Thursday VinopolPick 4-5-18
In Today’s Newsletter:
A Trio of ’15 Felsina: Classics in the Making
Vigot’s Under the Radar Vosne, Now in the April Sale
New Vinous Reviews for 2013 Brunello
Durand’s Huge Value Northern Rhone
Dispatches from the ‘Other’ Spain – Raul Perez’s Genius
A Trio of 2015 Felsina
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.
To Buy, Drink, Hold and Buy Some More
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.
There’s an old axiom that you can’t trust a red-wine maker to make good white wines, but producers that are known for whites often make great reds. That’s certainly true of Matrot, the venerable producer of Meursault. Their whites are great and well known, but somehow the reds the family produces from the Cote de Beaune are sleepers—undervalued but delicious.