FREE GROUND SHIPPING ON 6 OR MORE BOTTLES Vinous Media: The 2015 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Grosso Sanese is a powerful, brooding wine. A rush of sweet red cherry and floral notes appears first as the Grosso Sanese shows off its personality. The...
Tasting Notes: This wine has an elegant bouquet of black cherry, tea leaf, a slight caramel note, and lighter red fruit aromas. On the palate the wine has a delicate touch, with more flavors of red fruit, earth, and a long lasting savory quality.
Winemaker Notes This wine has a deep garnet color with purplish hues. The first nose is complex and after a slight aeration it releases aromas of stewed small black fruits and candied cherry. On the palate, we detect a nice acidity with well-present...
PRIMA Notes: Joseph Cattin’s ‘Cuvee Tradition’ Pinot Noir. Cattin is the largest family-owned concern in Alsace. They been producing wines since 1720 and the current generation of Cattin here is its twelfth! Most of...
And now for something completely different! Monovarietal Bordeaux is fairly rare, but wines made from exclusively Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot or even Cabernet Franc are not unheard of. ...
Regular Price $68, Last 29 Bottles $44.99 with shipping included on 4 bottles or more No. That’s not a typo. This is a nine-year-old bottle of Barolo from the famous Ravera MGA in Novello for $45! As I like to say, better to be...
Brandon said ‘let’s put something a few really sexy things on this list.’ OK- how about Smith-Haut Lafitte’s stunning 2018 Graves and Doreau’s sturdy, flavor-packed Pommard? The former is a stunner- a glamourous red...
PRIMA Notes: Created at Domaine La Bastide Saint Dominique by famed winemaker Eric Bonnet, this is precisely the kind of wine that sets the Chateauneuf du Pape appellation apart from the rest of the Cotes du Rhone villages; the extra horsepower,...
PRIMA Notes: We’ve already featured a few stellar examples from the appellation like Oddero’s and the Titon from L’Armangia that really rung our chimes, but we’re particularly in love with Guido Berta’s 2015 Nizza, a...
Winemaker NotesFine bubbles which rise slowly, persistent mousse. Straw-colored. A nose of ripe pear with some touches of cut hay. Full fruit, but clean in the mouth. This cuvée contains 40% Pinot Meunier, 30% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay. All wines...
PRIMA Notes: Bourgogne Epineuil Rouge (the only red appellation possible here as there’s no such thing as Chablis Rouge) from the high-altitude Cote de Grisey, an austere, virtually top-soilless site universally considered to be the top spot...
Importer's Notes: A unique sparkling rosé from Savoie. Made using the 'methode ancestrale' with whole grape fermentation and indigenous yeasts. Strong aromatic expression of red fruits. Fresh, lively and festive. Off-dry.
I wasn’t at all familiar with Elio Sandri’s Cascina Disa wines until, about six or seven years ago, a bottle of his 2004 Perno Riserva Barolo was opened for me by a winemaker friend in the Langhe who called Elio one of the best Old School...
As a person, Carole Doyard is truly engaging so it’s not surprising that her wines reflect her effervescent personality and ‘joie de vivre’. On the other hand, she is a serious and accomplished winemaker who makes pure,...
Domaine le Clos des Lumières is a 50-hectare family farm founded in 1946 by the grandfather of the domaine’s current vigneron, Gerald Serrano. The ambitious, talented Serrano was the first to actually bottle wine here rather than sell...
The Petit is blended from around 40% Cabernet Sauvignon and a similar amount of Merlot (a portion of which dates from the 1850s) and the rest old vine Cabernet Franc and an ancient clone of Petit Verdot; it’s a gorgeously glossy red whose glorious...
Jeb Dunnuck: A blend of 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Petit Verdot and the balance Cabernet Franc and Merlot, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Artist Series reveals a deeper ruby/purple color as well as loads of black fruits, tobacco leaf, cured meats,...
We love second label Bordeaux- already a great deal, we’ve made this top-notch but drinkable Saint Estephe a stone cold bargain! Drink now or hold up to a decade.
It’s Maison Saint AIX’s absolutely perfect balance between its elegantly expressed, copious red fruit and watermelon, and the wine’s clean, vibrant, natural tasting acidity. Nothing stands out yet it all stands out: its...
(80% Pinot Noir, 20% Chardonnay (10% Pinot Noir still wine) Based on 2017 harvest,plus reserve wine 36 months en tirage) Laetitia Billiot is the fourth generation to estate-bottle Champagnes at this domaine in the Grand Cru Village of Ambonnay...
Winery Notes: With one eye on the past while boldly looking to the future, roots as deep as the wrinkles furrowing a forehead capture the shy smile on the face of the farmer as he lovingly describes that special vineyard, that micro zone or that micro...
What do you do when your spouse insists on great White Burgundy but you’re too cheap to spend an arm and a leg to keep peace in the family? The obvious answer is to buy Macon Village and lie about the price. With a wine like the 2020...
