WINES BY THE GLASS

BUBBLES

PIERRE RICHARD CRÉMANT DU JURA ROSÉ $13/67
Pinot Noir/Chardonnay, Jura, FR, NV
Soft pink subterfuge. A gentle, inviting color masks big acid, as sour cherries mingle with rose petals and toasty almond brioche.

L’ENCHANTOIR ‘LA CHAVANNAISE’ $14/70
Cabernet Franc/Chenin Blanc/Chardonnay, Loire, FR, 2021
This shoulder season sparkler conjures ripe peppers on the vine, late autumn sunsets, cool salt-kissed skin and warm beach bonfires.

LES PETITS PROJETS CIDRE $10/45
Apples, Ardèche, FR, NV
A project from the winemakers at Le Mazel, Les Vigneaux and La Vrille et Le Papillon that’s being used to revitalize the school in their local village, foraging wild apples from the northern Rhône to make this raw, lively cider with Normandy aromatics and Basque-like acid and weight.

VINS BLANCS

JOSMEYER ‘MISE DU PRINTEMPS’ $12/61
Pinot Blanc, Alsace, FR, 2023
Concentrated fairytale juice from the land of half-timber houses, enchanted with the spirit of ripe stonefruit and overflowing flower boxes.

CONSTANT CRUSH WINE CO. $13/53
Chardonnay, Willamette Valley, OR, 2022
Imagine the Minutemen covering Mozart. When iconoclasts Bree and Chad Stock decide to make an “Oregon Chardonnay” of course they look to the Jura for inspiration. The fruit fermented outdoors in open tanks behind their barn, developed flor several times and produced a delightfully savory, oxidative and complex New Oregon wine with ancient roots.

LA VIGNE SAUVAGE ‘L’INSOUCIANCE’ $15/77
Chasselas, Savoie, FR, 2020
High altitude mountain wine from vineyards perched on the border of Lake Geneva. Like squeezing the juice from a cold, smooth stone just plucked from a freezing Alpine stream.

VINS ON THE SKINS

JEAN YVES MILLAIRE ‘À FLEUR DE PEAU’ $16/79
Sauvignon Gris, Bordeaux, FR, 2022
A robust variation of the more familiar “blanc,” this grape sees three weeks of fermentation on the skins. It looks like a white but has the tannic grip and structure one would expect from Bordeaux. A fantastic food wine ready for anything with cream or mushrooms.

BECHTOLD ‘NEF DES FOLLES’ $14/69
Pinot Gris, Alsace, FR, 2021
Macerated on its skins for 12 days and aged in a single old foudre, this is luscious, burnished orange wine with no added SO2. A silky stew of blood orange, apricot pits and chamomile.

VINS ROUGES

DOMAINE DE LA ROCHE BLEU ‘LA GUINGUETTE’ $14/74
Pineau d’Aunis/Gamay Noir, Loire, FR, 2022
Bright, tingly and lively just like the riverside parties the cuvée is named after. Rosy and peppery with bright red currants and a green sappiness. Charcuterie wine!

JEAN PAUL BRUN ‘TERRES DORÉES’ $15/78
Pinot Noir, Bourgogne, FR, 2022
Like a glowing ruby chalice full of fresh plums. JP Brun is known for his Beaujolais wines, but he’s held 5 hectares of Pinot Noir since 1991 and produces this stunner in classic Burgundian style.

BONNET HUTEAU ‘CABECÔT’ $13/60
Cabernet Franc/Côt, Val de Loire, FR, 2021
Silky blue fruit and dried red flowers from the heart of Muscadet country, light in body but big in flavor and texture.

VINS DOUX

CHATEAU DE LA SELVE ‘SOLERA MMXI’ $14
Viognier, Ardèche, FR, 2022
Northern Rhone white wine treated like sherry, Chateau de la Selve has been holding back a little of each previous vintage and topping off with the new year’s wine, essentially creating an infinity barrel. Rich, robust, harvesty, and fortified with just enough Marc to give it some backbone.

EMMANUEL CAMUT ‘AMBROSIA’ $16
Apple, Normandy, FR, NV
Emmanuel Camut and his brother Jean-Gab are the stewards of Adrien Camut Calvados, in our humble opinion the best apple brandy in the world, which makes his ‘Ambrosia’ the best Pommeau in the world. Emmanuel boils fresh apple juice overnight until it’s reduced by half before adding 4-year-old Calvados to stop fermentation, then letting it rest and meld in old Calvados barrels. Like deep, dark, wonderfully haunted balsamic apple juice.