Tuesday VinopolPick 4-10-18
In Today’s Newsletter:
… Read the rest The Perfect Wines For Spring?
Agathe Bursin’s Alsatian Delights
A Tuscan Focus in the April Clearance Sale
Notable from Napa: Snowden and Bosché Inbound
Incredible Deals on Two Kermit Classics
2015 Gouges—The Best Yet
The Perfect Wines For Spring?
Agathe Bursin’s Alsatian Delights
Agathe Bursin is a wonderful producer of Alsatian wines, with a strong following in France, but somehow remains slightly unknown in the US. Her production sells out before it’s even bottled—mostly to private clients in Europe, but a little makes its way over to our shores. Yet when it gets here, sometimes it gets overlooked, because she makes wines that are useful at the table (and are priced as such) instead of being ‘trophy’ wines for collectors to fight over.
Felsina is a top-three Chianti producer and a top-ten estate in Tuscany as a whole. The value out of their wines, from top to bottom, is astounding. We’re big fans of their top two wines, Rancia and Fontelloro, but their lower tier wines offer great value. We already sold through the first tranche of the basic Chianti and now have their Chianti Riserva arriving as well—a serious value play that’s a step up from the entry level but still attractively priced.
Vieux Telegraphe is one of the top three or four estates in the Southern Rhone, producing both red and white wines of complexity, longevity and power. The 2015 red and 2016 white are some of the best wines the estate has made in their respective categories and we’ve dropped the price on them for the rest of this month. 
If you love to drink wine, the most exciting thing is catching a producer as they become a star. This holds doubly true if you sell wine for a living. When your discovery is in a region that’s well known—that’s the biggest prize of all and very true for the producer in Barbaresco we’re highlighting today: Socré.
Decanter 95 points “The estate known today as Freemark Abbey was established in 1886 by one of the first female wine-growers in Napa. Today Ted Edwards is head winemaker, working for the past three decades to develop relationships with growers, allowing exclusive sourcing rights to specific plots, which is crucial to the winery’s success.