Lambert de Seyssel Petit Royal Seyssel, FR Regular price $19.99 So here’s the thing…sparkling wines, whether Champagne, Prosecco, Cava, Cremant or Francocortia have a tendency to be consumed only special or unique occasions. The bubbly exuberance surely lends itself to celebrations, but why can’t Tuesday night be a celebration? Enter the Lambert de Seyssel Royal.[…]
2017 Envinate Benje Blanco Tenerife, Canary Islands Regular Price $27.99 Sale price $21.99 Made of 100% Listan Blanco (which, of course, no one has ever heard of) this is a rich and polished wine that illustrates the narrowness of our Chardonnay-centric worldview. Hay and almond aromas dominate and vie with gentle stone fruit flavors and[…]
2015 Domaine du Gour de Chaule Gigondas, FR Regular price $42.99 Sale Price $33.99 Once upon a time, no one paid attention to wines from the southern Rhone valley. The wines were much the same as they are now, but because the critics had not yet ‘discovered’ these wines, they were cheap and plentiful. Fast[…]
2017 Schneider Spatburgunder Feinherb Rosé Hahe, GR Regular Price $27.99 Sale price $21.99 This is a bright and fresh rosé from 100% Pinot Noir from Nahe, which is among the smallest growing areas in Germany. The estate has been in existence since the 16th century and is well recognized for their high quality wines. The[…]
2016 Mas Doix ‘Les Crestes’ Priorat, SP Regular price $29.99 Sale Price $23.99 Priorat is one of the great wine appellations of Spain, known for generous, full bodied wines with high alcohol levels and teeth staining levels of extraction. This wine is most of all that, and less.By that I mean that it’s big and[…]
So, as those of you that read my scribblings know, I’m a bit of a Luddite when it comes to wine. I really and truly feel that modern wines, largely due to the trend towards ripeness, are less interesting than wines that have their natural fruit flavors balanced by cleansing acidity and augmented by flavors[…]
2016 Domaine de Fondreche Ventoux Rhone Valley, FR Regular price $24.99 Sale Price $19.99 Have I not mentioned this wine? Damn…I’ve been remiss! So here’s the thing…historically, the southern Rhone valley didn’t make big, ripe, voluptuous wines; rather the wines were balanced with very attractive red berry flavors, herbal and savory notes and abundant acidity.[…]
Lake Chalice ‘Cracklin’ Savie’, NV Marlborough, NZ Regular Price $19.99 Sale price $15.99 This wine is just a whole lotta fun! Bright, grapefruit flavors jump from the glass, propelled by the CO2, followed by clean and zesty acidity, helped along by the bubbles. It’s both intense and wonderfully silly at the same time. Soligo Brut[…]
2014 Varvaglione ‘Papale’ Primitivo di Manduria Puglia, IT Regular price $24.99 Sale Price $19.99 This year, the perfect wine for St. Valentine’s day is a lush, full, ripe and alcoholic Zinfandel from Southern Italy. No..wait…that’s not the wine for Valentine’s Day, that’s the wine for a cold night in front of the fireplace. What? How[…]
2017 Istine Rosato Tuscany, IT Regular price: $15.99 It’s February, so drink rosé! Or in this case, rosato! Actually, many of the wine ‘rules’ will demand that you do not, under any circumstances drink this wine. And if you do, if you happen to find yourself in a venue where this is the only wine,[…]