Total: 21 items
Abeja Chardonnay
Even in a high acid vintage such as 2008, this is rich, almost oily, a full-throttle wine well-endowed with a full-bodied fruit flavor.Though 50% new oak is used, the barrels are bigger (92 gallons instead of 55) which reduces the toastiness. A wine that wi...
Washington • 2008 • 750 ml
Bodegas Castano Solanera
The 2009 Solanera is a blend of 60% Monastrell, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 20% Garnacha Tintorera aged in 500-liter French oak. It is a savory, elegant, already complex offering with layered black fruits, excellent volume, and a fruit-filled finish. Drink ...
Spain • 2009 • 750 ml
Bollinger Special Cuvee Brut Champagne
There's a slight grain to the texture and this bubbly is all the better for it, lending a pleasing assertiveness to the peach, candied citrus, spice and graphite notes. It's all backed by a firm acidity and a chalky finish. 91 Points Wine Spectator #34 ...
Champagne • Non Vintage • 750 ml
Borsao "Tres Picos" Garnacha
The 2009 Tres Picos is a worthy successor to the string of splendid vintages which have preceded it. Heady black cherry and blackberry aromas, Asian spices, incense, and mineral notes lead to a dense, layered, rich old-vine Garnacha that over-delivers in a ...
Spain • 2009 • 750 ml
Calera Central Coast Pinot Noir
The 2009 Pinot Noir bursts from the glass with expressive red fruit, flowers, spices and mint. It shows lovely mid-palate juiciness and an elegant, polished finish. 92 Points WIne Advocate
California • 2009 • 750 ml
Casa Lapostolle Cuvee Alexandre Carmenere
Bright purple. Blackcurrant, graphite, mocha and sexy oak on the nose. Lush and sweet, with attractive spiciness to the flavors of red and dark berries and cocoa powder. Pliant, smooth and impressively focused carmenere, finishing with sweet tannins and lov...
Chile • 2009 • 750 ml
Chidaine "Clos Habert" Montlouis Chenin Blanc
Chidaine's 2009 Montlouis Clos Habert smells scintillatingly of lime, tangerine, pink grapefruit, honeysuckle, heliotrope, and diverse hedge flowers. Subtly creamy in texture, and with a persistently billowing sense of floral perfume and buoyancy that belie...
France • 2009 • 750 ml
Condado De Haza Ribera Del Duero
Condado de Haza, part of the Pesquera group, focuses its production on a hillside vineyard of gravel and limestone, planted towards the end of the 1980s by Alejandro Fernбndez. The vines tend to give wines of great concentration and aging potential—like ...
Spain • 2007 • 750 ml
Deumayen "Trez" Malbec Reserva
A glass-coating opaque purple color, it offers up an alluring nose of spice box, mineral, smoke, and black cherry. Medium-bodied and elegant on the palate, it is mouth-coating, savory, and concentrated. Give it 2-3 years to fully blossom and drink it from 2...
Argentina • 2007 • 750 ml
Foxglove Chardonnay
The 2010 Chardonnay is one of the top values in California wine. It possesses tons of ripe, varietal fruit in a style that is quite rich but not heavy. Clean citrus and floral notes add freshness on the long finish. Lees stirring gives the wine much of its ...
California • 2010 • 750 ml
