Vinopolis Newsletter 1-31-25

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Special Arrivals
Donnhoff Always Delivers

New Arrivals
Turley, Calabretta, and more

Willamette Wineries We Love
Awesome Ayres wines and Beautiful Brick House Bottles

Our Best Bordeauxes
For Budgets Great and Small
 
Special Arrivals
 
 
Weingut Donnhoff


We at Vinopolis try not to play favorites but wineries like Donnhoff, our beloved jewel of the Nahe, make that a challenging endeavor. When customers come in looking to “get into Riesling,” this is usually the first winery that comes to mind. Yes, the world is a capricious place but year after year you can be sure that a Donnhoff wine will be as close to perfection as the vintage allows.
 
These Grosses Gewachs selections represent the best of the best wineries. These wines are so focused, so flavorful and complex, that they would be a bargain at twice the price.
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Tuscan Treasures Sale: Isole e Olena & Fontodi 1-30-25

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Tuscan Treasures Sale
Close-Out Featurette: Benjamin Romeo

 
“I don’t think there is another winemaker in Italy who can match [Paolo de Marchi’s of Isole e Olena] skill across that many different varieties… Don’t miss these wines.” –Antonio Galloni, Vinous
 
“Among the many excellent estates located in Panzano is Fontodi, one of the finest wine estates in the world…” –Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
 
Tuscan Treasures Sale
 
Stock Up & Save On
 
Isole e Olena & Fontodi
 
5% off any 3-5 in-stock bottles of Isole e Olena & Fontodi
10% off any 6 or more in-stock bottles of Isole e Olena & Fontodi
 
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Vinopolis Newsletter 1-29-25 PM

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Special Arrivals
Carl Loewen

New Arrivals
Paris Simoneau, Ridge, Patz & Hall, and more

Collector’s Corner
98 Point Ports from Dow, Quinta do Noval, and more!
 
Special Arrival
 
 
Carl Loewen


In the 1980’s and 90’s when the German wine industry was still in terrible disarray, the Loewen family began buying up the steepest, most dilapidated, and unwanted vineyards in Mosel and rehabilitating them. In addition, many of these vineyards still retained super low-yielding, ungrafted, plantings up to 120 years old!
 
These wines present an authenticity that simply cannot be found from younger plantings or upstart wineries still trying to find their sea-legs.
 
This Riesling is named for the year of its vineyard’s planting, 1896, making these vines 127 years old when they were picked.
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Exceptional Wine from Exceptional Folks: Stock Up & Save On Weingut Gunther Steinmetz 1-29-25

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Steinmetz Sale
Close-Out Featurette: GD Vajra & Luigi Baudana

 
Exceptional Wine from Exceptional Folks:
 
Stock Up & Save On
 
Weingut Gunther Steinmetz
 
Stefan and Sammie Steinmetz’s excellent cuvees first landed on our shelves in 2022. As purveyors of one of the largest, deepest, and finest collection of German Rieslings in the United States, it’s pretty hard to impress us. But impress, they did.
 
Their wines are from incredibly steep terrain along the banks of the Mosel on vines grown without fertilizers, herbicides or insecticides. Their environmentally-friendly mindset is carried into the winery, where the wines are fermented with naturally occurring yeasts and without additives or animal proteins (often found in fining agents). Their commitment to organic viticulture on challenging, steep slopes and minimal intervention winemaking yields wines of extraordinary concentration and breathtaking character.
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Race on over for our Racines sale! 1-28-25

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Racines Sale
Close-Out Featurette: Daterra

 
Race On Over for Our Racines Sale!
 
One of the preeminent names in Burgundy, Étienne de Montille of Domaine de Montille, sought out land on the West Coast of America to craft Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. He approached the new project with a Burgundian sensibility, so it was only natural that he focused on the Santa Rita Hills in Santa Barbara County. (Oregon was probably his next stop.) The Santa Rita Hills region seems to pull at French hearts, as it did with the late Philippe Cambie in his joint project with Adam Lee of Siduri, named Beau Marchais.
 
And draw even more French folk, it did. Étienne shared the news with his friend Rodolphe Péters of Champagne’s top-class grower estate, Pierre Péters, who quickly signed on and became the sparkling wine consultant for the project.
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