2006 Domaine Albert Boillot ‘Les Petits Poisots’ Volnay Regular Price $54.99 Sale Price $43.99 Its difficult to navigate Burgundy for even the experienced wine buyer. First of all, there are 100 appellations. Then, there are four levels – regional, communal (or village), premier cru and grand cru. For each progressive level, yields are getting lower[…]
2017 Lapierre Morgon Cru Beaujolais Regular Price $37.99 Sale Price $29.99 Do you remember Popeye? Popeye the Sailor Man? He was a cartoon figure from the 1930’s into the 70’s, who famously had one eye, smoked a pipe, had enormous forearms and a tattoo. He was constantly vexed by the larger, bearded, villainous Bluto, however,[…]
2016 Savary Chablis Burgundy, FR Regular Price: $29.99 Sale Price $23.99 So, here’s the thing…some people won’t drink white wine in cold weather. I’m not sure why that is. Because it’s served chilled? So what, they don’t drink coffee in the summer? Still other people won’t drink white wine at all. It seems that somehow,[…]
2016 Valerie Forgues Gamay Touraine, Loire Valley Regular Price $24.99 Sale Price $19.99 Loire Valley Gamay is one of the grapes that wine critics almost never reference, as the resulting wines are seldom deep, dense, hedonistic, jammy or purple/black. Instead, they are often balanced, precise, transparent and delicious, exhibiting aromas of the soil and river[…]
2016 Arterberry Maresh Old Vines Pinot Noir Dundee Hills, Oregon Regular Price $54.99 Sale Price $43.99 I first visited Oregon in the late 80’s…and was captivated by the burgeoning wine scene; it was open and friendly and passionate, qualities that I felt were no longer in evidence in California. I’d like to tell you that[…]
2013 Fattoria Poggiopiano Chianti Classico Regular Price $24.99 Sale Price $19.99 So, here’s the thing…to a lot of people, the idea of drinking a Chianti Classico is far more enjoyable than the reality of it. That’s because Chianti Classico is a wine that is best enjoyed with food, not as a cocktail. Quite frankly, the[…]
2018 Pierre-Marie Chermette Beaujolais Vieille Vignes Primeur ‘Origine’ Regular price: $18.99 Sale price: $14.99 2018 Château Gaillard Beaujolais Villages Nouveau Regular price: $14.99 Sale price: $11.99 2018 Christophe Pacalet Beaujolais Nouveau Regular price: $22.99 Sale price: $17.99 Ok, its that time again. But, listen…you don’t have to drink this wine. It’s not[…]
2014 Syrocco Syrah Zenata, Morocco Regular Price $34.99 Sale Price $27.99 Don’t act so surprised. Wine production in Northern Africa (begun there most likely by the Phoenicians) predates most of Europe by about thousand years. And in modern times, inexpensive wine from Tunisia and Libya were illegally blended into wines from the south of France[…]
2015 Bastide Miraflors Rouge Côtes du Roussillon, FR Regular Price $17.99 Sale Price $13.99 This is not a new wine for us, we’ve been working with it for about 8 months or so, after waiting for the 2015 vintage to be released. Because it’s a big, dense red wine, we didn’t beat the drum for[…]
2016 Herdade do Rocim Touriga Nacional Alentejano, POR Regular Price $22.99 Sale Price $17.99 A few things you should know about Portuguese wines… Portugal has been growing grapes and making wines since at least 2000 BC. So, if this is your first encounter with wines from Portugal, its not because they were just discovered.. While[…]