Independent bottlers like Alexander Murray & Co. offer interesting expressions of distilleries often unfound in the United States. This quarter, Just A Taste snatched up a special bottling of 16 year Dailuaine for our Dram Club members.
Just A Taste Jefferson and Discover Wine Clubs experience the young rising star of Burgundy, Pierre Girardin, with his Pommard Les Vignots 2018 and Bourgogne Vieilles Vignes 2018.
This month we’re sipping on some Zolo wines.
It is near impossible to find exquisite Barolo under $100 a bottle. Near impossible. However, Marcarini delivers with their 2016 “La Morra” Barolo.
A dynamic duo of wine innovators deliver a delicacy from Mendoza’s high-elevation Gualtallary subzone: Alejandro Vigil, Argentina’s most reputable winemaker, and Adrianna Catena, youngest heiress of the Bodega Catena Zapata lineage, collaborated on this month’s feature, Gran Enemigo 2016, an inspiring blend of Malbec, Cabernet, and Petit Verdot.
Barolo is often considered The Wine of Kings, partly because it takes years or decades to mature, and partly due to its price. However, just 10 miles north of Barolo is Roero. Here, Malvira produces a lovely Nebbiolo Riserva that was conveniently aged in their cellars before presenting to you! Perhaps it IS possible to have your cake and eat it too.
This month we feature two bold wines from Porter & Plot, a custom label wine produced by Winc.
January features wines from Lake County, California. Lake County is a tad inland, so the grapes produce rich and fruit-forward wines. Both of these wines offer tremendous value for their overall taste and feature a California classic, Chardonnay, as well as a crowd-pleasing red blend.
A rendezvous with two men, brothers, who for twenty five years have quietly been pushing the boundaries in Champagne…
Simply put, Pet-Nats are my new favorite wines to hunt down and are quickly becoming one of the next big wine trends. Once you sip this, you’ll understand why…