Red Wine

Ten year old wines usually show their, well, age. Wines from cooperatives can be very middling. Many wines from Puglia are ponderous because weather is warm and overripens grapes. Yet, every now and then a wine turns your head and upends all of your preju

Principally Tempranillo, with small amounts of Garnacha, Mazuelo, and Graciano, this 2012 Reserva is medium+ bodied with lush and lively red fruit complementing chewy tannins and fresh acidity.

Brown Estate Chaos Theory Red Blend Napa Valley 2019

It is a treat to be able to find aged Bordeaux available for purchase in a wine store. Usually you would need to purchase it young and cellar it yourself, so this is a rarity. Chante Alouette Cormeil is located a little over a mile from the lovely medieva

The Vajra family is highly regarded in the wine community for their hand-crafted Piedmontese wines including the standards; Dolcetto, Barbera, Barolo and Nebbiolo among others. But as much as we love the 'big boys' they produce, we have a special fondness

Wine discovery comes in three levels of excitement: There’s the rare, expensive and exclusive wine, which most of us can only hope to taste at a wine event or through the generosity of a collector. There’s the easier-to-find small-production bottle that r

Margaux and value are not words normally found anywhere near each other. A rare exception is Chateau Les Barraillots, a family owned producer located between several famous classified growths in the heart of the village of Margaux. A recently inducted mem

Esporao Reserva Tinto 2019

Valle delle Stelle, “Valley of the Stars,” paints a complete picture of this sweeping valley vineyard where these two classic Bordeaux varietals grow with the influence of cool Mediterranean nights & hot Tuscan days. In glass, the wine is deeply hued and

Populis Reversée Mendocino (Carignane, Pinot Noir, Zinfandel) 2020

Ettore Germano Barbera d’ Alba 2020

Montenidoli Chianti Colli Senesi “il Garrulo” 2019

Like the vast majority of Bordeaux, this is a blend – in this case Merlot (60%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (40%) with an average vine age of the thirty (30) years. The wine is fermented and aged in temperature-controlled vats (no oak on this one) and is bottl

Ottouve Gragnano Sorrentina 2020

Australian Mick Craven, of Craven Wines fame, scoped out the Western Cape of South Africa for promising wine-growing sites and produced his first vintage in 2017. A reference to the storied tumult of the waters around the Southern reach of Africa, Storm P

Cristom Pinot Noir Mt. Jefferson Willamette Valley 2019

Edmond Cornu Ladoix 2014

The Dude Napa Valley 2020

In the glass purple and garnet reflections frame a dark crimson core. Black cherry, blackberry liqueur, fresh boysenberry and currants infuse the nose, complimented by notes of graphite and violets. On the palate, ripe plum, leather, tobacco, cedar, cocoa

La Antigua is produced from high elevation vineyards located in the Sierra de la Demanda area of the Rioja appellation. This terrain here is almost impossible to mechanize, and all vineyard work on the estate is done by hand. The result is wine of precisi