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Saint Cosme Sale
Rosé of the Day


 
Fans For Life!
 
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Saint Cosme & Chateau de Rouanne
 

If there is a single producer in the Rhône that embodies that rare combination of affordability and luxury, it is Château de Saint Cosme. Considered a benchmark in its home town of Gigondas, Saint Cosme is a historical gem, founded in the 1500s. Louis Barroul heads the estate as the 14th generation of his family to do so. Professionals and reviewers consider him one of the region’s greatest winemakers who offers consistently excellent quality and value across the entire portfolio.
 
Barroul crafts rich and powerful wines with undeniable terroir signatures. To highlight these varying terroirs, the estate bottles a handful of single-vineyard Gigondas, which are the most interesting and coveted wines in the portfolio.

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Campania Sale
Collector’s Corner: Montevertine


 
Italy’s Under-The-Radar Source for Power, Value, and Charm
 
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Campania
 

Campania, one of Italy’s oldest wine regions, has been famous for its wines since the Greeks settled it. Located near Naples, there are numerous references to the quality of the wines in Roman writings. Yet despite its history, lauded grape varieties, and world-class wines, it is considered an obscure region today.
 
Campania’s crown jewel is the indigenous red wine grape Aglianico. Though they are aromatically different, like Cabernet Sauvignon, Aglianico is a thick-skinned red variety that creates full-bodied wines with rich tannins, ample acidity, and plenty of aging potential. The DOCG region of Taurasi, a subregion of Campania, it’s the place to look for the best examples.

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Inspired Champagne
Molitor for the Masses
Grape of the Week: Petite Sirah
Multitude of Magnums


 
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Donnhoff Sale
Nerd Alert Featurette: Boudignon


 
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The Impeccable Nahe Wines of Weingut Dönnhoff
 

Though the Mosel might get all the attention, the Nahe region of Germany offers something no other can boast: winemakers Helmut and Cornelius Dönnhoff. Anyone who knows their wines knows that this compliment is well deserved.
 
Dönnhoff is one of our favorite German producers, one we stock by the pallet-load. And we’re not the only ones obsessed. Folks frequently tell us that a bottle of aged Hermannshohle GG or the humble yet delicious Estate Trocken or the fiercely mineral and refined Oberhauser Brucke Spätlese was THE Riesling that sparked their passion for German terroir (that last was mine :). Despite their extensive lineup, there’s rarely a wine made here that isn’t the finest of its type and terroir each vintage.

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Sequitur Sale
Close-Out Featurette: Muller-Catoir


 
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Sequitur
 

Mike Etzel, the founder and winemaker of Sequitur, is a living legend in the Willamette Valley. He co-founded Beaux Frères in the late 1980s and was the winemaker there until recently passing the duties to his son. Never one to rest on his laurels, though, he began planting a vineyard adjacent to Beaux Frères in 2010—a project that became what we know as Sequitur.

It’s helpful to think of Sequitur as a distillation of everything Mike Etzel learned while starting and producing Beaux Frères over the decades. The Sequitur vineyard sits right next to the Beaux Frères “Upper Terrace” but is planted to a wider array of clones at tighter spacing.