2017 Roveglia ‘Limne’ Lugana
Veneto, IT
Regular Price $22.99
Sale price $17.99
This wine is made of 100% Turbiana di Lugana (AKA Trebbiano). Its bright and fresh and clean with faint but persistent dried stone fruit aromas and grassy and nutty flavors finished by crisp and enlivening acidity
2017 Eladio Pineiro ‘Envidia Cochina’ Albarino
Rias Baixas, SP
Regular Price $27.99
Sale price $21.99
I find most Albarino dull as dirt…not bad, but not at all interesting. This one is an exception, largely due to its lengthy lees aging which creates weight, texture and flavor without robbing the wine of Albarino’s typically generous acidity
2017 Domaine Brazilier Rosé Coteaux du Vendômois
Loire Valley, FR
Regular Price $14.99
Sale price $11.99
Located in Thoré-la-Rochette in the eastern Loire near the Atlantic ocean, father and son Jean and Benoit Brazilier farm 25 hectares of vines, ten of which are family owned (Benoit is the seventh generation of the Brazilier winemaking legacy here). Made with Pineau d’Aunis, which, of course, no one has heard of, and the subsequent wine is bright with fresh cherry and herbal hints.
|
2017 Envinate Albahra, Almansa
Castilla-La Mancha, SP
Regular Price $22.99
Sale price $17.99
A blend of 70% Garnacha Tintorera and 30% Moravia Agria, this is a wine with a pure high-toned nose, floral red fruit, with hints of spice and bursting with minerality. Its an extremely versatile food wine, especially with Mediterranean meats and seafood.
2016 De Forville Nebbiolo d’Alba ‘San Rocco’
Piedmont, IT
Regular Price $29.99
Sale price $23.99
The De Forville family has been in Barbaresco since 1860, and they’ve learned a thing or two about Nebbiolo over the years. There remain traditionalists, and their wines develop the complex aromas of fruit, earth and flowers that can only result from Nebbiolo that is vinified in traditional manner. Like this wine.
2016 Chateau La Rame
Bordeaux, FR
Regular Price $22.99
Sale price $17.99
This blend of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet is far more typically of the quality and style of most of Bordeaux than the ‘garage’ wines that the critics rant over. Those wines are made of overripe Merlot, drenched in small oak barrels and possessing no sense of place or tradition. This wine, on the other hand is unoaked, fresh, minerally and a bit earthy. Like Bordeaux of old.