Some records deserve a glass.
We pair albums with wine by matching sonic energy with body, acidity, tannin, sweetness, and finish. Intelligent, premium, culturally playful.
Describe the vibe. The Sommelier will curate three.
Fifty pairings and counting
Album
Mezzanine
Massive Attack
Wine
Napa Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley, California
"Deep bass, shadow, tension, and structure match the wine's dark fruit and uncompromising weight."
Tasting note
Nose: cassis, graphite, wet slate. Palate: dense black fruit wrapped in tobacco and iron. Finish: long, brooding, unresolved.
Read the pairing →
Album
Love Deluxe
Sade
Wine
Burgundy Pinot Noir
Côte de Nuits, France
"Elegant, sensual, restrained, and emotionally smooth."
Tasting note
Nose: rose petal, wild strawberry, forest floor. Palate: silk and quiet muscle. Finish: lingers like a held glance.
Read the pairing →
Album
Purple Rain
Prince
Wine
Vintage Champagne
Reims, France
"Glamour, drama, sparkle, and celebration."
Tasting note
Nose: toasted brioche, lemon oil, hazelnut. Palate: fine mousse, chalk, stage-lit citrus. Finish: bright, imperious, encore-ready.
Read the pairing →
Album
Kind of Blue
Miles Davis
Wine
White Burgundy
Puligny-Montrachet, France
"Cool, balanced, classic, restrained, and endlessly layered."
Tasting note
Nose: white flowers, oyster shell, cool butter. Palate: taut, mineral, unhurried. Finish: dry, luminous, spacious as a rest.
Read the pairing →
Album
Nevermind
Nirvana
Wine
Northern Rhône Syrah
Côte-Rôtie, France
"Grit, smoke, youth, and electric force."
Tasting note
Nose: black pepper, smoked bacon, violet. Palate: wild, sinewy, snarling with iron. Finish: raw, defiant, singed at the edges.
Read the pairing →
Album
Renaissance
Beyoncé
Wine
Grower Champagne
Aÿ, France
"Dance-floor energy, luxury, rhythm, and liberation."
Tasting note
Nose: pink grapefruit, sourdough crust, warm chalk. Palate: relentless bubbles, saline drive. Finish: euphoric, mirror-ball long.
Read the pairing →
Album
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
Wine
Chianti Classico
Tuscany, Italy
"Soul, acidity, truth, earth, and emotional structure."
Tasting note
Nose: sour cherry, dried herbs, terracotta. Palate: bright acid, dusty tannin, honest fruit. Finish: warm, grounded, unafraid.
Read the pairing →
Album
Discovery
Daft Punk
Wine
German Riesling
Mosel, Germany
"Bright, electric, precise, and euphoric."
Tasting note
Nose: green apple, lime blossom, wet slate. Palate: featherweight sweetness on a live-wire spine. Finish: crystalline, dancing, endless.
Read the pairing →
Album
In Rainbows
Radiohead
Wine
Friulian Orange Wine
Friuli, Italy
"Textured, cerebral, strange, beautiful, and intimate."
Tasting note
Nose: dried apricot, chamomile, orange peel. Palate: skin-contact grip, honeyed and strange. Finish: cerebral, textured, quietly haunting.
Read the pairing →
Album
Voodoo
D'Angelo
Wine
Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Rhône, France
"Deep groove, warmth, body, and sensuality."
Tasting note
Nose: garrigue, black cherry, warm leather. Palate: plush, sun-baked, deeply grooved. Finish: slow, sensual, southern.
Read the pairing →
Album
Illmatic
Nas
Wine
Barolo
Piedmont, Italy
"Young genius, tannic patience, tar and roses over concrete."
Tasting note
Nose: tar, dried rose, licorice. Palate: austere, chiseled, uncompromising tannin. Finish: cold marble, no wasted syllable.
Read the pairing →
Album
Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
Wine
Lambrusco Secco
Emilia-Romagna, Italy
"Fizz through fog. Sweet noise, dry fruit, everything blurred."
Tasting note
Nose: crushed blackberry, violet, wet stone. Palate: frothy, tart, distorted with joy. Finish: pink foam, dissolving into static.
Read the pairing →
Album
The Chronic
Dr. Dre
Wine
Old-Vine Zinfandel
Lodi, California
"West Coast heat. Ripe, warm, a little smoked, entirely unbothered."
Tasting note
Nose: bramble jam, black pepper, sun-warmed asphalt. Palate: jammy, boozy, unrepentant. Finish: swaggering, low-riding, west-coast long.
Read the pairing →
Album
Blue
Joni Mitchell
Wine
Vin Jaune
Jura, France
"Solitude in a glass. Oxidative, unflinching, impossibly honest."
Tasting note
Nose: walnut, curry leaf, dried apple. Palate: oxidative, salty, achingly personal. Finish: bittersweet, confessional, unmistakable.
Read the pairing →
Album
Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz & João Gilberto
Wine
Vinho Verde
Minho, Portugal
"Barefoot music, barefoot wine. A breeze from the coast either way."
Tasting note
Nose: sea spray, lime pith, white peach. Palate: whisper-light spritz, cool and clean. Finish: barefoot, breezy, unbothered.
