Drink Up, Stock Up

Savvy collectors keep cellars with a healthy balance of wines that are ready to drink and wines that need aging. Whichever side you’re currently buying for, we’ve got you covered today. And while you’ll see some usual suspects, you’ll also notice a slew of names you haven’t seen in a while—or perhaps ever—making for an especially thrilling Friday List. 

We begin with the rarest wine in today’s offer: Astéroide, from Bejamin Dagueneau. With a production of only 400 bottles, this may as well be called “comet,” as your chance to taste this truly singular expression of Sauvignon Blanc may not come again soon. Similarly unique (though much more accessible) is Cheval Blanc’s brilliant white, and from the greatest vintage of the last 20 years. From Burgundy, we have an extraordinary assortment of Chardonnays from Roulot, Raveneau, Ramonet, Lamy-Caillat, Comtes Lafon, Hubert Lamy and Jacques Carillon. 

Did we run an entire Champagne offer earlier this month? Yes. Have we since reloaded on incredible bubbly to offer you again this week? Absolutely. This time around we have the latest releases of Krug’s Grande Cuvée (170 and 171), plus yet another vintage of Taittinger’s Comtes de Champagne (the brilliant 2008). We also still have a tiny bit of Comtes 2012 and 2013 available—both at the best prices in the US—so fans of perhaps the best QPR in prestige sparkling, take note. 

In reds, we have tremendous back vintage bottlings from Cappellano and Giuseppe Rinaldi that serious Barolo collectors will not want to miss. For Pahlmeyer diehards (we know you’re reading), we have the ultimate parcel: 4 vintages of the flagship Piece de Resistance. For the uninitiated, this is a mailing list only offering that is remarkably rare (especially for Napa producers), and allocations are usually only a single bottle. From Bordeaux, the heavy hitters are out in force, including Haut-Brion, La Mission Haut-Brion, Montrose, Les Forts de Latour, and Léoville Barton. Burgundy sports its own who’s who, with reds from Chevillon, Dujac, Drouhin, Roumier, and Mugneret-Gibourg. And as if that weren’t enough, there’s more on offer that we haven’t even begun to cover here—so be sure to explore this week’s full list!