2014 Marcel Couturier ‘Le Bourg’ Pouilly-Loché, FR Regular price $31.99 Sale Price $25.99 Under the category of ‘that’s why you can’t have nice things’, I offer you California Chardonnay. I’m mostly kidding, of course. But Chardonnay didn’t have a lousy reputation until nearly every winery in California started making it by allowing their grapes to[…]
2014 Colutta Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso Friuli Colli Orientali, IT Regular price $21.99 Sale Price $17.99 So, here’s the thing…wine consumers (and critics) tend to think that the grapes that we know and hear the most about are the same grapes that have been around the longest and have proven themselves over generations. The reality[…]
2017 Pacalet & Lapierre ‘Cousins’ Julienas Beaujolais, FR Regular price $34.99 Sale Price $27.99 By and large, the ‘Napa’ crowd still thinks that Beaujolais is the wine that is released once per year around Thanksgiving. That wine, dear friends, is Nouveau Beaujolais, and while it certainly has its place, its not at all like Cru[…]
2016 Duc des Nauves Cotes des Bordeaux, FR Regular price $28.99 Sale Price $22.99 Those of you that read this space regularly know that I am not particularly wowed by wines from Bordeaux. I mean, sure, the wines are fine, and often very good, but just as often, pretty expensive and uninspiring. And frankly, many[…]
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[…]
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[…]
2005 Domaine Daniel-Etienne Defaix Chablis Premier Cru Vaillon Chablis, FR Regular price $57.99 Sale Price $45.99 To some, Chablis is a white wine in a box. To others, Chablis is a region at the northern end of Burgundy, where Chardonnay is grown and made into wines that are of a style all its own. And[…]
2013 Domaine de Terrebrune Bandol, FR Regular price $39.99 Sale Price $31.99 It’s going to get seriously cold this week, so you’ll want a wine with density, depth and structure to keep you warm. Sounds like the description of a Bandol to me. Which is a bit counter-intuitive, if you think about it. Bandol is[…]
2016 Von Winning Estate Riesling Trocken Pfalz, Germany Regular price $24.99 Sale Price $19.99 Here’s the thing that people don’t really understand…Riesling is very rare in that it makes beautiful wines at every point along the continuum of dry to sweet. I’ll argue that no other grape is as versatile, and continually delicious, as Riesling.[…]
2015 Château le Puy Emilien Francs Côtes de Bordeaux Regular price $59.99 Sale Price $45.99 There are only handful of truly great wines in the world; and most of them are nearly impossible to find. It’s not because of their expense or the minuscule amount that is produced (although those are factors, for sure), but[…]