Join us on Friday, June 29th to taste Orange V Vodka, Redemption Rye and Redemption High-Rye Bourbon.  Our friend Dave Schmier will be at Crush between 5:30 and 7:30 pouring.

July 4th is just around the corner, the market is teeming with squash and basil and even tomatoes have made an appearance... It seems like the right time to get a summer mixed case together.

Monsecco is one of the newest additions to Neal Rosenthal's strong portfolio. Rosenthal has been a long-time champion of Piedmont's hinterlands: Ferrando's legendary Carema is a monument to his passion for the area. It also underscores his ability to discover great producers in obscure places.

There is nothing that can be said about Bordeaux that hasn't been said many times before: Bordeaux is one of those near-mythical wine regions - it's the place many people begin their serious wine journey. It's the place you could easily spend a lifetime studying... enjoying.

As Andrew Jefford makes clear above, Chevillon is the master of Nuits St. Georges. This is why we've been trying to build a war chest of Chevillon's 2010s.

The more I drink Schaefer Rieslings, the more I realize how simply profound these wines are. NOBODY does detail or fine-ness with a more ethereal, uncomplicated grace.

And here, he breaks it down - Levet's Côte-Rôtie Chavaroche is one of the great wines in his strong portfolio.

Levet's Chavaroche offers a glimpse of Syrah at its rawest, its most wild, and its most beautiful.

Ponsot produces some of the most individual Burgundies you'll ever taste, and as Clive Coates notes above, some of the best.

The style is unmistakable: Deep, textured, so powerfully dark-fruited and yet, incredibly vivid and elegant. There is a signature at Ponsot that sets them apart from everything in the Cote d'Or.

Today, in New York at least: temperatures are high, prices are low.

There are some gems here - some seriously revered wines, like the 61 Conternos and 71 Mascarellos. However, this is not all about grandeur for deep pockets - there are some more affordable bottles (1997 Sandrones, 2003 and 2001 Usseglio to name but a few) that are just outrageously delicious and in beautiful form.

When it comes to Butteaux, there's much to be said. Butteaux is home to Raveneau's oldest vines and there is, for sure, the tightly coiled and soil-imbued quality to the wine that drives its old vine origins home. In Raveneau's hands, the site becomes a gorgeous weave of chiseled minerality, stone fruits and citrus. Above all else, Butteaux is about being linear and mineral. It's high-tension Chablis.