Ameztoi Rubentis, Txakolina 2017 Regular Price $22.99 Sale price $17.99 The pink sibling of Ameztoi’s flagship white, this vibrant rosé is made from a mix of red and white indigenous grapes and is bottled with a little residual carbonation to give it a light spritz. Pierre Morin ‘Vieilles Vignes’, Sancerre 2016 Regular Price $29.99 Sale[…]
Wine is many things to many different people. To some, it’s nothing but a lowly intoxicant; others view it as a symbol of the cultural elite. It can be sour or sweet, cheap or expensive, simple or complex. Its remarkably easy to make and incredibly difficult to master. There exists no verifiable standard of measure[…]
2016 Pierre-Marie Chermette Moulin a Vent Cru Beaujolais ‘Les Trois Roches’ Regular Price $32.99 Sale Price $25.99 Some wines are meant to pondered over. They are complex and coy, revealing aromas and flavors over a period of time, changing in the glass and the bottle as it empties. Other wines are all about instant gratification.[…]
Wine is one of the most imprecise and amorphic consumer goods ever produced; its flavor, quality, relative body, and best use are all subject to a myriad of opinions, most of which are profoundly speculative, if not downright disingenuous. Alleged experts can’t agree upon, really, anything. So what’s the value conscious consumer to do? First[…]
Domaine des Cassagnoles, Côtes de Gascogne 2016 Regular Price $10.99 Sale price $8.79 This crisp and bright blend of Gros Manseng, Sauvignon Blanc, Colombard and Ugni Blanc over-delivers. Tangy citrus flavors and mouth watering acidity (along with a screw cap) makes this a perfect poolside quaffer Château de La Greffière ‘Mâcon la Roche Vineuse’ Vieille[…]
2013 San Giusto a Rentennano Chianti Classico DOCG Regular Price $43.99 Sale Price $34.99 Nearly everyone knows Chianti…there’s quite literally an ocean of it bottled annually (about 8 million cases). The term itself refers to a geographic region, in central Tuscany, roughly situated between Florence and Siena. The earliest documentation of a “Chianti wine” dates[…]
Broadbent Vinho Verde DOC 2017 Regular Price $11.99 Sale price $8.99 The national beverage of Portugal, this is the wine to drink all Spring & Summer. Spritzy and bright, this wine emphasizes the lemon-lime flavors of trajadura over the melon richness of loureiro. Tartly refreshing, low in alcohol and inexpensive, you should always have a[…]
One of the buzzwords that wine poseurs (critics, radio hosts, newspaper columnists, fake restaurant sommeliers and your brother-in-law) use to confuse the wine public is ‘complexity’. ‘Complexity’ in wine may or may not be a positive attribute (that is entirely dependent upon your personal likes and dislikes) but it’s nowhere nearly as ubiquitous (or necessary)[…]
2016 Jean Paul Brun ‘Le Rose d’Folie’ Beaujolais Rose Regular Price $19.99 Sale Price $15.99 Let’s be clear…neither the calendar nor the thermometer is a factor in my selecting this as my favorite wine this week. The is my favorite wine because it’s friggin’ delicious! This wine is 100% Gamay, but unlike the eponymous Beaujolais[…]
Wicked Weed ‘Garcon de Ferme’ Brett Farmhouse Ale with Peaches Regular Price $12.99 Sale price $11.59 Garçon de Ferme is a Foeder-Rested, Brettanomyces farmhouse Ale. After fermentation, this pleasantly tart ale is blended back onto over a pound and a half per gallon of fresh, whole peaches to reflect and echo that the craft of[…]