Category Archives: Newsletter Archive

Conterno: The Last Name in Barolo 9-12-24

¡Three Conternos!
 

Unlock Your Savings
 
On Our In-Stock Selections From

 
Giacomo Conterno
Aldo Conterno
Conterno Fantino

 
The Conterno name is beloved in Barolo. There are six producers that share it, with varying degrees of relation. Today, we’re featuring three that best represent a spectrum of traditional to modern-leaning while sharing a dedication to quality. Explore what makes each so special and combine to maximize your savings!
 
Giacomo Conterno
 
Giacomo Conterno wines are highly limited but well worth the hunt. These are among the top tier of wines being produced in all of Italy. The wines are always powerful and traditional, but with an elegance and grace that seems to transcend the immediate impact of flavor and leave you searching for descriptors to capture what you’ve tasted.  
Read the rest

Vinopolis Newsletter 9-11-2024

 In This Newsletter:


Arrivals
Andrea Occhipinti, Krug, Veuve Clicquot, and more!

Wineries We Love
Crowley Wines: Wine Enthusiast gets Enthused

Vini Vidi Vino
3 Vini di Contrada from Arianna Occhipinti

 
Arriving Friday
 

Arianna Occhipinti
 

 
Arianna Occhipinti is a Rockstar.  As a woman in a male dominated industry and as a Sicilian, her rise to international acclaim seemed unlikely just a few decades ago.
 
Sicily is hardly the place you would imagine as the launching pad for a natural wine wunderkind. Quite economically depressed, Sicily offers low wages and Italy’s worst unemployment rate to its residents and its population has been declining as many young people leave to seek prosperity on the mainland. In choosing to stay in her homeland and stake her future there, Arianna Occhipinti might have seemed at a disadvantage, but with the number of abandoned farms on the Island, she also found opportunity.
Read the rest

September French Magnums Sale 9-11-24

Vinopolis French Magnum Sale:
 

Unlock Your Savings Now
 
We offer 67 options (321 bottles in all) ready to go home with you.
 
5% off any 3-5 in-stock French magnums/large formats
10% off any 6 or more in-stock French magnums/large formats

 
Discount will not display online or in your cart,
We will adjust your invoice before processing your charge.

 
Sale ends Saturday, September 14th at 9 am Pacific.
 
We offer sixty-seven French magnums options on sale now, including:
 
Champagne
 
This Vinopolis house Champagne is ready to make a splash at your next event… a really BIG splash
Andre Clouet Silver Grand Cru Blanc de Noirs Brut Nature NV 3L Displayed Price: $279, that’s $265.05 at 5% off and $251.10 at 10% off, 15 double-magnums in stock now
Stephan Reinhardt-Wine Advocate 92+ points

 
This is the only listing in the USA today for the 3L!
Read the rest

Peter Lauer: Satisfying Saar Sale 9-10-24

“This is the Saar and Florian Lauer is currently one of the greatest winemakers in this sacred place… Employing natural-yeast fermentations, Lauer’s wines find their own balance. They tend to be more textural, deeper and more masculine. They have a preternatural sense of balance, an energy that is singular.
“Yet the hallmarks of the Saar are there: purity, precision, rigor, mineral.” – Vom Boden
 
Peter Lauer: Electric Riesling
 

Your Three-Day Discount Starts Now
 
Lauer makes some of the most singular, brilliant wines in the world. His wines have all the raciness, tension and electricity of standard Mosel Riesling compressed into an explosive intensity. It’s as though his wines are diamonds—beautiful, complex and dazzling, but with an incomparable density and infinitely edge. 
Read the rest

Nikolaihof: Wonder of the Wachau Sale 9-9-24

Nikolaihof: Wonder of the Wachau
 

Your Three-Day Discount Starts Now
 
Nikolaihof is a giant of Austrian wine—a producer whose history and quality are unrivaled even in a country full of esteemed producers. As Austria’s oldest operating winery, that history dates back to Roman times. Records first note winemaking occurring at the estate in 470, and the Saahs family has run the property for well over a century.
 
Much like how estates operated in previous centuries, Nikolaihof is farmed under polyculture, producing everything from honey to cut flowers in addition to wine. It was the first winery in the world to fully convert to farming biodynamically, having done so in the 1970s, a surprisingly easy task as no modern farming chemicals have touched the estate’s vines.
Read the rest