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87/100 · Elite · $370 · Arrowine & Cheese, Champagne — One of the most compelling grower Champagnes in existence, and the price, while steep, is genuinely hard to argue with given what's in the bottle.

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84/100 · Elite · $90 · Arrowine & Cheese, Italy — One of the most compelling buys in this batch despite the $90 price — Terre Nere's Calderara Sottana is a genuine single-vineyard grand cru on Mount Etna's volcanic basalt soils, and there is no realistic lower-priced substitute for this terroir.

https://arrowine.com/products/blandys-10-year-old-bual-madeira-750ml 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

82/100 · Elite · $65 · Arrowine & Cheese, Portugal — A serious buy for anyone who wants to explore one of the world's most distinctive wine styles at a fair price.

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82/100 · Elite · $330 · Arrowine & Cheese, Champagne — A truly exceptional bottle — and arguably the more intellectually interesting of the two Tarlants at this price.

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80/100 · Elite · $95 · Arrowine & Cheese, Champagne — One of the most exciting grower Champagnes available at this price — Emmanuel Lassaigne is a cult figure for a reason, and this wine justifies the hype.

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79/100 · Elite · $450 · Arrowine & Cheese — One of the genuinely irreplaceable bottles in this batch, and the price is easy to justify.

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78/100 · Elite · $30 · Arrowine & Cheese, Spain — A standout value — estate-grown Mencía from a top Bierzo producer at a price that still carries no prestige premium.

https://arrowine.com/products/weingut-spreitzer-rheingau-oestricher-lenchen-riesling-kabinett-2022 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

78/100 · Elite · $30 · Arrowine & Cheese, Germany — A textbook argument for why German Kabinett is one of wine's great under-appreciated formats — and this one comes from a documented, serious site.

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77/100 · Elite · $35 · Arrowine & Cheese, California — Buy this immediately — it's one of the most distinctive value wines on the list.

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77/100 · Elite · $40 · Arrowine & Cheese, Spain — One of the best value buys in the shop, full stop.

https://arrowine.com/products/vietti-barolo-monvigliero-2020 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

77/100 · Elite · $260 · Arrowine & Cheese, Barolo — The most compelling of the three Vietti Barolos at this price, and the one I'd buy first.

https://arrowine.com/products/les-foulards-rouges-la-soif-du-mal-2021 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

75/100 · Elite · $40 · Arrowine & Cheese, France — A serious buy for the adventurous drinker who wants Grenache that tastes like it came from somewhere specific.

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75/100 · Elite · $35 · Arrowine & Cheese, Beaujolais — One of the best buys in this batch.

https://arrowine.com/products/champagne-roses-de-jeanne-les-ursules-blanc-de-noirs-2020 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

75/100 · Elite · $400 · Arrowine & Cheese, Champagne — One of the most compelling grower Champagnes made today, though you are paying for it — this is a specialist purchase, not an everyday splurge.

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75/100 · Elite · $19 · Arrowine & Cheese, France — A genuinely interesting rosé and one of the stronger buys in this batch.

https://arrowine.com/products/vietti-barolo-cerequio-2020 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

75/100 · Elite · $260 · Arrowine & Cheese, Barolo — A serious buy for anyone building a cellar.

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75/100 · Elite · $200 · Arrowine & Cheese, Champagne — 100% Pinot Meunier single-vineyard Champagne from a 2006 vintage is an exceptionally rare thing — Meunier is almost never treated as a prestige variety, let alone isolated in a single-vineyard bottling with this kind of age.

