Double Feature: New Sales on De Venoge & Schatzel 4-24-24

Fine & Rare Champagne & German Sustainability Star

In This Newsletter:
 
New Close-Out Sale Wines from De Venoge
 &
Schätzel: Three-Day Sale
 

 
New Close-Out Sale Wines

From Champagne House de Venoge
 
De Venoge is an old-school Champagne House that’s relatively unknown in the United States, a fact that means even their finest and rarest wines continue to be undervalued relative to their peers. This is no better exemplified than their prestige cuvee, the LXV bottling. Named after Louis the 15th, who first authorized the bottling of Champagne, it sees extensive aging on its lees and is a true monument of vintage champagne. 

De Venoge was established in Champagne in the first part of the 19th century by Swiss born Henri-Marc de Venoge and his son Joseph.  
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Vinopolis Newsletter -Close-Outs 4-22-24

 In This Newsletter:

Close-Out Sale: Save Big on the Biggest Names in Barolo and Barbaresco
Featuring Vietti, Aldo Conterno, Luigi Baudana, Paolo Scavino, and more!

We’re making room for more wine…
 

That means big savings for you!
 
…featured Close-Out wines:
 
Vietti.
 
In the minds of wine lovers, Vietti is what they think of when they think of Barolo. Proclaimed a Historical Brand of National Interest by Italy’s Minister of Economic Development, Vietti represents Italian wine itself to its core: expressive, dramatic, and graceful with incredible depth as it comes of age.
 
2018 was the very first year that Vietti produced their Cerequio bottling and this wine came out of the gates swinging. Due to its finesse, elegant perfume, and near immortality in the bottle Cerequio, a Cru split between Barolo and La Morra, is considered by many to be one of Barolo’s premium terroirs and its wines one of the most classical representations of the region as a whole.
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Arnot-Roberts 4-23-24

On Sale Now
 
At the forefront of the “New California” are small, pioneering producers such as Arnot-Roberts. Started by childhood friends Duncan Arnot Meyers and Nathan Lee Roberts in 2001, they’ve quickly established themselves as some of the best producers of restrained and elegant small-parcel wines. In 2013 the San Francisco Chronicle named them “Winemakers of the Year” in recognition of the quality and consistency of the wines they’re producing, and they’ve racked up professional accolades ever since.
 
The wines show spunk and backbone, nothing soft and fruity. The acidity and tannin evoke the great wines of France over their plusher peers. These are serious wines that are built to age—which is how they’ve developed such a following. Given a couple years in the cellar, these blossom into wines that rival the best in the world.
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Bründlmayer 4-22-24

On Sale Now
 
We feel fortune to offer such an incredible selection of top Austrian wines. It’s both a blessing and a curse.
 
The blessing is obvious: these are some of the greatest wines made anywhere in the world. They include such luminaries as FX Pichler, Gobelsburg, and Nikolaihof. Somms and Austrian wine fans get EXCITED when they see our selections. That joy is what we live for.
 
The curse side…well, let’s just say that 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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Kruger-Rumpf up to 10% Off! 4-21-24

Georg and Julia
Georg and Julia of Kruger-Rumpf

5% off any 3-5 in-stock Kruger-Rumpf wines
10% off any 6 or more in-stock Kruger-Rumpf wines
Sale ends Wednesday April 24th at 9AM PST
 
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Kruger-Rumpf is a top quality estate in the Nahe which lies between the Mosel and the Rhine rivers—sort of a halfway point between both, geographically and stylistically.  What I think I love most about this winery is the value that their bottlings offer in terms of price to quality ratio. It’s a shame really that I’m rejoicing that a winery doesn’t charge higher prices for their wines when they absolutely deserve to, but the benefit can’t be ignored.
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