Vinopolis Newsletter 9-6-24

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Special Arrivals
Beaux Freres and Sequitur

New Arrivals
Marie Courtin, Domenico Clerico, GD Vajra, and Peter Lauer

Featured Close-Out Wines
Awesome Amarones, Bodacious Burgundies!

 
Special Arrivals
 
 
Oregon
 
Beaux Freres
 

So you’ve been a wine salesman in Colorado Springs for years, dreaming of starting your own winery. But where?
 
It was a detour onto a foreclosed pig farm while on a family road trip that sealed Mike Etzel’s fate. Once he’d found the vineyard that would become Beaux Freres everything else began to fall into place. He traded his suit for boots and a shovel and dug right into Oregon’s burgeoning wine industry.

“The Beaux Frères Vineyard is located on an 88-acre farm atop Ribbon Ridge near Newberg, Oregon.
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Dominus Estate: Napa’s Pinnacle 9-5-24

 
“Christian Moueix’s Dominus Estate continues to be one of California’s leaders in turning out gorgeously elegant, complex and long-lived wines.”
-Robert M. Parker, Jr., the Wine Advocate
 
Dominus
 

Your Three-Day Discount Starts Now
 
Christian Moueix, proprietor of the legendary Château Petrus in Pomerol founded Dominus in Napa Valley. His vision has shaped Dominus into the force it is today. Despite its French heritage, the wine is defiantly California in tone and style, combining waves of rich fruit and beautiful aromatics with enough tannin to ground the wine. Practicing both dry and organic farming, Christian Moueix’s Dominus produces one of the most terroir expressive wines in the United States. 
 
The resulting wines are iconic: avidly collected by enthusiasts who give the bottles pride of place in their cellars.
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Vinopolis Newsletter 9-4-2024 PM

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Arriving Friday
Tenuta Delle Terre Nere, Cappellano

New Arrivals
Domaine Marc Colin, Von Winning

Featured Close-Out Wines
Produttori del Terre Nere

Staff Pick
Bang your head if you miss out on this elegant Piedmontese value
 
Arriving Friday
 

Italy
 
Tenuta Delle Terre Nere
 

“The Etna is the Burgundy of the Mediterranean,” says the man whose career as an importer of fine Italian wines is legendary. Marc De Grazia is one of the original ‘Barolo Boys,’ and his beloved Tenuta delle Terre Nere was more than 20 years in the making. Today, he farms 29 parcels on the northern flank, and his portfolio of wines is the gold standard for Etna wine.” -Wine Advocate
 
The fact that Etna is a wine producing region at all is miraculous.
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JJ Prum: Apex Mosel Riesling 9-4-24

“Few estates in the world can claim to have maintained the highest quality standards uninterrupted for half a century and more. Joh Jos Prum… is one estate that can.”
–Stuart Pigott, The Wine Atlas of Germany
 
Joh. Jos. Prum:
 
Apex Mosel Riesling
 

On Sale Now!
 
Manfred and Katarina Prüm make some of the finest and most sought-after wines of the middle-Mosel. These reference-point Mosel Rieslings are some of the most profound and age-worthy white wines in the world. No other producer in the middle Mosel is as respected or collectible. These white wines have near-unparalleled consistency in aging worldwide.
 
The Prüm wines are high-wire acts of tension between fruit and intense minerality. By some subtle alchemy, the wines spring forth from the parcels of mostly old, ungrafted vines through spontaneous fermentation and a dash of magic in the cellar.
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Vinopolis Newsletter 9-2-24

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Please Note: we will be closing at 4pm Monday, September 2nd, for Labor Day

Special Arrival
Chianti to stand the test of time

New Arrivals
Cameron, Marc Colin, Castell’in Villa, Terre Nere, Filipa Pato, and more!

Staff Pick
When you make only one wine it had better be good!
Special Arrivals


Castell’in Villa
 


Coralia Pignatelli della Leonessa, Owner

“This historic winery is known for producing some of the most traditionally-crafted, age-worthy wines in the appellation. To illustrate this, they have also kept back an extensive library of older vintages (…) Proprietress Principessa Coralia Pignatelli della Leonessa and her husband first saw the estate in 1967 and then bought the property in 1968. At that time, there was just the 13th century farmhouse and outbuildings along with one hectare of vineyards.
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