A whole lot of wine just landed. We’ll be diving into the highlights all week long, but wanted to kick things off with a thread we noticed through many of the new arrivals: brand-new cuvées from producers we already love.

Some come from longtime favorites expanding their lineups in thoughtful, exciting ways. A few are totally unexpected. And all are worth knowing about.

As fresh faces go, these are limited and arrive once a year. We hope some find their way home with you.

THOMAS PICO'S FRUIT → CLARISSE DE SUREMAIN'S CHABLIS

Clarisse de Suremain is a young micro-negoce quickly turning heads with her Beaune-based wines. Her newest release expands the work with her first Chablis ($44); impressively, with pristine fruit sourced from organic icon (and past employer) Thomas Pico. Few farm better than him in the appellation.

Spontaneously fermented and minimally sulfured, this is an exciting expression of Chablis. More open knit and charming than Pico’s, it’s a different view of a source we know and love so well.

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ROMAIN LE BARS X NICOLAS RENAUD COLLAB

This is fun and feels a little bit like a House-of-Eric-Pfifferling reunion. These two Tavel talents (both students of L'Anglore) have come together to blend fruit from their respective estates in make a unique, totally quenching cuvée: Le Nuits de Java ($36). Le Bars contributes ruby-red, carbonically macerated and direct-pressed Tavel, while Renaud’s 'La Côte' brings direct-pressed Clairette and Grenache Blanc.

Zero sulfur, no fining or filtration. Party in a bottle.

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LA PORTE SAINT JEAN'S __

Sylvain Dittière is an extreme talent in Saumur, making some of our favorite wines in the appellation. His impressive 2023s just landed—alongside a new experimental cuvée he began in 2020 and only just released: Le Blanc ($150).

The cheekily named wine is one of patience and a show of well-earned confidence. Dittière took Chenin (from Le Perlée) and direct-pressed Cabernet Franc (from Les Pouches), aging the provocative blend in just three tiny feuillette barrels for over four years. The result is dizzying—an original with no real reference point in Saumur (or, really, anywhere else).

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BENOIT COURAULT'S NEWEST CAB FRANC

Courault has a penchant for employing low intervention, natural techniques to make some of Anjou’s most delicious wines. Joining his pure fruited lineup is 'La Grande Maille' ($54) – pure Cabernet Franc named for the single site it comes from.

It replaces his previous 'Rouliers' in the lineup and grows on a north-facing parcel that captures the fresh, lively side of the grape. Aged simply in used wood, it's an elegant, aromatic wine that's tough to put down.

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PIERRE-OLIVIER GARCIA'S NEWEST RED

Though we focused on his new Aligotés in the lineup last week, POG also added a new Côte de Nuits bottling 'Au Leurey' ($115) which comes from just south of his Nuits-Saint-Georges sites.

Employing his signature ‘berry by berry’ method, it shows an open knit side of his wines. A pure fruited, wildly delicious wine from one Burgundy’s hottest hands.

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CALEB LEISURE IS BACK!

This past weekend we highlighted recent domestic arrivals which are as plentiful as they are diverse. Arguably the most unique in the lot are those from Caleb Leisure. And luckily, they're back: we originally carried the wines almost 8 years ago but he's been out of the NY market (and, difficult to track down – he's only recently launched a website).

The work is deeply rooted in Leisure’s respect and admiration for traditional Georgian wine made in clay qvevri. He's the only US producer to use authentic qvevri and, as they do in Georgia, he buries them in the cellar floor for traditionally cool, natural fermentations. Add to that his organically farmed California fruit, and the results are singular in domestic wine: Cali sunshine with the oxygen of amphora and zero influence of wood. For many NY-based wine lovers, these are a first; and we can't recommend them highly enough.

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LOTS OF 'LOTS' FIRSTS

Also in the roundup of exciting domestic arrivals: a breadth of wine from Lady of the Sunshine. Gina Giugni (whose husband Mikey makes the extremely compatible Scar of the Sea lineup with the same raw materials) makes some of California's most refined, nuanced wines, in San Luis Obispo's shiny new SLO Coast AVA.

Gina and Mikey are the new owners of iconic Bassi Vineyard, and the next several vintages will be full of extremely exciting additions (they are growing Frappato!). But this release sees new cuvées from another one of their vineyards, Mountain Meadow – 4 breathtaking dry farmed acres planted in a meadow just 4 miles from the pacific. This includes Gina's first sparkling wine, a hauntingly pretty solera Pinot Noir Blanc de Noirs ($61); and a fragrant whole cluster Pinot Noir ($50) with a label that is exceptionally fun to touch.

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