Winery Notes: The six hectare Monprivato vineyard is beautifully situated facing southwest, in the town of Castiglione Falletto. The Mascarellos now own all of Monprivato (having purchased small plots from a couple of neighbors in the period...
Professional RatingsDecanter - 93 pointsBeautiful depth, density and complexity, and a lovely spice, along with softer touches of floral aromatics. Successfully holds juice and tension through the palate. A clear feeling of family relation to its bigger...
2015 Joseph Swan Pinot Noir, Great Oak Vineyard, Russian River Valley, Sonoma County We love Old School Pinot Noir and I doubt it will ever get any better than this nine-year-old classic! Joseph Swan is one producer whose...
Raspberry and red fruits with licorice, augmented by a delicate mineral component. In the mouth it is still quite structured but has a warm, inviting mid palate characterized by ripe red and black fruits and notes of black pepper, licorice and dried...
Winery Notes: Red garnet color with orange glints. Elegant and intense on the nose with notes of blackcurrants, pomegranate, raspberries and rose petal. On the palate, the wine showcases good structure, a full body, and velvety tannins.
The Spanish wines of Catalonian Montsant suffer from an inferiority crisis thanks to their neighbors up the hill in Priorat. Priorat occupies the high ground- both literally and figuratively- thanks to its unique high-altitude setting and...
PRIMA Notes: There is, of course, no shortage of great wine in Italy these days, but the list of true icons- your Rinaldis, Gajas, Ornellaias and the like- is still a short, rarified one. Somewhere very near the top of that list must be Emidio Pepe...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate 95 Points: Introducing the 2015 Barolo Arione. This is the first vintage produced of the newest wine to join the extended and ever-evolving Conterno portfolio. Only three oak casks were produced: the one I tasted from...
2015 Oddero Barolo Bussia Soprana Vigna Mondoca Riserva Wine Advocate: Here's a wine that brings on the best of the 2015 vintage. This growing season that will be remembered for sunshine and warmth is distinguished by rich and...
Importer's Notes: This 0.51-hectare vineyard is a direct continuation of Maranges' Clos Roussots, divided only by the Maranges premier cru Clos de la Boutières. Vines average 30 years of age, and the oak treatment is in 2nd and 3rd use...
PRIMA Notes: The Les Vaumuriens is a north-east facing vineyard located to the west of the village of Pommard, planted in the limestone-marl soil that gives French Burgundies their complex extraction and intriguing finesse. Being slightly...
Importer's Notes: Produced from equal parts of these varietals, the fruit for this wine comes from Chidaine’s estate-grown, bio-dynamically farmed vineyards located just north of the Cher river between the villages of Montrichard &...
PRIMA Notes: The nv Gosset Brut Grande Reserve Brut is a blend of 45% Chardonnay, 45% Pinot Noir and 10% Pinot Meunier, aged for three years on the lees and finished with 7g/liter, tilting it toward the drier end of the spectrum. The...
This cuvée is one of Carole’s signature wines, designed to express the essential character of Chardonnay grown on the chalky hillsides of Vertus in the Côte des Blancs. The wine has brilliant precision in its structure, coming on...
The ’15 Barolo Romirasco weds opulence with energy, intensity with focus, and lushness with liveliness--it’s a wonderful wine that celebrates the ripeness of its vintage with polish and sophistication. Luscious red and blue fruits burst from...
2015 Rio Sordo Rio Sordo is one of the best Cru sites in Barbaresco. The vineyard faces southwest, allowing the Nebbiolo vines to soak in the sun and reach optimal ripeness. The soils are primarily a mix of calcareous marl...
Jean-Francois Coche-Dury is regarded as one of the greatest winemakers on the planet, additionally acquiring the moniker “The King of Meursault” from Jancis Robinson. Procuring one of these is next to impossible as they quite often are...
PRIMA Notes: The 2015 Crozes-Hermitage featured here, Cuvée Ghany (named after their first-born son), is 100% Syrah, grown in the clay, limestone and rocky soils that are typical for this particular part of the appellation. Fermented and...
PRIMA Notes: Our quest for true value in Burgundy usually takes us to the more southern extremes of the appellation- the Macon, Chalon or Beaujolais regions for instance, but these two beauties hail, instead, from Burgundy’s northernmost...
Les Parcellaires de Saulx is a focused micro-négociant launched in 2017. It was founded on the site of the centuries old Manoir des Grands Bourgognes in Meursault. • The first priority of the new company was to retain the services of Isabelle...
(66% Chardonnay, 24% Pinot Noir, barrel fermented, no malo-lactic fermentation or filtration, dosage 5g/liter, disgorged October 2019)David Coutelas comes from a family of vignerons dating back to the 18th century. The house is in Villers-sous-Chatillon...
The 2020 Aldo Conterno Barolos are an impressive group- it was a vintage that truly favored Monforte d’Alba in general and Bussia specifically, and these will be particularly long-lived wines while being quite approachable while still young. It’s an...
The 2015 Barolo is a soft, easygoing wine to drink now and over the next few years, while the red berry and floral notes remain fresh. Alberto Burzi crafts this wine from a collection of parcels in La Morra.