There's a common thread among many of the Northern Rhône producers that most excite us: they come from a somewhat nebulous area known as the Ardèche.

We worked our butts off over the holiday season and finally got the team together to celebrate as wine retailers do: by popping bottles BYOB at a fav haunt.

Fanny Daher's LA BALADEUSE is a new perspective on the South of France: from tiny quantities of grapes from a range of biodynamic vineyards across the region, she's making the kind of lifted, juicy styles that speak our language.

It’s a breath of fresh air, and we’re excited to welcome these new-to-the-US wines to the shop.

One of the most exciting domestic projects is happening right in our backyard, at FLORAL TERRANES: hyper-local (foraged!) cider and wine made by Erik Longabardi (a teacher for children on the spectrum) and Benford Lepley (a photography retoucher).

Not unlike the micro-négociants of Burgundy, this group comes from different backgrounds, bringing new energy to Piemonte–and a new group of wine lovers with them.

I’ve now been eating and drinking in NYC for 15 years and it's a lot of fun to look back at trends and phases our city’s beverage scene has gone through.

Michel Gahier is one of our perennial favorites from Jura's Arbois.

There are a Gran Reserva sized amount of recipes out there but we opt for the simple and thoughtful NYTIMES take HERE. And, because we can't help switching a few things around, here’s our adapted recipe.

La Ciguapa is enchanting New York.

It’s hard to overstate how important Domaine Lapierre has been to the world of natural wine. Perhaps it’s too breezy to say, but from the relative obscure environs of Villié-Morgon, Marcel Lapierre (inspired by Jules Chauvet) helped to kickstart the anti-industrial wine revolution.

For almost 20 years, Jean-Jacques Morel made perhaps the most radical wine in all of Burgundy.

Every once in a while we taste a wine that stops us dead in our tracks and forces us to rethink our assumptions about a certain grape or region.

On the map of the natural wine world, dotted with its unquestionable capitals, the postage stamp-sized AOCs of Cheverny and Cour-Cheverny are firmly marked.

As our hearts swell with joy this time of year, so does our collection of grower Champagne–more dynamic and avant-garde with every vintage.

In Tenerife, a passport of varietals are living a distinct island life: there's jungle and volcano alongside desert and beach, all terroirs which have been under vine since the 18th century.

We're having a “wait a minute” moment with Bordeaux.

Sangiovese from Radda is dizzying in its complexity. And lucky for us, there's lots to explore.