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75/100 · Elite · $230 · Arrowine & Cheese, Champagne — A genuinely compelling buy if you can stomach the price — Cédric Bouchard is one of the most serious grower-Champagne producers alive, making single-vineyard, single-variety, single-year wines from the Côte des Bar with zero dosage and a relentless focus on terroir.

https://arrowine.com/products/tenuta-delle-terre-nere-etna-rosso-san-lorenzo-2022 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

74/100 · Elite · $90 · Arrowine & Cheese, Italy — The calibration anchor for this framework at this price, and it earns that status.

https://arrowine.com/products/domaine-clape-saint-peray-blanc-2022 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

74/100 · Elite · $100 · Arrowine & Cheese, France — A genuine buy for anyone who loves serious Northern Rhône whites — Clape is one of the benchmark estates of the appellation, and this vintage now includes a parcel of 70-year-old Marsanne that meaningfully lifts the wine.

https://arrowine.com/products/tempier-bandol-la-tourtine-2023 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

74/100 · Elite · $110 · Arrowine & Cheese, bandol — One of the most singular red wines in France at any price, and the price here is as good as you'll find it.

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74/100 · Elite · $370 · Arrowine & Cheese, Champagne — One of the most distinctive grower Champagnes in the world, and the price — while steep — is genuinely hard to argue with given what's in the bottle.

https://arrowine.com/products/vietti-barolo-lazzarito-2018 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

74/100 · Elite · $260 · Arrowine & Cheese, Barolo — The more structured, austere sibling to the Cerequio — and a compelling buy for a patient cellar.

https://arrowine.com/products/champagne-roses-de-jeanne-les-ursules-blanc-de-noirs-2021 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

74/100 · Elite · $400 · Arrowine & Cheese, Champagne — One of the most compelling arguments for $400 Champagne you'll find.

https://www.thewinecabinet.com/products/14524532/venus-la-universal-dido-2021 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

73/100 · Elite · $30 · The Wine Cabinet — A genuine standout at $30 — Venus La Universal is one of Montsant's benchmark producers, and Dido is their serious entry-level blend built on granite soils with a clear terroir philosophy.

https://www.thewinecabinet.com/products/14523934/adami-vigneto-giardino-2023 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

73/100 · Elite · $28 · The Wine Cabinet, Italy , Veneto — Adami's Vigneto Giardino is one of Prosecco Superiore's benchmark single-vineyard Conegliano Valdobbiadene cuvées — a genuinely different animal from the generic Prosecco category.

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73/100 · Elite · $80 · Arrowine & Cheese, Champagne — A genuine grower Champagne worth buying despite the price.

https://arrowine.com/products/torbreck-hillside-vineyard-grenache-2021 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

73/100 · Elite · $90 · Arrowine & Cheese, Australia — A serious buy for old-vine Barossa Grenache at the single-vineyard level — this is the kind of bottle that justifies the $90 price tag.

https://arrowine.com/products/pieve-santa-restituta-brunello-2020 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

73/100 · Elite · $150 · Arrowine & Cheese, Brunello — A serious buy for anyone who wants genuine Brunello at this price point.

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73/100 · Elite · $18 · Arrowine & Cheese, France — A strong buy at this price and an easy recommendation for anyone willing to look past the familiar.

https://www.thewinecabinet.com/products/14677478/taylor-fladgate-vintage-port-2003 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

73/100 · Elite · $150 · The Wine Cabinet — A serious, age-worthy Vintage Port from one of the great names in the Douro — the 2003 was a legendary, scorching vintage that produced concentrated, powerful wines with decades of runway, and Taylor Fladgate is among the handful of shippers who still farm and declare at the highest level.

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72/100 · Elite · $53 · Arrowine & Cheese, Spain — One of the strongest buys in this batch — a serious, Atlantic-style Rioja Reserva from a genuine estate at a price that still leaves room.

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72/100 · Elite · $33 · Arrowine & Cheese, California — A standout value Chardonnay from one of California's most exciting coastal AVAs.

https://arrowine.com/products/domaine-serol-cote-roannaise-les-blondins-2023 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

72/100 · Elite · $32 · Arrowine & Cheese, France — A genuine standout at this price — Côte Roannaise Gamay on volcanic granite is one of the Loire's best-kept secrets.

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72/100 · Elite · $30 · The Wine Cabinet — A strong buy at $30 — this is exactly the kind of wine the framework is built to find.

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72/100 · Elite · $100 · Arrowine & Cheese, Champagne — One of the best grower Champagnes available under $100 — buy it without hesitation if you're in the market for serious bubbles.

