Pure Meursault

Domaine Lafouge “Les Meix-Chavaux” (Meursault, 2013) ~$44/bottle Meursault is one the most famous vineyard regions in the world for good reason. It offers a combination of flavors found in few chardonnay wines anywhere. When we can find a wine that…

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Posted on 2015.09.09 in France, Saturday Sips Wines, Burgundy  |  Read more...

 

Groundbreaking Sauvignon Blanc from the Pyrenees

Castell d’Encus “Taleia” (Costers del Segre, 2013) ~$40/bottle Raül Bobet has a long list of achievements: He has a masters degree in chemical engineering and a doctorate in oenology. He has 18 years of experience at Bodegas Torres, Spain’s largest producer…

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Posted on 2015.09.03 in Saturday Sips Wines, Spain DO, Costers del Segre  |  Read more...

 

An Italian White of Fruit & Sunshine

Pievalta (Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC Classico Superiore, 2014) ~$17/bottle Elie Wine Company specializes in wines with specific characteristics unique to the place that they come from — what the French call terroir. Wines with that extra something special that’s…

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Posted on 2015.08.20 in Saturday Sips Wines, Marche, Italy  |  Read more...

 

Keeping Summer Alive with Rothschild Rosé

Barons de Rothschild “Les Lauriers” Rosé (2014, Bordeaux from Montagne-Saint-Émilion)  ~$18/bottle We’re not ready to give up on summer yet. There are still plenty of outside gatherings with friends ahead of us. Plenty of barbecues and trips up north to…

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Posted on 2015.08.01 in France, Bordeaux, Saturday Sips Wines  |  Read more...

 

French Inspiration, Mediterranean Soul

~$25 Principia Mathematica (Penedès, 2013) ~$25 Pas Curtei (Penedès, 2011) ~$79 Sot Lefriec (Penedès, 2006) Travel south and west down the coast of Spain from Barcelona past golden, powdery sand beaches before heading inland to the Massís del Garraf –…

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Posted on 2015.07.30 in Saturday Sips Wines, Spain DO, Penedes  |  Read more...

 

Meet the Winemaker of Almaroja

$19.99 Almaroja “Pirita” White (Arribes, 2012) – SOLD OUT $29 Almaroja “Pirita” Red (Arribes, 2011) When winemaker and Englishwoman Charlotte Allen first beheld the western Spanish landscape of Las Arribes del Duero, on the border with Portugal, she was “overwhelmed by the…

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Posted on 2015.07.23 in Saturday Sips Wines, Spain DO, Arribes  |  Read more...

 

Going Native in Northwestern Spain

Dominio del Urogallo “Pésico” (2013) ~$28/Bottle Nicolás Marcos clearly likes a challenge. He left his family’s winery in Toro, where generations had made wine previous, did a stint with the distinguished Alain Graillot in Crozes-Hermitage, and then settled into the…

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Posted on 2015.07.16 in Saturday Sips Wines, Misc Spanish, Spain DO  |  Read more...

 

Cava – The Sparkling Wine of Spain + Art by Ed Fraga

Valldolina Cava Reserva “Brut Nature” ~$18/Bottle While your sipping this scandalously drinkable wine with aromas of apple blossom, wheat crackers, and sunshine, enjoy nine new works at our inaugural Wine & Art series, Ed Fraga : Fugitive Speculations. Fraga’s paintings…

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Posted on 2015.07.08 in Saturday Sips Wines, Spain DO, Cava  |  Read more...

 

A New Look at Rioja

~$14 Artuke (Rioja 2013) – SOLD OUT ~$21 Artuke “Pies Negros” (Rioja 2011) – SOLD OUT Join us this Saturday to sample two singular red wines from a rising star in Rioja, Spain’s most well known winemaking region. Both…

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Posted on 2015.06.24 in Saturday Sips Wines, Spain DO, Rioja DOC  |  Read more...

 

Give Dad the Gift of Burgundy

~$40 Domaine Darviot-Perrin “Les Magnys” (Bourgogne Blanc 2011, Chardonnay) – SOLD OUT ~$26 Domaine Jean-Claude Regnaudot (Maranges “La Fussière” Premier Cru 2013, Pinot Noir) – SOLD OUT Dads like grilling and power tools. Dads like driving past rest areas…

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Posted on 2015.06.17 in France, Saturday Sips Wines, Burgundy  |  Read more...

 

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