Posts tagged Staff Picks
K&L's Best-Selling Wines of 2026: The Summer Edit
K&L's Best-Selling Wines of 2026: The Summer Edit

What do K&L customers actually drink? This is it. The twenty wines that outsold everything else in the first half of 2026 — from a $9.99 Vinho Verde to a 2006 Santa Cruz Mountains library Cabernet — ranked by bottles sold, with no scores and no spin. Alongside them: ten July staff picks including the second wine of Sassicaia and a $17.99 Crémant that drinks well above its price, plus eight summer whites and rosés every one under $35. Fifty years in, this is still the best list we publish.

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Wine NewsletterOn the TrailK&L Wine MerchantsBest Sellers, Summer Wine, Top 20, Staff Picks, White Wine, Rosé, Si, Summer White Wine, Vinho Verde, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Crémant, Champagne, Chablis, Albariño, Riesling, Anonymous Wine Collective, K&L Discovery Series, Direct Import, Wine Club, Sassicaia, WeatherEye Vineyard, Sonoma Coast, Napa Valley, Santa Cruz Mountains, Willamette Valley, Martinborough, Coteaux d'Aix en Provence
Fallet-Dart: A Grower Making Champagne Since 1610
Fallet-Dart: A Grower Making Champagne Since 1610

Growers Since 1610. Three New Bottles Worth Finding.

The Fallet family has been farming Charly-sur-Marne since 1610. Scott Beckerley reviews their three newest releases — including a Pur Meunier that makes the case for why this grape deserves your attention.

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ChampagneScott BeckerleyK&L Wine MerchantsChampagne, Grower Champagne, Fallet-Dart, Pinot Meunier, Marne Valley, Charly-sur-Marne, Blanc de Blancs, Extra Brut, France, Sparkling Wine, Tasting Notes, Staff Picks, Scott Beckerley
A Spirits Guy's Guide to Champagne: 3 Bottles Worth Knowing Now
A Spirits Guy's Guide to Champagne: 3 Bottles Worth Knowing Now

4 Champagnes That Surprised Our Culver City Spirits Guy

Jonathan Parnell spends most of his time in whisky. But after learning from K&L's Champagne buyers, he has opinions—and three bottles to back them up. From a our $44.99 house Champagne to a Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs that held its own against Cristal.

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ChampagneOn the TrailK&L Wine MerchantsChampagne, Blanc de Blancs, Rosé, Taittinger, Launois, A.D. Coutelas, Maison 76, Staff Picks, Tasting Notes, WIne Club, France
Olivier Krug Visits K&L: What We Learned from Six Generations of Champagne's Greatest House
Olivier Krug Visits K&L: What We Learned from Six Generations of Champagne's Greatest House

Olivier Krug—sixth generation, Director of Maison Krug—visited our Culver City store for a masterclass on the world's most meticulous Champagne. We tasted the 173rd Edition Grande Cuvée and the 28th Edition Rosé. Notes were taken. Opinions were formed.

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ChampagnePhilip RoufailK&L Wine MerchantsChampagne, Krug, Grande Cuvée, Grower Champagne, Maison Krug, Olivier Krug, Non-Vintage Champagne, Prestige Cuvée, France, Sparkling Wine, Staff Picks, Tasting Notes