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Midweek Addition 2-5-20

In Today’s Newsletter:

Subscriber Special:
10% Off Already-Value Burgundy

Delas: Taste Ambition

New Wines from Champagne’s Hottest Winemaker

An Insider’s Pick in Champagne

Santa Duc: Regal Gigondas and More

#Trending

Collector’s Corner
XXL, Indeed (AKA: A Perfect Chateauneuf)

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Subscriber Special:

10% Off Already-Value Burgundy

“Collotte remains one of the most under the radar growers in Marsannay. At their best, these wines are striking for their purity of fruit and overall sense of harmony.” –Antonio Galloni

A vintage like 2015 isn’t just a great year in Burgundy—it’s a great buying opportunity if you know where to look.  While the prices for the top wines from the best producers skyrocketed, the value producers’ prices barely budged.  That’s an exceptional opportunity, as the floor rises far more than the ceiling in a warm year like ’15.  
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Mid-Week VinopolPick – 1-28-20

In Today’s Newsletter:


James Suckling’s Wine of the Decade

Winery-Cellar Released 2008 Screaming Eagle
 
New Reviews for JJ Prum’s 2017’s

Two Great Rioja Values

Staff Pick – A Rosé for Carnitas Soup (and Other Things)

Big Red Deals from Southern Spain

A Follow Up to Our Fastest-Selling Chianti

#Trending

Collector’s Corner – Back Vintage La Tâche



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James Suckling’s Wine of the Decade

2017 Almaviva 

James Suckling recently published his “wine of the decade”—the single bottling that impressed him most over the course of the last ten years.  His choice? The profoundly powerful 2017 Almaviva Puente Alto—a perfect wine made under the auspices of Mouton Rothschild and Concha y Toro.

The winery has been one of the best in the world over the course of the decade, earning two perfect scores, and Suckling notes that “”For the last 10 years, vintage after vintage, Almaviva vineyard has been quietly, consistently establishing a track record as one of the greatest wine producers in Chile, if not all of the world.” 
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Monday Newsletter 1-27-2020

In This Newsletter:

A Rare Vertical of Barthod Chambolle

Trending

Terre Nere’s Top Wines

2017 Merkelbach
New Reviews from David Schildknecht

Domaine Durand
New Offer Arrives Friday

Collector’s Corner
Gaja
 
 
Arriving Friday

A Rare Vertical of Barthod Chambolle

Ghislaine Barthod makes some of the most magical wines in Burgundy.  A Chambolle specialist, her wines always capture the delicacy and ethereal qualities we look for in the village.  While her top wines command extreme prices, her village level Chambolle-Musigny is one of the better deals in the world of Burgundy.  Drinking it blind, you’d assume what’s in the glass would be Premier Cru (or better, in some vintages).

We’re excited to offer a seven-vintage vertical of that wine today—the perfect chance to grab some perfectly cellared wines that greatly exceed the destiny of their labels.  
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Midweek Addition 1-23-20

In Today’s Newsletter:

A 24 Hour Sale
On the Best Produttori Normale Ever

A Loire Gamay With Old-School Beaujolais Pricing

Our New Favorite Under $20 Pinot?

Previously Sold Out – Re-Arriving Friday
2018 Keller Von der Fels

Hartford Court’s Top Sonoma Chard and Pinot

Collector’s Corner
Freemark Abbey – Napa’s Comeback Kid

New Wines from Arnot Roberts

Trending Wines
 
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A 24 Hour Sale

On the Best Produttori Normale Ever

10% off the 2016 Produttori Normale Barbaresco for one day only

The Produttori del Barbaresco is a unique producer in the world of wine—a co-op which is nonetheless the definitive producer in their region. Barbaresco vintages are judged based on whether or not the Produttori decides to bottle their set of single-vineyard riservas and their flagship “Normale” is often the first bottle of Barbaresco wine drinkers try.  
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Midweek Addition 1-22-20

In Today’s Newsletter:

The Most Undervalued Estate in Brunello

New Grapelive Reviews for Three Vinopolis Favorites

Traditional Montalcino at an Attractive Price

The Outstanding 2014 Produttori Riservas

Trending Wines

Collector’s Corner
Large Format West Coast Big Reds

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The Most Undervalued Estate in Brunello?

If geography were destiny, La Fortuna would be one of the most famous estates in Brunello.  It’s lucky for you and us, though, that their impeccable wines fly under the radar—the pricing for these beauties is well under what the market generally asks for this sort of quality.

La Fortuna’s vineyard sits smack dab in the middle of some of the best names in Brunello, just barely west of the town of Montalcino.  Casanova di Neri is barely more than a half mile east on the same ridge and Fuligni is the next address on their street.  
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