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A Pair of Pichlers Sale 1-18-24
We’re slashing our already incredibly low prices to stock your cellars with some of the finest wines produced in all of Austria!
5% off any 2-5 in-stock Pichler-Krutlzer and/or FX Pichler bottles
10% off any 6-18 in-stock Pichler-Krutlzer and/or FX Pichler bottles
15% off any 19 or more in-stock Pichler-Krutlzer and/or FX Pichler bottles
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Discount ends Saturday, January 20th at 9 am Pacific
10% off any 6-18 in-stock Pichler-Krutlzer and/or FX Pichler bottles
15% off any 19 or more in-stock Pichler-Krutlzer and/or FX Pichler bottles
Discount will not display online or in your cart,
We will adjust your invoice before processing your card.
Discount ends Saturday, January 20th at 9 am Pacific
Pichler-Krutlzer
Elisabeth Pichler-Krutzler, daughter of Franz Xaver (F.X.) Pichler, married the highly-regarded Austrian winemaker Erich Krutzler. In 2007, the pair founded the estate of Pichler-Krutlzer. Their winery is based around the great vineyards of the Wachau and produces some of Austria’s most highly regarded wines.… Read the rest
The Incomparable Gobelsburg Tradition 1-17-24
“The ‘Tradition’ wines are an ode to the winemaking style being employed at Gobelsburg in the early 19th century – specifically the years between 1800 and 1850. This period is characterised by the era of baroque, where intense aromatisation in vinfication was being practiced.” – Winery note
We wine industry nerds love to talk of wines as “hands off” in style or made “in the vineyard.” Yet these platitudes ignore that, lest the grapes be left for the birds, human intervention is required to make the liquid in your glass. Though the soil, climate, season, and vines bless us with their fruits, it is the labor of many hands that craft them into wine.
Perhaps by running away from industrial wine, we have allowed the pendulum to swing too far in the other direction.… Read the rest
Familia Nin-Ortiz 1-16-24
Familia Nin-Ortiz
Two-Day Sale Starts Now
Two-Day Sale Starts Now
“[Ester Nin and Carles Ortiz] make characterful wines, among the best in Priorat.” -Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
Familia Nin-Ortiz is one of the leading lights of “New Priorat”. Both Ester Nin and Carles Ortiz are renowned viticulturists (Ester, notably, was the vineyard guru behind Clos i Terrasses/Clos Erasmus and previously worked at Mas Martinet). They were some of the earliest proponents of biodynamics in Priorat, but what they’re doing together on the winery side is stunning indeed.
They combined their personal purchases of esteemed vineyards in Priorat, Nin bought a small parcel of old-vine “Garnatxa Negre, Peluda, and Carinyena in Mas d’En Caçador– the famed vineyard on the border between Porrera and Gratallops” in 2004, per European Cellars, and Ortiz purchased “nearly 5 hectares of vineyard land outside Porrera called Finca Les Planetes.”… Read the rest
Vinopolis Newsletter – Monday 1/15/2024
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