Brad Steven Selections
Curated organic wines from family-run estates in France, Italy, Spain, and beyond.
BRAD STEVEN
I've spent 22 years in restaurants and wine, with countless trips to Europe to visit producers, mostly in France and Italy. Every wine I import comes from a cellar I've stood in. The producers are small, mostly organic, chosen because the wine tastes like where it's from.
Piedmont
Piedmont sits in the foothills of the Alps, where the autumn fog called nebbia gives Nebbiolo its name and slowly ripens it into Barolo and Barbaresco. Barbera and Dolcetto are the workhorse reds, the wines families drink with weekday lunches. The growers tend to be small, multi-generational, and quietly stubborn about how things have always been done.
Burgundy
Burgundy is two main grapes, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, divided across hundreds of named vineyards along a thirty-mile strip of limestone hillside called the Côte d'Or. The Burgundians call these climats, and the system is specific enough that two rows side by side can taste different and sell at different prices. Further south in the Mâconnais, the same Chardonnay grows on warmer slopes for a fraction of the price.
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