2/22/16

New Week – New Arrivals; New Arrival Special Feature: Karthäuserhof; This Week’s Re-Arrivals; Wines Arriving This Week; 100 point Wine Arriving March 5th; Upcoming Releases from Altesino
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OREGON
Illahe Estate Tempranillo Rose, Willamette Valley 2015 750ML ($19.95) $16 special
Pressed whole cluster. Produced from one ton of estate-grown Tempranillo.
Winery note “Illahe Vineyard is planted on a south-facing slope. The slope ranges from about 4% near the bottom to over 20% near the top. The top of the vineyard is at 440 feet elevation, and the bottom 250. Illahe is a warm site that experiences slightly earlier budbreak and flowering than many other vineyards in the Willamette Valley. The grapes achieve maturity even in cooler vintages. Illahe is a LIVE-certified, Salmon Safe vineyard.… Read the rest

Saturday, February 20th 2016

Bedrock and Early Bird Deal; Flash Sale – Top Tier Rosso di Montalcino; New Arrivals; Wines Arriving Tuesday; Domaine Philippe Charlopin – Limited Releases Arriving Friday; First Look: 2011 Brunello; Philipponnat: 2006 Vintage – New Release; Philippe Pacalet 2014 Burgundies & Cornas; Domaine Servin; Bruna Grimaldi; Domaine de la Vougeraie; A Tour of Italy: Case Deals from off the Beaten Path

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Early Bird Gets The Gift!

Bedrock Wine Co. ‘The Bedrock Heritage’ Wine, Sonoma Valley 2013 750ML ($49.95) $41.90 special
Antonio Galloni 94+ points “The 2013 Bedrock Heritage Wine is one of the most intriguing wines in the range. Smoke, cedar, tobacco and a host of savory notes meld together in a powerful yet nuanced wines built on delineation and energy.… Read the rest

2/17/16

Staff Pick; New Vintage from Maison Roy; Vinopolis Wish-List; Two Deals from Two Hands; Winemaker Profile: Marc Deschamps; 2014 Austrian Vintage Report & New Austrian Reviews; Achaval Ferrer Arriving Friday – Great Score, Best Price!

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Staff Pick

Philippe Pacalet Moulin A Vent 2014 750ML ($59.95) $49 special, 35 bottles available
Philippe Pacalet Moulin A Vent 2014 1.5L ($119.95) $99 special, 6 magnums available
This is the only listing in the USA today!

Never patient when it comes to Beaujolais, I drank Pacalet’s intrepid Moulin-a-Vent the very night it arrived at our shop. A simple salmon dish served as accompaniment, and I poured some out into a decanter in order to contrast normal and accelerated evolution of the wine as it aerated.… Read the rest

2/15/16

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Featured New Arrival; New Arrivals; Re-Arrivals;  Arriving This Week; Arriving Soon; Isole e Olena Feature; Diamond Creek & Napa 2012’s

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Featured New Arrival

“Tasting a Dagueneau wine for the first time was a revelation. His Sauvignon Blancs had an unexpected purity and clarity to them. The flavors were intense but nuanced. It wasn’t the fruit that was piercing, as in so many Sauvignon Blancs, but the freshness and the focus. As powerful a personality as he was, his wines did not exalt the stature of the winemaker so much as the beauty of the terroir.”
– Eric Asimov

Didier Dagueneau Blanc Fume de Pouilly 2013 750ML ($79.95) $69 special, 24 bottles available
Joel Payne – Vinous “Pale straw.… Read the rest

2/13/16
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Screaming Eagle; The Rosé Sale Ends Tomorrow!; New Arrivals from Cameron, Silver Oak, & Didier Dagueneau; Evening Land Arriving Next Week; Final Drop from Resonance; Exploring Northern Rhone: Hermitage & Crozes-Hermitage; Oregon Back-Vintages; Piedmont Case Deals; German Vineyards: Erderner Treppchen & Erdener Prälat

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3 x $1,699 =
Arriving Mid-March

Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley 2013 750ML ($1,995.95) $1,699 pre-arrival special, 3 bottles available
Antonio Galloni 98+ points “Continuing along a similar theme, the 2013 Screaming Eagle is incredibly concentrated and powerful. Today, the 2013 tastes like a concoction of liquefied rocks, crème de cassis, blackberry jam and lavender. Deep, dense and beautifully layered in the glass, the 2013 captivates all the senses with its majestic complexity. With time in the glass, the 2013 gets better and better, to the point I would have liked to follow it over several hours and perhaps days, which was not practical.… Read the rest