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Brundlmayer: The Greatest Whites You’ve Never Tried 8-26-24

Brundlmayer
 
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We love how excited sommeliers and Austrian wine fans get when they see our selections. Outside of liter bottles of lightly sparkling GVs (which are delicious), there’s not a lot of serious Austrian wines that make it to American shelves.

That’s why it seems shocking to point out that Austrian winemakers produce some of the greatest wines made anywhere in the world. They count among their ranks such luminaries as FX Pichler, Gobelsburg, Nikolaihof, and Brundlmayer.
 
Despite the love of diehard fans, the wines don’t receive the attention they deserve. Were these from France, these biodynamic, single-vineyard, Grand Cru, food-friendly, cellar-worthy, and ridiculously underpriced gems from thousand-year-old wineries would be three times as expensive. These are the best value in luxury whites in the world.
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Bordeaux: Broader Than The Banks Sale 8-25-24

 
Chateau Suduiraut in Sauternes

For the last few Sundays we’re gone deep into the Vinopolis Cellar to bring you great discounted prices of amazing Bordeaux wines. What people don’t know is that Bordeaux produces almost 900 million bottles of wine annually, a quantity that dwarfs any other fine wine growing region in the world. The region is far more complex, rich with winemaking diversity, and value driven than consumers realize.  As we’ve put these wines on sale it’s become clear how much more Bordeaux we should all be drinking given the immense quality that persists across all price bands and appellations in the region.

This week we’re continuing by featuring wines that reside outside the typical bounds of the “Left and Right Banks”.
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Produttori in August Sale 8-24-24

“I’ve written this many times before, but it bears repeating: Produttori del Barbaresco is one of Italy’s ultimate values for your money.” –Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
 
Produttori del Barbaresco:
 
The OG Cult Wine of Portland
 
Produttori del Barbaresco is revered for producing classically-styled Barbaresco and Riservas of uncompromising quality and transparency. You’d be hard-pressed to find such consistent quality and complexity out of such an extensive range of single-vineyard Nebbiolos anywhere else.
 
Oregon was the first state to import the wines, and they’ve been beloved by many for decades. We’ve admired the producer and its director, Aldo Vacca (cousin of the late Renato Vacca of Cantina del Pino), since the shop first opened. We’ve pleased to continue to offer some of Barbaresco’s finest line up.
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Vinopolis Newsletter 8-23-24

 In This Newsletter:


Special Arrivals
Domaine Dagueneau

New Arrivals
Beaux Freres, Pax Muhle, Falkenstein, and more!

New Close-Out Wine Sale
Value pricing for two of our favorite wineries

The New World, Elevated
High Altitude Wines in North America
Special Arrivals


Domaine Didier Dagueneau
 

“Tasting a Dagueneau wine for the first time was a revelation. His Sauvignon Blancs had an unexpected purity and clarity to them. The flavors were intense but nuanced. It wasn’t the fruit that was piercing, as in so many Sauvignon Blancs, but the freshness and the focus. As powerful a personality as he was, his wines did not exalt the stature of the winemaker so much as the beauty of the terroir.” –Polaner Imports
 
Didier Dagueneau was known as a man who always flew close to the Sun and never succumbed to danger.
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Paging Dr. Burklin-Wolf to the Salesfloor! 8-22-24

Dr. Burklin-Wolf
 
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The German wine region the Pfalz is nestled between the Haardt Mountains and the Rhine River. Here, in a veritable oasis of forests and hills, one finds evidence of wine making and consumption dating back to 550 BCE. The region’s conditions make for some of the most interesting and diverse expressions of German wine, with dry Riesling being its crown jewel.
 
It’s an open secret that dry German Riesling is one of the most complex white wines in the world, yet is also one of the most undervalued. There exist today some historic and well-respected producers that can turn heads and hearts without turning your wallet inside-out. One such estate is the innovative Dr.
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