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2008 Chris Ringland Cote Rotie Shiraz
Retail: $21.99 Your Cost $18
92 points Wine Advocate (Parker)
This is the third vintage of Chris Ringland Cote Rotie Shiraz. The 2008 was sourced from 20-60 year old Barossa vines and aged in seasoned American oak hogsheads. Deep purple-colored, it emits a captivating, already complex nose of smoke, incense, Asian spices, and blueberry. Velvety-textured, intense, full-bodied, and powerful on the palate, this rich effort will drink well for another 8-10 years. It is a steal at the modest asking price.
2007 Louis Martini Sonoma Cabernet Sauvignon
Retail: $14.99Your Cost: $12
90 points Wine Advocate
I am also including their 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Sonoma, a 290,000-case blend of 92% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest the other Bordeaux varietals. An exquisite value, this is a seductive, fleshy, fruity wine with excellent texture, body, and balance. Lots of cassis as well as silky tannins characterize this top bargain pick! Drink it over the next 5-7 years.
2005 Kunde Zinfandel
Retail: $15.99Your Cost: $13
88 Wine & Spirits Magazine
“Pretty floral, eucalyptus and cherry scents introduce this sweet zin. The texture is thick. To match barbeque with a spicy rub.”
White Burgundy
2006 Joseph Drouhin Chablis 1er Cru Montmains
Retail: $38Your Price: $30
90 Wine Advocate
The Drouhin 2006 Chablis Montmains offers fresh lime with smoky and overtly chalky adjuncts. While it does not display tremendous complexity, it is impeccably pure in its citrus and pit fruit, and intensely mineral in its chalk and crushed stone character. Like so many Drouhin wines, this one is an impeccable model of balance and restraint yet impressively long-finishing. It should reward 3-5 years of cellaring. Drouhin is especially well-positioned in the grand cru Vaudesir, including a share of the small tongue of this site that dips down to the river. 12 bottles available
2006 Jean Chartron Chassagne Montrachet Benoites
Retail: $60 Your Cost: $43
90 Wine Spectator
Plenty of lime and mineral notes course through the sleek frame of this linear white Burgundy, which is bright and balanced, building to a nice toasty aftertaste. Drink now through 2014. 175 cases made. 3 cases available
2007 Jean Chartron Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru La Pucelle
Retail: $95 Your Cost: $70
91 Wine Spectator
Lemon cake, toast and spice aromas and flavors are punctuated by vibrant acidity. Balanced on the sharp side, but with everything in the right proportion. Fine length. Best from 2011 through 2022. 400 cases made. 5 cases available
2006 Jean Chartron Puligny Montrachet Clos du Cailleret
Retail: $120Your Price: $82
91 Wine Spectator
The rich butterscotch attack signals this open, appealing white. As it settles in, hazelnut, toast, citrus, saline and mineral elements emerge. Fine length. Drink now through 2016. 275 cases made
4 cases available
2007 Joseph Drouhin Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru “les Folatiers”
Retail: $95Your Price: $75
92 points Wine Advocate
Intriguingly fusil and animal notes in the nose of Drouhin’s 2007 Puligny-Montrachet Folatieres mingle with high-toned suggestions of pit fruit, herbal, and floral distillates. This comes onto the palate with luscious white peach and yellow plum; Chablis-reminiscent herbed, salted poultry stock; and a gentle creaminess of texture, leading to an arguably understated, yet long, refined, fascinating finish. Here is a striking example of a 2007 that exhibits not only vivacity but a buoyancy, clarity and nuance that were missing from its (admittedly also successful) 2006 counterpart. The new oak component is here nowhere in evidence whereas it was prominent in the 2006 at the same stage. This exhibit of Burgundian elegance and hints of mystery should be worth pursuing from bottle for at least the next 5-6 years. 12 bottles available
2007 Bachelet-Monnot Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru “les Folatieres
Retail: $110Your Price: $85
90 Wine Advocate
Tasted in London at Justerini & Brooks. I have a lot of time for a well-crafted Folatières of which this is certainly one. A lovely floral nose wafts from the glass, lovely definition with peach and apricot. Very well balanced on the palate, cohesive and elegant with a lingering minerally finish. Excellent. Drink 2010-2016. Tasted January 2009.-Wine Advocate
RED BURGUNDY
2005 Domaine Jessiaume Beaune Cent Vignes 1er Cru
Retail: $50Your Price: $38
91 Wine Spectator
A delicious display of fruit, evoking black cherry, plum, raspberry and oak spice notes. Pure, silky and graceful, with a firm, bright, lingering aftertaste of berries and mineral. Best from 2012 through 2024. 241 cases made. 12 bottles available
2005 Domaine Jessiaume Santenay Gravieres 1er Cru
Retail: $45 Your Cost: $34
90 Wine Spectator
A black pepper aroma leads to black cherry and blackberry flavors in this round red. Has solid tannins and a lively profile, so give it a few years to regain its balance. Best from 2011 through 2018. 1,541 cases made. 60 bottles available
2006 Joseph Drouhin Gevrey Chambertin
Retail: $49Your Price: $37
90 Wine Advocate
