This week’s tasting features six fantastic wines for 25% off or more! Altes Herencia Garnatxa Blanca 2014 Terra Alta, Spain. 100% Garnatxa Blanca (white Grenache). “A short maceration on skins is followed by pressing and fermentation. The wines spend 2 months on fine lees to gain texture and complexity.Very aromatic with notes of melon…
Martine’s Wines Presented by Regional Manager Jennie Mass Martine Saunier was born in Paris. “Although she lived and attended school there, she spent every summer vacation at her aunt’s home in Prissé, near Mâcon. Her aunt owned a winery with approximately 10 acres of vineyards planted with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. When Martine moved to the…
Imported by Frederick Wildman and Sons Wines from France, Portugal and Italy Frederick Wineman and Sons– “Following the repeal of prohibition, Frederick S. Wildman, a Connecticut-born wine connoisseur, bought the century-old Bellows and Co., a wine importer and fine-food emporium. That same year Wildman traveled to Europe’s finest vineyards to pursue suppliers and to…
Portugal and Spain Esporao– “The Alentejo’s landscape lazily unfolds among the gentle slopes that host the vineyards, corn fields, olive groves and holm and cork oaks interspersed with hill-top farms and whitewashed villages. Successively inhabited by local peoples, Romans, Visigoths and Muslims since pre-history, Reguengos de Monsaraz has been Portuguese since the reconquista in…
France, Italy and Portugal Olivier Leflaive– “We vinify and age the equivalent of 120 hectares of vines (including 17 of our own), the majority of which are white wines from the three prestigious Côte de Beaune villages of Puligny-Montrachet, Chassagne-Montrachet and Meursault, as well as from Chablis and the Côte Chalonnaise. Our daily mission…
Portugal and Spain Herdade do Esporao “Herdade do Esporão, like the Alentejo, reveals itself slowly. Located little more than 180 kilometres from Lisbon, in the depths of the Alentejo, in Reguengos de Monsaraz, the landscape lazily unfolds among the gentle slopes that host the vineyards, corn fields, olive groves and holm and cork oaks…
Happy Independence Day! This week we will celebrate the 4th of July with a seasonal, fun and FREE line-up of two whites, two roses and two reds from various regions. Join us tomorrow night for a fantastic line-up. Hofer Gruner Veltliner 2011- Austria. $13.99 Legado Torrontes 2013- Argentina. $13.99 Orlana Vinho Verde…
Spain, Portugal and Argentina This week we will try a variety of wine including three whites and three reds from Spain, Portugal and Argentina. They are imported by various companies including Grapes of Spain, Bourgeois Family Selections, William Harrison Imports and Lunau USA. The whites are light, fresh and aromatic, while the reds are a…
This week we will sample six wines that will be presented in pairs and tasted in a compare/contrast manner. Specifically these will include two white Burgundies from different appellations that are made by Domaine Roger Luquet, two Valpolicellas made by Tenuta Sant’Antonio, a “classic” and Ripasso, and two 10-year old tawny ports from different producers, Warre’s and Taylor Fladgate. In…
This week we will sample six wines that will be presented in pairs and tasted in a compare/contrast manner. Specifically these will include two white Burgundies from different appellations that are made by Domaine Roger Luquet, two Valpolicellas made by Tenuta Sant’Antonio, a “classic” and Ripasso, and two 10-year old tawny ports from different producers, Warre’s and Taylor Fladgate. In…