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Vibrant, Silky Chambolle-Musigny from our Exciting New Source

We’re delighted to welcome Christian Clerget back into the Ansonia portfolio. Thirtysomething Justine Clerget (Christian’s daughter) is now in charge, and has brought renewed energy, refined techniques, and a passion for organic viticulture. The Clerget wines were always classical, terroir-transparent, old school red Burgundy; Justine has maintained this spirit but added polish and class.

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Exquisite, Meursault-Like White Burgundy

Vincent Boyer lost nearly 90% of his Meursault crop in a single cold night in April 2021. The resulting wines were tremendously successful, but exceedingly rare – indeed we’ve almost sold every bottle already. Somewhat unusually, however, the frost spared Vincent’s regional-level wines: Bourgogne Côte d’Or, and Aligoté.

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Terrific New 2022 Syrah from a Northern Rhône Star

Stephane Robert of the Domaine du Tunnel is one of the brightest stars in Cornas. He’s humble and quiet in person, but his wines are bold, assertive, and charming. Robert farms an envious collection of old Syrah vines around the tiny appellation, and his wines are well worthy of their hype. Vinous calls Tunnel “among the top producers of Cornas.”

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Wine Club is Back!

With the summer heat now (mostly) behind us, we’re delighted to announce the restart of our monthly wine club! We’ve made a few changes, and have added to the membership offering. Join the wine club and, like last year, you can expect: 3 bottles delivered monthly; white or red 10-20% off retail value of the […]

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Bursting, Vibrant, Sophisticated Old-Vine Sancerre

Sancerre remains among the world’s best known white wines. Sauvignon blanc, a naturally high acid grape, is well positioned to weather today’s hot summers without losing pep and energy. Our source here is the Domaine de la Garenne, an old family domaine of the highest quality, practicing organic viticulture and on track for EU certification next year.

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Exciting New Organic, Unoaked White Burgundy

Romain Collet is an innovator. Each time we visit he has a new project – bold new French labels, more clay amphora, a gin (yes, gin!) collaboration with a local friend. And yet his lineup of Chablis remains classical and delicious. In the face of blazing hot recent summers, Romain continues to fashion cuvées that show their terroir with clarity…

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Dry, Vibrant, Delicious New Vouvray, $25

Vouvray is a hard wine to pin down – it ranges from very sweet to bone dry and from sparkling to still. The most famous cuvées from top names will improve for decades, and are among the world’s longest lived wines. We enjoy almost any expression of Vouvray, but our favorite is the simplest – still, fresh, early-drinking, and dry.

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“Crisp, cool, classically Chablis.” $32

Master of Wine Jasper Morris is an eloquent, experienced, extremely British wine writer, who doesn’t throw the word “superb” around lightly. And so while we at Ansonia have held this opinion of Cyril Gautheron for years, we took note when earlier this year he called him “a superb producer making wines in a crisp cool classically Chablis style, which is…

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Piercing New Dry Riesling from Austria. $25

The lone Austrian source in our catalog is the Weingut Salomon-Undof, a centuries old domaine overlooking the Danube river. They’re best known for their Grüner Veltliner, a humble grape that’s synonymous with Austrian winemaking. But we’re very fond of their Rieslings – dry, stony, piercing interpretations of the grape that are the perfect defense against a hot muggy summer evening.