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72/100 · Elite · $27 · Arrowine & Cheese, Cotes du Rhone — A strong buy — this is a declassified Syrah from a Cornas-native grower whose family vines include 100-year-old stock inherited from his grandfather, and who also farms parcels rented from Robert Michel, one of Cornas's legendary old-school vignerons.

https://www.thewinecabinet.com/products/14721794/friedrich-wilhelm-gymnasium-schiefer-mosel-riesling-2018 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

72/100 · Elite · $24 · The Wine Cabinet — A strong buy — Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium is one of the Mosel's historic estates, and "Schiefer" literally means slate, the blue-grey Devonian slate that gives Mosel Riesling its electric tension and mineral backbone.

https://www.thewinecabinet.com/products/14524262/vietti-barolo-2021 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

72/100 · Elite · $80 · The Wine Cabinet — A very strong buy for a lover of serious Barolo — Vietti is among the handful of Langhe producers that genuinely define the appellation, and this village-level Barolo (a blend across their Castiglione Falletto and Langa holdings) represents their winemaking philosophy at an accessible entry point.

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72/100 · Elite · $40 · Arrowine & Cheese, France — A strong buy for anyone who takes rosé seriously as a food wine rather than a summer sipper.

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72/100 · Elite · $170 · Arrowine & Cheese, Barolo — A serious buy for the Barolo collector.

https://arrowine.com/products/fontodi-flaccianello-della-pieve-2018 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

72/100 · Elite · $230 · Arrowine & Cheese, Chianti — A serious buy for anyone who wants top-tier Tuscan Sangiovese outside the Brunello price bracket.

https://arrowine.com/products/stephane-tissot-patchwork-chardonnay-2023 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

71/100 · Elite · $50 · Arrowine & Cheese, France — One of the most interesting Chardonnays available at this price — a strong buy for anyone who finds white Burgundy compelling but blanches at the price.

https://arrowine.com/products/yann-bertrand-oh-2023 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

71/100 · Elite · $40 · Arrowine & Cheese, Beaujolais — One of the better value Beaujolais buys in the shop — old-vine Fleurie Gamay made with zero sulfur by someone trained directly by Yvon Métras, the region's most revered natural-wine grower.

https://arrowine.com/products/tempier-bandol-la-migoua-2023 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

71/100 · Elite · $110 · Arrowine & Cheese, bandol — A genuinely exciting Bandol single-vineyard rosé — sorry, red — from one of the most legendary estates in southern France, but the 2023 vintage at $110 is a steep ask for a wine that really needs time.

https://arrowine.com/products/domaine-du-pas-saint-martin-jurassique-saumur-2022 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

71/100 · Elite · $35 · Arrowine & Cheese, France — A genuinely compelling buy — one of the better Chenin Blancs at this price in the market.

https://arrowine.com/products/champagne-michel-turgy-grand-cru-blanc-de-blancs-brut-reserve-selection 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

71/100 · Elite · $60 · Arrowine & Cheese, Champagne — A serious grower Champagne from one of the Côte des Blancs' quieter but most credible families, and a genuine buy at $60 for what it delivers.

https://www.thewinecabinet.com/products/14573657/weingut-proidl-senftenberg-riesling-alte-reben-2023 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

71/100 · Elite · $38 · The Wine Cabinet — A serious buy — Weingut Proidl is a benchmark producer in Kremstal, and the Senftenberg is one of the most respected single-village sites in the appellation, planted on primary rock and gneiss soils that give Austrian Riesling its characteristic mineral spine.

https://arrowine.com/products/francois-chidaine-montlouis-tradition-brut-2020 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

71/100 · Elite · $32 · Arrowine & Cheese, France — A genuinely exciting sparkling Chenin at a price that's hard to argue with.

https://arrowine.com/products/bodegas-epifanio-rivera-erial-2023 2026-06-15T02:37:57Z

71/100 · Elite · $22 · Arrowine & Cheese, Spain — Strong value from a family producer with genuine roots in Pesquera de Duero — the epicenter of serious Ribera del Duero — and documented old vines between 30 and 60 years.