Event Calendar
From weekly Wine Wednesday flights to live jazz in the back room, there's usually something happening at Négociant. Check the calendar and come as you are.Wine Wednesday: The Dark Side of Rosé
Rosé gets boxed in more than any other category — too pink for red drinkers, too serious for rosé skeptics. This flight leans into the darker end of the spectrum, where the wines blur the line between rosé and light red and get more interesting for it. Three pours built for that in-between space: Clos Saron "Cerise" Rosé, Sierra de Toloño Rioja Rosado, and Buffo Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo from Tenuta Cipressi.
Wine Wednesday: What the Schist!?
Soil shapes wine more than most people realize, and schist is one of the more distinctive influences out there — known for pushing minerality and tension into whatever's planted above it. This flight puts that to the test with three chenins from the Loire Valley, all grown on schist, each showing a different side of the same story: Terres d'Imaginaire Feu Follet 2024, Ogereau la Sponaire 2024, and Plaisance Anjou Blanc 2024.
Wine Wednesday: Orange Wine
We love how near the end of summer everything is sunkissed and we’re embracing wines of the same hue: Orange! Skin-contact wines have been made for centuries, but today’s versions are some of the most fun, distinctive, and thought-provoking bottles on our shelves. Expect a lineup of our current favorite cuvées that balance freshness, texture, and bold personality.
Wine Wednesday: Forgotten Grapes
Some varieties fall out of favor not because they're lesser, but because they're harder to grow, harder to sell, or just out of fashion. This flight is a case for three of them — overlooked grapes still hanging on in very specific corners of the Loire: Menu Pineau, Romorantin, and Grolleau Gris.
Wine Wednesday: New Kids of Burgundy — Bret Brothers
Something is shifting in Burgundy, and Bret Brothers is one of the more interesting names in that story. We’ll be pouring 3 wines from the Bret Brothers Négoce project: Terroirs du Mâconnais, Pouilly-Fuissé Climat Le Clos Reyssié, Saint-Amour Côte de Besset. This is the fifth installment in a monthly series highlighting the growers, regions, and projects redefining what Burgundy can be. Come taste where it's headed.
Wine Wednesday: New Kids of Burgundy — Petit-Roy
Something is shifting in Burgundy, and Petit-Roy is one of the more interesting names in that story. Seiichi Saito — born in China, raised in Japan, trained at some of Burgundy's most respected domaines — founded his micro-négoce in 2017 after years working alongside the likes of Mugnier, Rousseau, and Leflaive. He farms 2.1 hectares biodynamically and sources additional fruit from trusted growers, making wines that are whole-cluster, unfined, unfiltered, and quietly precise. The kind of wines that feel both rooted in Burgundy and entirely their own.
This is the fourth in a monthly series where we'll highlight growers, regions, and projects redefining what Burgundy can be.
Come taste where Burgundy is headed.
Flight $25
Wine Wednesday: Ancestral Bubbles
Before Champagne codified the rulebook, there was pét-nat. Short for pétillant naturel, it's the oldest method of making sparkling wine: the wine is bottled before fermentation is complete, the bubbles develop naturally inside, and what you get is something livelier, wilder, and a little less predictable than your average glass of fizz. No dosage, no disgorgement, no formula. Just fermentation doing its thing.
It's also exactly what you want on a warm August evening. Refreshing, easy to love, and almost impossible to put down.
Wine Wednesday: Volcanic Wine
Vines grown on volcanic soils always grab our attention. The combination of extreme drainage, mineral-rich earth, and often punishing conditions produces wines with a tension and energy you can feel. Bright, precise, and impossible to ignore — volcanic wines have a way of making you pay attention.
This flight pulls from three distinct volcanic regions, each one shaped by different eruptions, different soils, and different grapes. The through line is that electric quality that keeps you coming back for another sip.
Wine Wednesday: Salty White Wine (Encore)
There's a category of white wine you reach for without thinking twice, something coastal and saline and alive in the glass. This flight is exactly that. Three whites from three very different places, united by a mineral pull and a kind of brightness that makes them easy to love all year, but especially in August.
A category of white wine that we like to reach for again and again
Wine Wednesday: New Kids of Burgundy — Raphaëlle Guyot
Burgundy's story doesn't begin and end on the Côte d'Or. Raphaëlle Guyot is working on its westernmost edge, in the Yonne — a microregion so thoroughly ravaged by phylloxera in the 19th century that most of its vineyards were never replanted. She grew up on her family farm here, left to train with some of the Loire and Burgundy's most thoughtful producers, and came back to restore what was lost. She farms biodynamically, works with minimal intervention, and makes wines with a distinct sense of where they're from.
This is the third in a monthly series where we'll highlight growers, regions, and projects redefining what Burgundy can be.
Come taste where Burgundy is headed.
Wine Wednesday: Everyone Needs a Riesling — Clemens Busch
Few grapes are as misunderstood as Riesling, and few producers make the case for it as clearly as Clemens Busch. His family has farmed the steep slate slopes above Pünderich on the Mosel since the 1600s, converting to organic and then biodynamic viticulture in the 1980s. The three wines in this flight are named for the color of the slate beneath them — red, gray — and the vineyard where the vines grow. Dry, precise, and rooted in place. A good reminder that Riesling is one of the most expressive grapes in the world.
