Tag Archives: Mid-week Newsletter

Vinopolis Tuesday Telegraph 12-12-17

Pian dell’Orino’s Brilliant Brunello; Clouet for the Holidays; German Riesling End of Bin Sales; Rinaldi’s Incredible 2013 Barolo Crus; Karthauserhof’s Lean Mean Riesling

The Next Legendary Brunello Producer

Pian dell’Orino’s Monumental 2011

Soldera. Biondi Santi. The two giants of Brunello. Pretty soon it looks like we might be able to add Pian dell’Orino to that list. Brunello insiders have known about the wines for several years now, but the secret seems to be getting out. We don’t get a lot of these wines, but we have enough to offer them today and we’re really excited to share them with you.

Piano dell’Orino combines two things that make great wine estates: good land and obsessive ownership. Caroline Pobitzer and Jan Hendrik Erbach, the owners and driving force behind these wines, have a take-no-prisoners approach to ensure that they make the finest wines in Brunello.  

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Tuesday VinpolPick 12-5-17

Rostaing Ampodium; Batard-Montrachet Under $150; Terlato Angel’s Peak; Our Favorite Budget Champagnes; New Cepparello Release; Staff Pick: Cameron Nebbiolo; New Grapelive Reviews; Charles Smith Does It Again; Joseph Swan—California Icon

2014 Rostaing Ampodium

A Excellent Deal Gets Better

2014 is an excellent year to buy Rene Rostaing’s Ampodium Cote Rotie, and not just because we’ve dropped the price on it to make it an even better deal.

No, 2014 was a very good year in Cote Rotie, qualitatively, but yields were way down—60% off of normal in the case of Rostaing.  As a result, he made only one Cote Rotie, declassifying the Landonne and Cote Brune into the Ampodium bottling (which used to be known as “Classique” if you’ve been following the wines for a while).  

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Black Friday VinopolPick 11-22-17

Thanksgiving Hours; West Coast Black Friday Sale; Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines

Thanksgiving Weekend Shop Hours

Our shop is closed for Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 23rd

We will reopen for our regularly scheduled hours on Friday, November 24th

10 am – 6 pm

Don’t forget, though, that our web store never closes and

is packed full of 2700+ wines

Black Friday West Coast Wine Sale

Your special discount: 10% off listed price on all in-stock wines from Oregon, Washington…and California, too.
Discount does not apply to pre-arrival offers
Discount does not apply to Case-6 or Case-12 SKU’s
Discount will not appear in online shopping cart
We will apply it here before charging

Sale Ends Friday, November 24th at 11:59 PST

We offer over 200 wines from the Pacific Northwest in stock right now, from Washington Cabernet and Syrah to Oregon Chardonnay and Pinot Noir (and also some pretty decent juice from the Bear Republic).  

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Vinopolis Monday Newsletter 11-19-17

Thanksgiving Sales; Huet Demi Sec Shines in ’15 and ’16; New Arrivals from Schrader, Diamond Creek, Gaja and More!; Bollinger’s 2006 Vintage Rose 

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Thanksgiving Sales!

Thanksgiving is a wine holiday if we ever saw one—lots of people, lots of different foods and a lot of time to hang out and drink.  We tend not to sweat having “perfect” pairings, but instead focus on versatile wines that you can drink with everything on the table—and in quantity.

The last part is probably the most important wine rule for Thankgiving: Don’t run out of wine!  No matter if the company is boorish, the turkey burnt or dinner three hours later than expected, if you have enough wine then all sins are forgiven.… Read the rest

Thursday Newsletter 10-26-17

48 Hour Delas Sale; New Washington State Reviews from Vinous; Staff Pick Barbaresco; Bursin’s Brilliance; New Thanksgiving Sales; New Clouet Arrivals; #Trending Pre-Arrivals

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48 Hour Sale

Sale Ends Saturday at Midnight

Delas Freres 2013 Hermitage

Delas Freres Hermitage Les Bessards, Rhone 2013 750ML ($249.95) Was $199, Now $159, 9 bottles in stock now
Josh Raynolds–Vinous 95 points “(aged in 70% new oak for 18 months): Inky ruby. Sexy, highly perfumed aromas of ripe dark berries, cherry liqueur, peppery spices and fresh flowers, backed by a hint of olive. Supple and appealingly sweet, offering intense, deeply concentrated blackberry and violet pastille flavors and a suggestion of star anise. Finishes pure, sweet and energetic on the penetrating finish, showing outstanding focus and slow-building tannins.”… Read the rest