Read the pairing →
Album
To Pimp a Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
Wine
Amontillado Sherry
Jerez, Spain
"Complex, wounded, brilliant, unafraid of the bitter finish."
Tasting note
Nose: roasted almond, orange rind, brine. Palate: dry, layered, unnervingly deep. Finish: prophetic, umami, built for the long conversation.
Read the pairing →
Album
OK Computer
Radiohead
Wine
Etna Rosso
Sicily, Italy
"Cold volcanic anxiety. Beautiful, red, faintly smoking."
Tasting note
Nose: red cherry, volcanic ash, blood orange. Palate: nervy acid, ashen minerality, quiet dread. Finish: haunted, elegant, alarm-clock clear.
Read the pairing →
Album
Songs in the Key of Life
Stevie Wonder
Wine
Demi-Sec Vouvray
Loire Valley, France
"Joy with a wet stone underneath. Honey that never tips into sugar."
Tasting note
Nose: honeycomb, quince, wet wool. Palate: honeyed but taut, generous and wise. Finish: golden, forgiving, wide as gospel.
Read the pairing →
Album
Remain in Light
Talking Heads
Wine
Smaragd Grüner Veltliner
Wachau, Austria
"Polyrhythm meets white pepper. Nervous, green, alive."
Tasting note
Nose: white pepper, snap pea, lentil. Palate: nervy, rhythmic, textured with tension. Finish: dry, twitchy, cerebral.
Read the pairing →
Album
Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
Wine
Txakoli
Basque Country, Spain
"Salt-air melancholy. Poured from a height, meant to be shared."
Tasting note
Nose: green apple, sea salt, blossom. Palate: prickly spritz, saline, quietly aching. Finish: young, luminous, tender.
Read the pairing →
Album
Endtroducing…
DJ Shadow
Wine
10-Year Malmsey Madeira
Madeira, Portugal
"A record built from other records; a wine built from other centuries."
Tasting note
Nose: burnt caramel, dried fig, tobacco. Palate: molasses-thick, oxidized, sample-crackle warm. Finish: dusty, nostalgic, unhurried.
Read the pairing →
Album
Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
Wine
Aged Barbaresco
Piedmont, Italy
"Free improvisation, tannic patience, smoke over rose."
Tasting note
Nose: dried rose, truffle, tar. Palate: coiled, murky, refusing symmetry. Finish: brooding, improvisational, endlessly reopening.
Read the pairing →
Album
Back to Black
Amy Winehouse
Wine
Sercial Madeira
Madeira, Portugal
"Dry, sharp, salty grief. A voice that will not sweeten."
Tasting note
Nose: salted almond, lemon oil, iodine. Palate: bone-dry, oxidative, edged in ache. Finish: bitter chocolate, smudged mascara long.
Read the pairing →
Album
Abbey Road
The Beatles
Wine
English Sparkling Wine
Sussex, England
"Homecoming. Chalk, apple, and a medley that resolves."
Tasting note
Nose: green apple, elderflower, buttered toast. Palate: chalky, precise, gently exuberant. Finish: crisp, orderly, quietly triumphant.
Read the pairing →
Album
Graceland
Paul Simon
Wine
Old-Vine Cinsault
Swartland, South Africa
"Two continents in one glass. Bright, red, buoyant, unmistakably itself."
Tasting note
Nose: red currant, dried herb, dusty earth. Palate: light-footed, spry, sunlit. Finish: joyful, rhythmic, endlessly repeatable.
Read the pairing →
Album
Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
Wine
Alto Adige Lagrein
Alto Adige, Italy
"Highway cinema. Dark fruit, gasoline flowers, a saxophone hook."
Tasting note
Nose: blackberry, iron, wild sage. Palate: muscular, alpine, honest. Finish: open highway long, headlights on.
Read the pairing →
Album
Disintegration
The Cure
Wine
Piedirosso
Vesuvius, Italy
"Volcanic ache. Blue-black fruit, cool tannins, a long grey finish."
Tasting note
Nose: black cherry, volcanic soil, dried violet. Palate: cool-blooded, low tannin, moody minerality. Finish: overcast, rain-slick, lovelorn.
Read the pairing →
Album
Random Access Memories
Daft Punk
Wine
Manzanilla en Rama
Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain
"Studio disco, salt air, a mirrored ball inside a bodega."
Tasting note
Nose: sea foam, green almond, chamomile. Palate: bracingly dry, saline, retro-futurist. Finish: cool, chrome, endlessly loopable.
Read the pairing →
Album
For Emma, Forever Ago
Bon Iver
Wine
Clairette de Die
Rhône, France
"Cabin quiet, low-alcohol shimmer, the sweetness of surviving winter."
Tasting note
Nose: pear blossom, muscat grape, snowmelt. Palate: barely sweet, feather-light fizz. Finish: fragile, honest, breath-held.
Read the pairing →
Album
Thriller
Michael Jackson
Wine
Rosé Champagne
Épernay, France
"The biggest record ever made. Pour something equally unembarrassed."
Tasting note
Nose: red berry, brioche, pink pepper. Palate: fine mousse, taut acid, showtime confidence. Finish: dry, dramatic, mirror-lit long.
Read the pairing →