Vivid black cherry underlain by charred meat set the key themes for Drouhin’s 2006 Gevrey-Chambertin, which offers subtly creamy, mouth-filling generosity allied to a good sense of finishing grip, in which roasted meat, char, chalk, and cherry pit prominently figure. This manages to exhibit a wide tonal range, with especially prominent bass notes, yet remain supple, elegant, and even refreshing. Most of the fruit for this outstanding village wine came from parcels high up on the Combe de Lavaux west if town. I would feel free to follow it for 4-5 years, and as its production (nearly 3,000 cases) is huge by Burgundy standards, it ought not to be difficult to latch onto. 11 cases available
2006 Bouchard Pere & Fils Beaune Teurons
Retail: $68.99Your Price: $53
90 Wine Advocate
The Bouchard 2006 Beaune Teurons features tart, fruit-skin dominated flavors of plum and red currant tinged with brown spices and sea salt. Savory, refined, and transparent to considerable nuance of mineral, spice, herbal, and meaty elements, this may disappoint some tasters for its near-delicacy, but it finishes with convincing, complex persistence. I would expect it to reward 4-6 years of attention. 48 bottles
2005 Jean Chartron Puligny Montrachet Cailleret Rouge
Retail: $68Your Cost: $52
90 Wine Spectator
A delicate, raspberry- and currant-laced red, this is beautifully balanced and focused. Long and succulent, with a distinctive finish of cinnamon and mineral. Drink now through 2015. 25 cases imported 3 cases available
Lucien Boillot Nuits St Georges “Les Pruiliers” 2006
Retail: $95Your Price: $68
94 Wine Advocate
From (per an official record) 97 year-old vines, Boillot’s 2006 Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Pruliers came, remarkably, not from his family inheritance, but from a retiring Nuits-St.-Georges grower. Boillot didn’t have much money then, so he arranged for a share-cropping and sweat equity deal. “I looked at these old decrepit vines in 1985,” he relates, “and thought to myself, ‘this will be the last and only vintage from them.’” The result, says Boillot, was the best wine he had ever made, so that was the last time he entertained the thought of ripping these vines. Cassis and blueberry are dusted with brown spices and wreathed with musky, daffodil-like perfume. This combines intense richness with a clear, juicy, buoyant fruit character through which floral and mineral nuances waft and glimmer. The tannins here are extraordinarily fine and the finish engenders involuntary salivation and cravings for the next sip. Plan on relishing this beauty over the next dozen or more years. My first visit to taste here convinced me that this address and Pierre Boillot’s talent should be known to all Burgundy lovers. Pierre Boillot lays great store by lees enrichment, never bottling before the second spring, and then without filtration. 36 bottles available
2006 Robert Chevillon Nuits St George “ Les Pruliers
Retail: $84Your Price: $65
91 Wine Advocate
Black raspberry and plum, along with toasted pecan scent the Chevillon 2006 Nuits-St.-Georges Pruliers, which then comes to the palate with more restrained sweetness of fruit and more overt suggestions of minerality - wet stone and iodine - than other Chevillon 2006s. Firmness of tannin is noticeable here, but unlike with the Perrieres, that does not dry or coarsen the finish. This will benefit from a couple of years in bottle, I’m sure, and ought to then be worth following for at least another half dozen. 19 bottles available
2006 Robert Chevillon Nuits St George “les Bousselots:”
Retail: $84Your Price: $65
90 Wine Advocate
The Chevillon 2006 Nuits-St.-Georges Les Bousselots mingles ripe blackberry and cherry with brown spices, coconut, and chocolate; offers a richly-fruited and pliable palate impression; then finishes with a welcome suggestion of fresh berry cut and berry skin tartness as well as intimations of mineral and carnal dimensions. For now, it advances only modestly beyond the enormous pleasure (coupled with minimal intrigue) that are to be derived from the corresponding (”old vines”) village bottling - the one-third new barrel here explain much of the difference - and I would similarly anticipate this remaining accessible short term and fresh for at least a half dozen years. 35 cases exported. 24 bottles available
2007 Domaine Dugat-Py Gevrey Chambertin Vielles Vignes
Retail: $130Your Cost: $90
94 Wine Spectator
Nice density provides a backdrop for the black cherry, black currant and violet aromas and flavors in this silky red, which has a sappy quality midpalate without being heavy or extracted. There’s fine grip on the licorice- and sandalwood-infused aftertaste. Best from 2012 through 2020. 20 cases imported. 4 cases available
2007 Domaine Dugat-Py Gevrey Chambertin Vielles Vignes “Coeur du Roy”
Retail: $150/bottleYour Cost: $120
91-93 Burghound 88-90 Wine Advocate
Tasted at the Domaine. This has a more generous nose than the Evocelles with more limestone element coming through with raspberry sorbet, glacier cherry and cassis. Good definition. The palate is pure with good weight, with layers of sappy black fruits, though I would have liked more definition towards the finish. Fine. Drink now-2015. Tasted November 2008.-Wine Advocate
6 cases available
2007 Domaine Dugat-Py Pommard “le Levriere” Vielles Vignes
Retail: $160/bottlesYour Cost: $130
90 Wine Spectator
Black cherry and blackberry flavors are draped on a well-toned frame in this modern-style red. Though fruity, there’s still the texture, earth and mineral of the appellation. Fine length. Best from 2011 through 2017. 25 cases imported. 3 cases available
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