Duckhorn — Napa's founding Merlot specialist since 1976. Same polished house style, now poured into Cabernet.

Two Squared — Alpha Omega's more approachable Napa Cabernet, made by the same Jean Hoefliger and Michel Rolland pairing, built to drink the day you open it.

Belle Glos — Joseph Wagner's (yes, that Caymus family) single-vineyard Pinot Noir project. Clark & Telephone is the bold, dark-fruited one.

Les Vins de la Madone — an organic estate farmed at 600 meters in the Urfé, well outside Beaujolais proper, and a rare high-altitude Gamay because of it.

DeLoach — Biodynamic-certified Russian River estate, and OFS is their old-vine Zinfandel flagship. 'Our Founder's Selection' means they mean it.

Jelu — a New Zealand winemaker chasing Malbec in Argentina's Zonda Valley, where the temperature swings 50 degrees in a single day. That's where this color comes from.

Château Pilet — an Entre-Deux-Mers family estate proving Bordeaux Blanc doesn't have to be expensive to be citrusy and precise.