Thursday VinopolPick 3-1-18
In Today’s Newsletter:
Clos Sainte Magdeleine Rosé
Anakota Cabernet – Great Name, Big Points
Wine Spectator With New Reviews For 2015 Reynvaan
Appellations of the Northern Rhone: Cornas
#Trending March Clearance Sale Wines
2014 Charlopin: Under the Radar in Gevrey-Chambertin
Truly Super Tuscans (At Super Prices)
Lapierre’s Last Tranche
Cornas, Continued (The Pre-Arrivals)
Arriving Next Friday
The 94 Point Clos Sainte Magdeleine Rosé
We get into the mood for rosé at the first sign of spring (which is usually the release of Ameztoi Rubentis). We’re getting the superlative Clos Sainte Magdeleine rosé in next Friday and we couldn’t be more excited.
If you’ve been to Cassis, you know the vineyard—a peninsula of vines that juts out into the bay of Cassis.
The March Clearance Sale rolls on, with a special treat today—all three 2016 single vineyard Sec’s from Domaine Huet. These are some of the most profound dry white wines in the world and a bargain at full price. At these clearance prices, well…these are no-brainers if we ever saw them.
Grapelive 94 points “Mark Vlossak’s brilliant 2014 Freedom Hill Pinot is bursting with minty rose oil, Bing cherry and mineral tones. This bright and gripping wine is absolutely everything you’d want from an Oregon Pinot. In fact it’s very Volnay like in the glass with racy fruits, earth, spice and intense detail.
Domaine de Montille may be best known for their reds, but they’ve quietly been making some incredible whites from some of the best vineyards in the Cote d’Or. These are wines that have the minerality that you’d expect from the storied domaine. We just got a bunch of the reds in, as well, (just see the weekend newsletter) but wanted to highlight these new arrivals that tend to fly under the radar.
The hill of Hermitage was the home of a knight seeking solace from the horrors of the Crusades upon his return home. He built a chapel to pray in and that building, the Chapel of Saint Christopher, is the defining marker of the hillside. Jaboulet’s “La Chapelle” is likewise the defining wine of Hermitage for many.