De Forville Chardonnay 2016 Regular price: $19.99 Sale Price: $15.99 Light, fresh and crisp, this is a delightfully unoaked Chardonnay that’s guaranteed to invigorate your tired palate and allow you to wonder anew about the beauty and versatility of Chardonnay. Brovia Roero Arneis 2017 Regular Price $32.99 Sale price $25.99 Arneis was all but[…]
2015 MARFIL Alella Pansa Blanca Barcelona, SP Regular Price $16.99 Sale Price $11.99 OK, class, today we talk about Pansa Blanca. Who can tell me about Pansa Blanca? Johnny? Susie? Ok, how about Xarel-lo? No one? Stevie? Anyone? They are the same grapes, people! Enough with the faux-classroom…yes, Pansa Blanca and Xarel-lo are the same[…]
There are, quite literally, hundreds of thousands of wines produced across the planet every year. Some small, really insignificant number of those are submitted to a panel of judges or a wine critic, who then offer opinions as to the quality of the wine, generally, as compared to other wines. There is no laboratory involved,[…]
Mirror, mirror Great wine is about nuance, surprise, subtlety, expression, qualities that keep you coming back for another taste. Rejecting a wine a wine because it is not big enough is like rejecting a book because it is not long enough, or a piece of music because it is not loud enough. – Kermit Lynch,[…]
2015 Stephane Aviron Chenas Vieille Vignes Beaujolais, FR Regular Price $23.99 Sale Price $18.99 Beaujolais gets a bad rap, man. It’s not enough that many assume that all wines from Beaujolais drink like Nouveau Beaujolais, the tutti-fruity, banana and berry scented wines released every November, but additionally, the assumption is that the wines are simple[…]
Domaine Servin Chablis Butteaux 1er Cru 2016 Regular price: $37.99 Sale Price: $29.99 This a classic example from one of the finest Premier Cru sites in Chablis. All stainless steel fermentation and aging of the fruit of 35 year old uncloned Chardonnay vines yields a rich and expressive wine that will likely age remarkably well.[…]
2016 Terenzi Vermentino di Maremma ‘Balbino’ Toscano, IT Regular Price $19.99 Sale Price $15.99 Vermentino is great fun, both to drink and to confuse your wine snob friends because, its: A; known by about 20 different names, and B; is easily confused with nearly every other white wine. Its crisp and clean with floral and[…]
I read an opinion piece this morning that was defending wine critics and writers by claiming that wine is too ‘mystical’ and ‘complex’ to be properly understood except by those that study and truly venerate wine. I couldn’t disagree with that contention more. Yes, wine is complicated, and the more one learns about wine, the[…]
One of the ongoing conversations here in the shop among customers is restaurants’ wine pricing. Specifically, if $30 buys you a great bottle of wine retail (and it should!) then why do restaurants charge $60-70 for the same wine? The simple answer is that they are gouging the consumer, but, really that’s only part of[…]