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Like Chablis, the name Chianti used to bring to mind inexpensive plonk. A straw-covered “fiasco” bottle with dripping candle wax still jumps to the minds of many.

The last seven years have done wonders for these wines, and so we’ve collected six of our favorites into a sampler: 3 red Burgundies and 3 red Rhônes, all from 2012.

To know French wines is to understand French winegrowing regions. Each region has its own history, rules, traditions, grapes, and customs -- they're almost like separate countries when it comes to winemaking.

Twelve wines, all 25% off! Highlights include: legendary 5-year-old premier cru red Burgundy, everyday Syrah blend under $12, premier cru Chassagne-Montrachet, old-vine Chablis under $20, and more! Sale ends 1/31/19.

French wines have long been the focus of the Ansonia portfolio. Of the 45 winemakers we work with, about half are from Burgundy, and all but a few are French. Our longtime exception to this rule is the Fattoria Poggerino. Poggerino’s wines are all pure sangiovese — dark, delicately balanced expressions of an intense, powerful […]

France’s Rhône valley produces rich, smooth red blends, perfect for a wintery afternoon meal. At one end there’s Châteauneuf-du-Pape, famous and long-lived; at the other there’s Côtes du Rhône, uncomplicated and inexpensive. Today’s wine is from the middle.

We've collected five new samplers to help with gift giving this month. (And if one of them happens to find its way to your own cellar, we promise not to tell...)

No town is more celebrated for its wines than Vosne-Romanée. Home to some of the world’s finest and most sought-after bottles, Vosne is undoubtedly the most famous Pinot Noir village on earth. Michel Gros is a lifelong resident, and his family has made wine there for centuries.

We raided our offsite warehouse a few weeks ago, and have brought some older gems with a bit of bottle age. Stay tuned over the next month for a series of throwback wines (including some really exciting old Burgundies this Friday). Today’s pick should hardly be considered old, but it’s in a lovely place.

We often preach the value of well-aged wines. Under the right conditions, time has a magical effect on a bottle of wine. Usually it’s red wines (or sometimes whites) that are ageworthy, but we often forget the third category: Champagne.

With the weather finally turning cooler, we’re beginning to reach for richer reds from the southern half of France. Today we’re highlighting three of our favorites from three of the Rhône Valley’s most famous appellations: Cornas, Côte Rôtie, and Châteauneuf-du-Pape. All are intense, rich, meaty and just delicious -- they’re available by the bottle, but if you pick up a…

We often joke that inhabitants of the Beaujolais consider themselves Burgundian, but that the rest of Burgundy isn’t quite as sure. And while differences between the two halves abound -- grape varietal, soil type, landscape, etc. -- they share a tradition and style as well.

For the careful shopper, the Languedoc can be an abundant resource. Long deserving its reputation for mediocrity, the region has only recently become a source of value. There’s still plenty of bad wine made in the vast region, but if you make good choices, $16 will take you farther here than just about anywhere else.

In our fast-paced and impatient world, cellaring wine has become rare. Not all wines are meant to age, and indeed the wine world’s style continues to shift toward early maturity. But for wine that is built to be cellared, the transformation by bottle aging is nothing short of magic. Today we’re suggesting 2012 Morey-St-Denis 1er […]