Billecart-Salmon Brut Reserve Champagne, France Regular Price $63.99 Sale Price $49.99 Despite the fact that nearly all wine consumers know of it and that millions of dollars are spent annually promoting it, Champagne remains unappreciated. Many still only think of Champagne as a celebratory beverage, many more still think that any wine with bubbles is[…]
2017 Ameztoi Rubentis Txakoli Getariako Txakolina, Spain Regular Price $24.99 Sale Price $19.99 As wine fads go, rosé has actually shown some staying power. Despite its numerous detractors and misguided opinions, (it’s a summer wine! It’s sweet! it’s must be very pale! It’s not a serious wine! Not really, not usually, not relevant, absurd) rosé[…]
2015 Château Soucherie Anjou Blanc ‘Cuvee Les Rangs de Long’ Regular Price $22.99 Sale Price $17.99 The Loire Valley is, without doubt, the most beautiful wine region in the world. The wide range of wines also makes it the most versatile wine region, as you’ll find dry, sweet, semi-sweet, still, sparkling, red, white and rose wines[…]
2015 Domaine Charles Audoin Bourgogne Rouge Regular Price $34.99 Sale Price $27.99 Lots of wines from Burgundy are labeled as ‘Bourgogne Rouge’, which is the lowest rung in the Burgundy hierarchy. But not all Bourgognes are alike. While some are made and released quickly by large negociants from excess grapes, others are the product of[…]
2015 Le Domaine Montirius Vacqueyras ‘Garrigues’ Regular Price $27.99 Sale Price $21.99 I first meet Christine Saurel nearly 15 years ago and then had the opportunity to visit her and husband Eric at their southern Rhone estate a few years later. Then, the wine world was just discussing the benefits of organic and biodynamic farming,[…]
2016 Memo Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Regular Price $12.99 Sale Price $9.99 Looking for that bright and juicy warm weather red? Look no further! Montepulciano is Italy’s second most planted indigenous grape varietal, planted primarily in central, eastern and southern regions but not in Tuscany, where the town of Montepulciano lies. It’s thought that Tuscany’s Sangiovese grape[…]
2016 Pierre-Marie Chermette Moulin a Vent Cru Beaujolais ‘Les Trois Roches’ Regular Price $32.99 Sale Price $25.99 Some wines are meant to pondered over. They are complex and coy, revealing aromas and flavors over a period of time, changing in the glass and the bottle as it empties. Other wines are all about instant gratification.[…]
2013 San Giusto a Rentennano Chianti Classico DOCG Regular Price $43.99 Sale Price $34.99 Nearly everyone knows Chianti…there’s quite literally an ocean of it bottled annually (about 8 million cases). The term itself refers to a geographic region, in central Tuscany, roughly situated between Florence and Siena. The earliest documentation of a “Chianti wine” dates[…]
2016 Jean Paul Brun ‘Le Rose d’Folie’ Beaujolais Rose Regular Price $19.99 Sale Price $15.99 Let’s be clear…neither the calendar nor the thermometer is a factor in my selecting this as my favorite wine this week. The is my favorite wine because it’s friggin’ delicious! This wine is 100% Gamay, but unlike the eponymous Beaujolais[…]
2015 Sidebar Red Field Blend Russian River Valley, CA Regular Price $29.99 Sale Price $23.99 Sometimes, all that you want from a wine is some fun. Sometimes, the incessant swirling and slurping from the so-called experts is enough to make you go mad. Sometimes, you don’t want to hear about points, and age-worthy-ness and food[…]