2017 Pierre et Rodolphe Gauthier ‘Jour de Soif’ Bourgueil Loire Valley, FR Regular Price $19.99 Sale Price $15.99 Here’s the thing…there’s an ocean of wine out there. And of that ocean of wine, only a few stand out, not because of some critics’ opinion (face it, the public doesn’t read the wine press, it’s all[…]
2015 MARFIL Alella Pansa Blanca Barcelona, SP Regular Price $16.99 Sale Price $11.99 OK, class, today we talk about Pansa Blanca. Who can tell me about Pansa Blanca? Johnny? Susie? Ok, how about Xarel-lo? No one? Stevie? Anyone? They are the same grapes, people! Enough with the faux-classroom…yes, Pansa Blanca and Xarel-lo are the same[…]
2015 Stephane Aviron Chenas Vieille Vignes Beaujolais, FR Regular Price $23.99 Sale Price $18.99 Beaujolais gets a bad rap, man. It’s not enough that many assume that all wines from Beaujolais drink like Nouveau Beaujolais, the tutti-fruity, banana and berry scented wines released every November, but additionally, the assumption is that the wines are simple[…]
2016 Terenzi Vermentino di Maremma ‘Balbino’ Toscano, IT Regular Price $19.99 Sale Price $15.99 Vermentino is great fun, both to drink and to confuse your wine snob friends because, its: A; known by about 20 different names, and B; is easily confused with nearly every other white wine. Its crisp and clean with floral and[…]
2016 Jean-Luc Mader Pinot Gris Hunawihr, Alsace Regular Price $22.99 Sale Price $17.99 But here’s the real problem with wines from Alsace; they just don’t behave! I mean, they are mostly white, and as the wine gatekeepers will tell you, white wines are thin (not true, but stay with me here). The critics gush over[…]
2016 La Mateo Rioja, Spain Regular Price $12.99 Sale Price $9.99 The challenge in making a good, cheap wine is that nearly every step that you undertake to make a better wine is antithetical to making a cheap wine. First of all, to make a cheap wine, you need cheap grapes. So, you can’t grow[…]
2017 Jean-Maurice Raffault ‘Les Galuches’ Chinon Loire Valley, France Regular Price $18.99 Sale Price $14.99 Some people seem to think that one can not drink red wines in the summer. Others think that big, rich, oaky, high alcohol wines are perfect in any season. They are both wrong. Ok, maybe ‘wrong’ is too strong of[…]
2016 Dept. 66 ‘Fragile’ Rosé Maury, France Regular Price $22.99 Sale Price $17.99 I had a completely different wine in mind to write about this week, but that one will have to wait. This wine is really and truly the proper wine for this week. Nearly everyone has now heard of Dave Phinney, the architect[…]
2014 Marc Deschamps ‘Les Vigne de Berge’ Pouilly Fume, France Regular Price $28.99 Sale Price $22.99 Let’s be very clear…I prefer wines that are more acidic than fruity, wines that are a bit older rather than younger and wines that are more interesting than simply delicious. If, on the other hand, you prefer young, lush,[…]
2015 Domaine de la Pepiere Clisson Muscadet Sèvre et Maine Clisson, France Regular Price $29.99 Sale Price $23.99 We bought this wine ‘blind’ (without tasting) a few weeks back and poured it our ‘Wild and Wonderful Whites’ tasting shortly thereafter. We knew the producer and his reputation, the importer (and their reputation) and the AOC[…]