2016 Plateau des Chênes Lirac Rouge On sale for $17.99 per bottle The red wines of the Southern Rhone Valley regularly demonstrate and celebrate their sunny, warm origins proudly and more often than not, successfully. These accessible wines are so pliant and generous that it is easy to take their great value and friendly nature[…]
2019 Giovanni Almondo‘Bricco della Ciliegie’Roero ArneisRegular price: $27.99 per BottleSale Price:$21.99 I recently noticed that the 35th anniversary edition of Kevin Zraly’s famous book, the ‘Windows of the World Complete Wine Course’ was released. I’m old enough to remember the initial edition, in which Zraly stated, with confidence, while lacking accuracy, that there were no Italian[…]
2019 Arterberry MareshDundee Hills ChardonnayDundee, OR$24.99 per Bottle$239.88 per case ($19.99 per btl) Every now and then, a wine shows up that surprises us. American Chardonnay is easily both the most acclaimed and vilified wine in the market. Awash with tropical fruit, touched by sweetly vanilla oak, a creamy and buttery texture, ripe and full,[…]
2009 Pol Roger Brut Vintage Regular Price: $119.99 On Sale for $79.99 A Rare Champagne of Style and Substance: 2009 Pol Roger Brut Champagne represents a category of wine produced from difficult conditions. The region is relatively cold and experiences more than its fair share of clouds and rain. The vast majority of Champagne is[…]
2016 Chateau La Rame Cadillac Bordeaux Rouge “La Charmille” Regular $32.99 French Paradox $24.99 At first glance, Bordeaux seems like a simple region to understand: the varietals are pre-determined (Merlot, the Cabernets, Petit Verdot, Malbec); the communes and soil types therein are well-understood (Merlot likes clay, Cabernet Sauvignon favors gravel); and the producers of merit[…]
La Manarine Cotes du Rhone RoseRegular price $18.99 Sale Price $14.99 Rosé is so in vogue at the moment that even those guys that refuse to touch a white wine (because, you know, white wines aren’t manly) are drinking Rosé. I guess they think it gives them street creed. Its pretty funny watching them contort and try[…]
2017 Bisson ‘U Pastine’ Bianchetta Genovese Portofino DOC Regular price $27.99 Sale Price $22.99 Most wine ‘experts’ (the ones that speak on the radio and write in the newspaper) can name perhaps a few different dozen grape varietals. That’s really very good, considering that most are not nor have ever been in the wine business[…]
2015 vincent girardin bourgogne rouge cuvee saint vincent Regular price $29.99 Sale Price $23.99 It’s a thankless task, selecting the wine for Easter dinner. Cousin Bob thinks California Cabs are the bomb (they get him bombed, that is), Grandpa Max still believes that wine is for ‘the ladies’, and Uncle Sal and his date brought[…]
2016 K. Descombes Morgon Vieille Vignes Beaujolais, FR Regular price $29.99 Sale Price $24.99 Ok, it’s finally spring…but that doesn’t mean that every day will be balmy and beautiful. We’ll get our usual cold and rainy April weather, while being teased by blue skies and enticing by warm breezes. Now, if the seasons influence your[…]
2013 Domaine les Bastides Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence, FR Regular price $27.99 Sale Price $21.99 Its nice that American wine drinkers have finally embraced Rosé. No, really, I mean it. Especially Provence Rosé. I mean, here’s a region that been making wines for at least 2500 years, and finally, in the last 5 years or so, we’ve[…]