Domaine de Colette Beaujolais-Villages Coteaux de Colette 2024 Grower Champagne Elena Penna and Luca Currado

Elena Penna and Luca Currado Vietti crafted this refined red vermouth from Nebbiolo wines (Barolo Ravera and Arneis) infused with thirty different Piedmont herbs and botanicals sourced from local

Alejandro Fernandez — the man widely credited with dragging Ribera del Duero into the modern era — bought this estate near Roa in 1987 as the family's dedicated second home for Tempranillo

and built to drink now rather than wait a decade

and aged nine months on lees in 85% American and 15% French oak

Domaine de Colette Beaujolais-Villages Coteaux de Colette 2024 Grower Champagne Elena Penna and Luca CurradoDomaine de Colette sits in Lantignie at the heart of the Beaujolais crus, run by Jacky Gauthier and his son Pierre Alexandre. The Coteaux de Colette is their Beaujolais Villages, sourced from old Gamay vines (60 plus years) on the hillside slopes around the estate. The Gauthiers farm sustainably and have been transitioning to organics, with bush trained vines and hand harvesting throughout. This is the kind of Villages bottling that drinks like a baby