Wine Wednesday: Southern Italian Summer — L'Archetipo
The heel of Italy's boot, hot and ancient and sun-baked, doesn't always get credit for wines with this kind of energy. L'Archetipo is a family estate in Castellaneta farming 20 hectares of native varieties — Verdeca, Falanghina, Fiano, Primitivo — using synergistic agriculture, indigenous yeasts, and no filtration. The south of Italy in a glass. Come find out what you've been missing.
Wine Wednesday: Staff Picks from the Cellar
We're heading back into the cellar. This flight pulls from bottles that have been quietly aging, overlooked gems, and selections we've been especially excited to revisit with a little more time on their side. A thoughtful range of styles, vintages, and regions — each pour a small discovery, and a reminder of how well wine can evolve.
Wine Wednesday: Mediterranean France
Les Cigales dans la Fourmilière translates, loosely, as "the cicadas in the anthill" — and the wines follow the spirit of the name. Julie Brosselin and Ivo Ferreira farm 10 hectares of organic vines in the hills of Montpeyroux, just 30 kilometers from the Mediterranean, making wines that are lighter and fresher than you'd expect from the sun-baked Languedoc. Skin contact, co-fermentation, minimal intervention. Each bottle a small defiance of convention.
Wine Wednesday : New Kids of Burgundy – Chantereves
Something is shifting in Burgundy. A new generation of growers is farming organically, working with less sulfur, and making wines that drink earlier and feel more alive, without losing sight of what makes the region matter in the first place.
Chantereves is one of the producers leading that charge. Husband and wife Tomoko Kuriyama and Guillaume Bott started as a small négociant project in 2010, sourcing organic fruit from growers across the region and making wines with precision and restraint. This is the second in a monthly series where we'll highlight the people, villages, and vineyards defining this new wave.
Come taste where Burgundy is headed. Flight $25
Wine Wednesday : French Sparkling
Champagne gets all the attention, and fair enough. But France has been making traditional-method sparkling wine well beyond the borders of that famous region for centuries. Crémant is the category: same approach, different terroir. We're pouring three of them from three distinct corners of the country, each one shaped by local grapes and local soils.
Bright, celebratory, and worth exploring. Flight $20
Wine Wednesday : Jura from Domaine Overnoy
The Jura is a small, quietly obsessed corner of eastern France that has been making some of the most distinctive wines in the country for a long time. Domaine Overnoy is a family name with deep roots here. Guillaume Overnoy now farms the 5.5-hectare estate his father Jean-Louis built in the Sud Revermont, working organically across a handful of plots with Chardonnay, Trousseau, Poulsard, and Pinot Noir. These are precise, textured wines shaped by the region's wild soils and unhurried pace.
Come get acquainted. Flight $20
Wine Wednesday : Salty White Wine
There's a category of white wine you reach for without thinking twice, something coastal and saline and alive in the glass. This flight is exactly that. Three whites from three very different places, united by a mineral pull and a kind of brightness that makes them easy to love all year, but especially now. Flight $20
Come sip something crisp!
Wine Wednesday : New Kids of Burgundy – Le Puy de l’Ours
Something is shifting in Burgundy. A new generation of growers is farming organically, working with less sulfur, and making wines that drink earlier and feel more alive, without losing sight of what makes the region matter in the first place.
Le Puy de l'Ours is one of the producers leading that charge, and this is the first in a monthly series where we'll highlight the people, villages, and vineyards defining this new wave.
Come taste where Burgundy is headed.
Wine Wednesday : Italian Rosé
Rosé gets pigeon-holed. Pale, poolside, easy drinking — that's the story, anyway. But the category has far more range than its reputation suggests, and Italian rosato might be the best argument for that.
This week we're pouring three that show how much sophistication and joy pink wine can hold.
Wine Wednesday : Chenin: Sparkling and Still – Michel Autran
Michel Autran spent nearly 20 years as an emergency medicine doctor before the wine bug bit hard enough. He left medicine, apprenticed under some of the Loire's best Chenin producers, and started his domaine in 2011 with half a hectare of vines. The rest followed slowly and deliberately, which is kind of the whole point.
Working exclusively dry since 2017, a genuine rarity in Vouvray, Autran harvests only perfectly ripe fruit and ages his wines for a minimum of two years.
The results are precise, alive, and a little hard to put down.
This week we're pouring three expressions: a pét-nat, and two still Chenin that show just how much range one grape and one committed grower can cover.
Wine Wednesday : Orange Wine
Skin-contact wines have been around for centuries, but today's versions are some of the most fun, distinctive, and thought-provoking bottles on our shelves. There's a reason they've moved from curiosity to staple, and spring feels like exactly the right moment to pour them.
Expect a lineup of current favorites that balance freshness, texture, and a little personality.
Wine Wednesday : Mediterranean Island Wine
Islands make their mark on wine. Surrounded by sea, shaped by wind and heat and ancient soils, the Mediterranean's islands have been growing grapes for thousands of years — and the wines they produce carry that sense of place in every glass.
