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Where to buy Scherrer Wines in Chicagoland?

Click on the map above to find restaurants and retailers that carry, or have recently carried Fred Scherrer’s wines in our fair city and suburbs. Check out a few of the pictures below to see where Fred’s wines come from.      

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Where to buy Girasole wines in Chicagoland?

Click on the map above to find restaurants and retailers that carry, or have recently carried Charlie Barra’s wines in our fair city and suburbs. Check out the picture below to see where Girasole wines come from.

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Where to buy Santomè wines in Chicagoland?

Click on the map above to find restaurants and retailers that carry, or have recently carried Santomè’s wines in our fair city and suburbs. Check out a few of the pictures below to see where Santomè’s wines come from.

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Finding Jasci

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Alsace's newest Grand Cru Vineyard, Kaeffekopf

Alsace’s newest Grand Cru Vineyard, Kaeffekopf

From just one Grand Cru Vineyard, Jean produces as many as seven different wines, vinifying and bottling Riesling and Gewurztraminer from different types of subsoil separately. Jean’s “Gewürztraminer Kaefferkopf” is a stunning value, while his “Cuvée Catherine” is rich and broad’ a testament to what good Gewurtz can be.   Read more about Schaetzel

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Lambert

Pascal Lambert making biodynamic preparations

Pascal Lambert makes myriad preparations from a base of various plants as weed killers, fertilizers, and supplements for his vines.  Here he is at work with his wooden “dynamiser”, the barrel in which biodynamic preparations are mixed. Read more about Lambert

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Champagne Pierre Moncuit, Champagne

Where is Champagne Pierre Moncuit?

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Chinon-and-Vouvray

Situating Les Chesnaies and Chinon

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Harvesting

Hand Harvesting Cabernet Franc at Les Chesnaies

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Mathilde

Cuvée Mathilde: Rosé from Chinon

Mathilde, 100% juicy Cab Franc. Immensely popular on and off premise, this is a bone dry and wonderfully fruit rosé from Les Chesnaies that we would drink all year round, if we did not sell out if it by late fall each year.  We adore this wine. Vineyard:   – Age of the vines: 10 [...]

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