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Vinopolis Newsletter – Arriving This Week 5-21-24

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Bonny Doon and Spanish history in a bottle

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Your Guide to the Grill… PLUS a value from Cayuse
 
Arriving This Week
 
 
Bonny Doon Vineyard.

 
 
  
 
One of the pioneers of Rhône-styled wines in the United States as well as an early champion of terroir focused winemaking and Biodynamic viticulture, Bonny Doon Vineyard is a true original. Despite bringing a serious attitude to the quality of their wines, they were also pioneers in distancing themselves from the stuffy culture around fine wine with humorous labels, and flippant nameing conventions. This wine, “Le Cigare Volant,” for example, a Grenache dominant blend which has remained one of the most solid domestic Rhône blends for decades now, is a reference to and parody of, a law establish in the 1950’s prohibiting UFOs (known as “Flying Cigars” in France) from landing within the boundaries of Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
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Brundlmayer @ Deepest Discount & Close-Out Mosel 5-20-24

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Bründlmayer
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Vinopolis Close-Out Sale Featurette: Thanisch
 


Bründlmayer
 
Your Three-Day Discount Starts Now
 
Somms and Austrian wine fans get EXCITED when they see our selections. That joy is what we live for.
 
It’s a shocking statement 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, and Nikolaihof. But despite the love of diehard fans, the wines don’t always get the attention they deserve. If these wines came from France, those biodynamic, single-vineyard, Grand Cru, food-friendly, and ridiculously underpriced gems from thousand-year-old wineries would they be three times as expensive. These are the source of the best value high end whites in the world.
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Jaboulet 3 Day Sale! 5-1924

 

On offer today in our Sunday sale release is a winery which is known the world over. Founded in 1834 by Antoine Jaboulet, the Jaboulet Aine brand quickly established itself as a producer of exceptional quality syrah based wines, and a beacon for the quality that the Northern Rhone possesses. The Flagship wine of the estate is the Hermitage La Chapelle, named after the small Saint Christophe chapel that overlooks the vineyards on top of Hermitage hill. The place itself is steeped in historical heritage stemming all the way back to the Albigensian Crusades. As the legend goes, a knight named Gaspard de Stérimberg returned home wounded in 1224 from the crusades and was granted permission  to build a small shelter to recover in on the hill, where he remained living as a hermit.… Read the rest

Grand Rosé Sale 5-18-24

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Grand Rosé Sale
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Vinopolis Close-Out Sale Featurette: Close-Out Case Deals
 

 
Grand Rosé Sale
 
Your Three-Day Discount Starts Now
 
Spring is in full swing with our three-day sale on all in-stock, non-sparkling rosé!
 
5% off any 6-11 bottles of in-stock non-sparkling rosé wines
10% off any 12+ bottles of in-stock non-sparkling rosé wines
 
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Discount ends Tuesday, May 21st at 9 am Pacific
 
We offer 73 in-stock rosé wines, including:
 
Staff favorite!
Ameztoi Rubentis Rosado, Getariako Txakolina 2022 750ml Displayed Price: $24, that’s $22.80 at 5% off and $21.60 at 10% off, 36+ bottles in stock now
De Maison importer note “The iconic Ameztoi Rubentis rosé is a field blend of the local, indigenous hondarrabi zuri and hondarrabi beltza varieties, grown on traditional trellises high on the slopes rising above Getaria, an ancient Basque fishing village on Spain’s rugged northern coast.
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Selbach Sale 5-16-24

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Selbach Sale
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Vinopolis Close-Out Sale Featurette: Castello di Meleto
 

 
Selbach-Oster
 
Your Three-Day Discount Starts Now
 
If you’re an American that drinks German Riesling, thank Johannes Selbach. As the winemaker and owner of Selbach-Oster, Selbach makes profound and affordable German Rieslings. Because they aren’t opulent or extreme, the wines are overlooked by reviewers that prefer a more bombastic style. Instead, his wines are like sitting down to dinner with a good friend. You can drink his delicate and soulful Spätlesen and Auslesen wines with your main course, not just dessert or spicy dishes, and you’d be shocked at how flexible the bone-dry GGs and ethereal Kabinetts are across cuisine types.
 
But Johannes Selbach’s food-friendly style of Rieslings is not why he could be considered the ambassador of modern German wines.
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