This flight pulls from three different islands across the Mediterranean, each with its own character, its own native grapes, and its own story to tell. Expect something a little sun-drenched, a little wild, and genuinely worth exploring.
Wine Wednesday : New School Burgundy – Chausse Selections
Burgundy has a new wave, and it's worth paying attention to. In collaboration with Chausse Selections — an importer focused on organic, regenerative, and natural wines — we're pouring a flight that captures what's happening in the region right now: growers working closer to the land and making wines that feel alive, expressive, and a little less reverent about the rules.
Come find out what New School Burgundy tastes like.
Wine Wednesday : Alpine Spain – 4 Monos
4 Monos started the way good things often do: four friends met while hiking in the Sierra de Gredos, fell hard for the mountains, and decided to make wine there. Located about 80km west of Madrid at elevations between 600 and 1,200 meters, the Gredos range is granite and old bush vines and wildflowers — a landscape that sits somewhere between Mediterranean and Alpine, and produces wines that feel just as alive.
Wine Wednesday : Staff Picks from the Cellar
We're heading back into the cellar. This flight is a mix of bottles that have been quietly aging, overlooked gems, or selections we've been especially excited to revisit with a little more time on their side.
Expect a thoughtful mix of styles, vintages, and regions — each pour offering a pleasant surprise and a reminder of how beautifully white wines can evolve.
Wine Wednesday : French Wine with Louis Dressner Selections
Louis/Dressner Selections has spent over 30 years seeking out small, independent growers — farmers who work their land carefully and let their wines speak for themselves. With a portfolio spanning France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia, and Chile, what ties it all together isn't geography but a shared sense of honesty and character in the glass.
This week we're pulling three wines from the French side of the cellar: a Beaujolais and a pair from the Loire — different soils, different grapes, different moods, but that same thread running through all of them.
A slightly heady, thoroughly enjoyable evening. Come pull up a seat.
Wine Wednesday : Women in Wine: Part 3 – Local
We close out the month by celebrating outstanding women making wine closer to home. This flight features three local cuvées from impressive female vignerons, showcasing the depth and diversity of our region.
Come join us!
Wine Wednesday : Women in Wine: Part 2 – Italy
Our Women in Wine series continues with a spotlight on Italy. Join us as we pour three vibrant, thoughtfully crafted cuvées from talented female producers who are shaping the future of Italian wine.
Come join us!
Wine Wednesday : Women in Wine: Part 1 – France
March is Women’s History Month, and we’re celebrating by highlighting brilliant female winemakers. This week we focus on France, featuring three elegant, expressive, and delicious cuvées from inspiring vigneronnes working across distinct regions and styles.
Come join us!
Wine Wednesday : Anniversary Edition - Staff Picks from the Cellar
We’re turning four! To celebrate, we’re heading into the cellar and pulling out a trio of bottles that are ready for their moment. These are wines that have been quietly aging, overlooked gems, or selections we’ve been especially excited to revisit with a little more time on their side.
Expect a thoughtful mix of styles, vintages, regions and formats — each pour offering a pleasant surprise and a reminder of how beautifully wine can evolve.
Wine Wednesday : Domaine La Calmette
This week’s Wine Wednesday flight explores three cuvées from Domaine La Calmette in the Cahors appellation of Southwestern France.
Known for their thoughtful, natural approach to winemaking, Domaine La Calmette produces expressive red wines rooted in place. This flight features three mostly Malbec-based wines that highlight the depth and character of Cahors—wines that are earthy, cozy, and deeply satisfying this time of year.
Wine Wednesday : Hungarian Wines
It’s back! We’re raising a glass to Furmint for our 4th annual Hungarian Wine Wednesday celebration — and it just might be our favorite one yet.
In partnership with Lone Wolf Wines, we’ll be pouring a thoughtful flight exploring the depth, texture, and terroir of Hungary’s signature grape: from crisp and mineral-driven to layered and complex, this lineup highlights just how compelling and expressive Furmint can be.
Egészségedre & à bientôt! 🍷
Wine Wednesday : Pink Bubbles Valentine’s Edition
This week’s Wine Wednesday is our annual Valentine’s Day edition, and we’re celebrating with pink bubbles.
We’re pouring a lineup of three sparkling rosés that we are currently crushing on—fresh, festive, and perfect for a midwinter toast. Expect lively fizz, pretty hues, and plenty of charm.
Bring a date, a friend, or just your love of bubbles!
Wine Wednesday : Clos du Tue Boeuf
We’re excited to share three wines from beloved natural wine producer Clos du Tue Bœuf.
Situated between Touraine and Cheverny in the Loire Valley, the centuries-old Clos du Tue Bœuf estate is run by vigneron brothers Jean-Marie and Thierry Puzelat. The brothers converted their vineyards to organic farming in 1996, and their work today is rooted in thoughtful, low-intervention viticulture and winemaking that honors the region’s diverse terroirs.
For the Puzelats, winemaking is about acting as a conduit between soil and glass—embracing the individuality of each parcel, the character of each vintage, and the climate that shaped it. The result is a collection of wines that are lively, expressive, and deeply charming.