ArPePe Sale 5-22-24

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ArPePe
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Vinopolis Close-Out Sale Featurette: Bodegas Maranones
 

 
ArPePe
 
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As the Alps dramatically ease their way from the north of Italy to Switzerland, the small wine region of Valtellina is nestled between snow-peaked mountains, rolling hills, and meandering rivers. With regard to northern Italian wine and Nebbiolo-at-large, Valtellina is one of those best-kept-secrets. It is home to some of the most ethereal and mineral driven expressions of wine in the world. Naturally insulated from the rest of the country due to the topography, the villagers practice winemaking exactly as they have for centuries.
 
One of the region’s finest wine producers – and likely the best-known – is ArPePe. Arturo Pelizzatti Perego (who went by ArPePe) family’s winemaking roots in the area go back centuries, but they were forced to sell off their winery and some vineyards due to illness.
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Vajra Sale 5-21-24

G.D. Vajra & Luigi Baudana
 
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It’s rare to find benchmark wines that remain affordable from one of a wine-growing region considered one of the finest in the world for centuries, but not impossible. Well, if you’ve read the title of this newsletter, there’s no surprise who we have in mind: G.D. Vajra and the now-sister estate of Luigi Baudana.
 
Check the purchase record of any staff member, and you’ll know why we call G.D. Vajra one of our favorite producers in the Piedmont. The estate responsible for some of the finest Barolos we offer and also excels with their more entry-level options. The lineup as a whole is quite simple the best in Piedmont today. At all price points they are benchmark wines against which all others are judged.
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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
 
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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