JURA JACKPOT🤑

What’s up winos,

Megan AGAIN. I know, I know, I’m sick of me too. Lucky little Fionn is off in the Jura currently, having a whale of a time. But we can still have fun! Right??

Actually, tons of fun. Fionn might be in the Jura, but the Jura also just arrived here in the warehouse. Is that meta? Idk. Whatever it is, it means good news.

Big guns in first: extremely coveted and limited and rare and and and packs of Domaine de Saint Pierre, plus some excellent negoce gear from the same domaine. Wines that need no introduction, so I won’t introduce them. How easy is this?

Yet more big guns: extremely coveted and limited and rare and and and packs from Domaine des Cavarodes. Been lucky enough to drink a couple of these lately (thank u, France) and they are singing. Haven’t seen La Bulette in a LONG time, so welcome back, girlie. Two excellent VdF whites in the door too, the eclectic Mattard, Chardonnay with a dash of ‘20 Savagnin, and the Cuvé, a lively macerated Sav. Representing the red team we’ve got the Poulsard de Chemenot, energetic and bursting with cherry fruit and rose petal florals, and the light-as-air Pinot Les Lumachelles. Stupidly limited, stupidly good.

While we’re on the Jura, don’t sleep on our very own Jura import, Domaine Ratte. Probably my favourite Jura reds I’ve ever had, plus crystalline, elegant whites. We’re huge fans over here, and apparently the feeling is mutual, coz here’s Quentin Ratte repping his favourite wine bar at Jura wine fair Le Nez Dans le Vert:

Whew. That was a lot of excitement. Now you’ve all calmed down, a few other bits n pieces:

After a lengthy separation, plz welcome back to the stage Maison en Belles Lies, Burgundian project of Pierre Fenals who turned vigneron at the ripe old age of 51, after decades of working in the fashion industry in Paris. What’s it like to be so multi talented? I wouldn’t know. Unless being good at breaking down cardboard boxes and taking them out to the kerb for recycling counts? A mineral, baked fruit Chardonnay bomb from Santenay, the lesser spotted Monthelie Chardonnay (only 1% of all plots here house my fave grape!), floral and precise, and a whole bunch, old vine Pinot from Aloxe-Corton, fine-boned and elegant. Classy wines for classy people, aka, you.

One more bottle just coz I love it, and you, and coz this email has been on the pricier side - yet another bargain bottling from Etna stalwarts Vino di Anna. An eclectic blend (as is their calling card) of Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappuccio, Grenache and then a bunch of indigenous whites, this is unmistakbly Etna, from its volcanic minerality to its cherry fruit to the fact that you should put it in the fridge for twenty minutes and then drink the whole thing.

If you’re a bargain hunter you could do worse than joining us on the 9th of April for an evening with Weingut Heinrich, kings of biodynamics and queens of delicious, natty, wallet-friendly wines. C u there.

That’s all from me, I need to go text Fionn to make sure he didn’t have too much to drink and put a downpayment on a house in Arbois with a wine cellar attached.

xoxo

Megan