A Fairly Priced, Quality Red Burgundy from Marsannay

Price: $49/bottle – SOLD OUT In a superbly written essay about the spirituality of wine, Michigan-born novelist, poet, and wine enthusiast Jim Harrison discovered a secret French bible that declares: to drink red wine after dark is to fight…

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Posted on 2013.06.28 in France, Saturday Sips Wines, Burgundy  |  Read more...

Commemorate Bloomsday with a Sample of 2011 David Moreau Santenay Cuvée ‘S’ (and a Gorgonzola Sandwich)

Price: $39/bottle SOLD OUT “Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods’ roes.” – James Joyce, Ulysses Leopold Bloom…

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Posted on 2013.06.14 in France, Saturday Sips Wines, Burgundy  |  Read more...

2007 Pascal Jolivet Pouilly Fumé – Quality Loire Sauvignon Blanc for a Song

Price: $99/6 ($17/bottle) SOLD OUT Our good friend Yorick tends toward the melodramatic. Just the other day, while hanging out here at the store, he bellowed, “Why, then the world’s mine oyster, which I with sword will open!” The…

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Posted on 2013.06.04 in France, Loire  |  Read more...