November’s Box of Exploration
Wines for Thanksgiving
Six wines, six sensational producers, one holiday…explore, experience and enjoy the wines that you’ve perhaps wondered about…or revisit and reconnect with wines that you’re nearly forgotten.
$150.00 (inclusive of MD state alcohol sales tax)
Regular price $191.77
Jean-Paul Brun Beaujolais Rosé ‘Le Rosé d’Folie’ 2016
Regular price $18.99
Rosé is not just a summer wine, but a transitional wine that works well when the weather might be…changing. The Beaujolais Rosé is perfect for the Thanksgiving table because it’s bright and fresh. The fruit flavors will enliven the turkey, the lip-smacking acidity will refresh your tired palate.
St. Urbans-Hof Goldtröpfchen Piesport Riesling Kabinett 2015
Regular Price $24.99
Piesport is a village on the north bank of the Mosel and home to one of the most famous vineyards in the world, Goldtröpfchen Piesport. The slate-blue Devon slate soil is soft, light, and stony, ensuring good water supply, and is especially apt at absorbing the sunshine reflected by the Mosel River upon the steep south-facing slopes. This helps to produce an optimal climate for Riesling, giving “true” Piesporter wine a great finesse, a plethora of aromas, and a crisp and exotic finish. And so, great for Thanksgiving.
Domaine Weinbach Gewurztraminer ‘Réserve Personnelle’ 2015
Regular price $34.99
This beautiful Gewurztraminer is just off-dry, meaning that it has a touch of sweetness. It starts sweet with characteristic lychee nuts and rose aromas, but the rich fruit and herbal mouthful completed by a peppery and dry finish makes this a perfect wine for the collection of flavors on the table
Domaine Collotte Marsannay ‘Le Clos de Jeu’ 2014
Regular price $32.99
Pinot Noir from Burgundy offers bright berry, umani, and earthy flavors and aromas, and this is a classic example of those elements. Made of 50 year old vines, this wine shows bright, full fruit flavors with a taut tannic structure. Its drinking great right now and will hold up o all the flavors on your table.
Charles Joguet Chinon ‘Les Charmes’ 2013
Regular price $29.99
Charles Joguet has been a pioneer in Chinon. Over the course of his career, he took the risks necessary to champion single-vineyard bottling with an artistry that Chinon had never before seen. In so doing, he realized the true potential of the land. This wine of Cabernet Franc is rich and full but not heavy or ponderous. Supple and generous, its fresh berry is interwoven with characteristic green pepper and herbs. This is the wine for the turkey leg.
De Forville Barbaresco 2014
Regular price $33.99
This wine is quite traditional, exhibiting the finesse of the nebbiolo grape with its alluring aromas and flavors of truffle, earth, berries, rose, tar and leather and carrying, most important of all, a backbone of dusty tannins that give length and structure. Perhaps shy at first, after a quarter hour in the glass, an explosion of aromas beacons you forward. There’s no stopping now.