically farmed and harvested by hand. The vinification and aging are...

In 2012, Agnès met Elisabetta Foradori, who makes wine from the local Teroldego in the Italian Dolomites, notably in amphora. Agnès said that the first wine she tasted from Elisabetta was a white made in amphora and it gave her “the sensation of touching a truth that resonated in me, a wine that...

100% Trebbiano. From organically farmed vines on sandy, rocky, clay-limestone soils sourced from a grower in Lamporecchio near Pisa. The bunches are harvested by hand and destemmed; the fruit is fermented spontaneously with native yeasts and without sulfur  or temperature control in concrete tank....

A co-ferment of 74% Cabernet Franc and 26% Syrah from Ponderosa Vineyard in Nevada County, Sierra Foothills. Crushed by foot and fermented whole-cluster. 

Mourvèdre from the organically farmed granite soils of Cedarville Vineyard in the Sierra Foothills. Foot crushed, whole cluster fermented in open top tanks, and aged in a combination of tanks and barrel. Pure red fruits with a nice dose of mint and earth.

'Muy Feliz' is a bright and chillable red with a light fizz! 100% Gamay from Barsotti Vineyard, which is situated east of Placerville, at just under 3,000 feet in elevation. The Gamay vines at Barsotti were originally planted in 2005 on a hillside of decomposed granite soils. The grapes underwent...

Syrah (50%), Cabernet Sauvignon (50%) from two mountainside parcels in North Yuba. These low-yielding vines are own-rooted and 40+ years old, all farming is organic, no till, and dry farmed. The fruit was foot stomped and fermented with stems, then matured in used barrels for 36 months before...

Cinsault~Carignan from Preston Vineyards in the Dry Creek Valley AVA of Sonoma County. This organically farmed site is noteworthy for it's 85+ year-old Carignan (and Zin!) plantings on well draining, gravelly soils. The Cinsault block dates to the mid to late 1980's. The fruit is foot stomped and...

100% Hand-Harvested Listán Negro. Two to four hour maceration; fermented and aged in stainless steel tanks with indigenous yeasts. Bright pink, dry, and refreshing, with red fruit flavors and a hint of amaro on the finish, underpinned by signature Canary volcanic minerality.

100% Vijariego Blanco from ungrafted grapevines. Vijariego Blanco is the most acidic variety from the Canary Islands. It also adapts itself very well to different environments. The plots where this fruit comes from are in the villages of San Juan de la Rambla, La Guancha and Icod de los Vinos, in...

100% Listán Negro from ungrafted grapevines of more than 100 years old. Grown between 300 and 700 meters above sea level, in the northwest of Tenerife. After a week maceration the wine is made in tank and then left to age for three months in three to five years-old 225L French oak barrels.

100% Gual, which Jesus vinifies as if they were red grapes (in the “ancestral” style). Macerated for three weeks on the skins; the extended maceration time results in a beguilingly aromatic wine. Gual is a light-colored grape, so the wine’s color is not deep orange the way other wines made in this...

Lomo de la Era is a vineyard located in the Paraje de la Cruz Santa, in the western part of La Orotava Valley where the volcanic soils are predominantly young and rocky. The old vines, grown at a 500 meters above sea level, are trained using the traditional cordón trenzado method, meaning "braided...

100%  Cabernet Franc. "La Singulière" comes from a single Picasses parcel named Vaux, with 40-year-old vines that are certified organic and on limestone-rich clay soils like all of their Picasses holding. The yield is kept to 35hl/ha.  The wine starts out being made identically to the Picasses...

100% Cabernet Franc. Raffault uses 50% certified-organic estate fruit (from sandy, gravelly, flat parcels along the Vienne) and sources the other 50% from a neighboring grower in conversion to organic farming. All of the wine is made from hand-harvested fruit in the Raffault cellar. Half of the...