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2016 Sottimano - Barbaresco Riserva (750ml)
Only produced in the best vintages and held back for a late release, this spectacular wine represents a special selection of fruit from the oldest vines on a 1.5-hectare slope. The Sottimano 2016 Barbaresco Riserva M. Sottimano transports us back to one o...
2021 Ratti, Renato - Barolo Marcenasco (750ml)
Macerated cherry and raspberry fruit is shaded by orange peel, iron and menthol flavors in this juicy red. Needs time to absorb the chewy tannins, with a mix of savory and fruity elements on the finish. Shows fine balance and length. Best from 2029 throug...
1985 Joseph Phelps - Meritage Insignia (750ml)
Fresh, lively notes of spice box, roasted herbs, black currants and plums are followed by a dark, broodingly backward wine with impressive richness, full body and a long finish displaying light to moderate tannins. The acidity is more vibrant and noticeab...
2024 Pra - Soave Classico Otto (750ml)
The 2024 Soave Classico Otto impresses with its fresh mix of vividly ripe orchard fruit. It’s airy and lifted with notes of minty herbs, sweet spices and white smoke. A burst of vibrant acidity invigorates the palate as salty minerals saturate. Crisp a...
2023 Pra - Soave Classico Staforte (750ml)
The 2023 Soave Classico Staforte wafts up with nuances of mint and sweet smoke before giving way to freshly sliced nectarines. It washes across the palate with ease, soft-textured yet with a core of crunchy mineral tones and hints of sour citrus that a...
2023 Catena - Malbec Mendoza Paraje Altamira (750ml)
The leader of the Catena Appellation series is the 2023 Appellation Paraje Altamira Malbec, which hails from vines planted in 1996 and leads with a harmonious and composed nose of bright fruits, floral tones and fresh herbs. The palate is svelte and poise...
2023 Catena -Cabernet Franc San Carlos (750ml)
The 2023 Cabernet Franc Appellation San Carlos, aged for up to 13 months in barrel, opens with soft ash notes, a touch of bell pepper and oak in the background. Intense with a chalky texture and a taut profile, the 2023 finishes with lovely fruit. This...
2023 Domino de Pingus - PSI Ribera del Duero (750ml)
Tasted just before bottling, so a sample of the final blend, the 2023 PSI is juicy, ripe and approachable. It is a little showier and headier, despite having similar alcohol to the bottled 2022 (perhaps a tad higher, but not quite reaching 14%), and it fe...
2020 Trimbach - Riesling Brand Grand Cru (750ml)
Trimbach bought these two parcels of over 70-year-old vines on granite and mic in 2018. The 2020 Riesling Brand Grand Cru's nose is immediately redolent of the herbal lift of warm sites. There is dried lemon peel, thyme, smoke and earth. Yet the palate...
2021 Trimbach - Riesling Selection de Vieilles Vignes (750ml)
2018 Trimbach - Riesling Clos Ste. Hune (750ml)
The 2018 Riesling Clos Ste Hune is deep and intense on the very generous yet refined and elegant, rich and lemon-scented nose that indicates enormous richness. It's very harmonious. Full-bodied, very intense and concentrated yet also vital and full of ten...
2025 De Wetshof - Chardonnay Robertson Limestone Hill (750ml)
2024 Schaefer, Willi - Graacher Domprobst Kabinett (750ml)
The 2024 Riesling Graacher Domprobst Kabinett still has a vestige of reductive flintiness on the nose. Green melon shimmers with citrus. Supreme fusion of flavors and absolute lightness define the palate. Juicy nectarine dances above slaty saltiness, c...
2024 Donnhoff - Hermannshohle Grosses Gewachs (750ml)
The 2024 Riesling Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Grosses Gewächs is from vines planted in 1949 on shale with some calcareous inclusions. Just 1,500 kg per hectare were harvested, about 8% less than usual. This is already luminous, even as barrel sample, wi...
2024 Schaefer, Willi - Graacher Himmelreich Kabinett (750ml)
The 2024 Riesling Graacher Himmelreich Kabinett still trembles with a little reduction, underneath, a tender apricot aroma fills out into white and yellow peach. That stone-fruited tenderness and intensity is absolutely present on the palate where hori...
2024 Alzinger, Leo - Gruner Veltliner Steinertal Smaragd (750ml)
The 2024 Grüner Veltliner Steinertal Smaragd, situated between two lateral valleys that channel cool air, gives this terraced site of gneiss higher day-to-night amplitude and lower daytime temperatures. Gentle spice brings white pepper and crushed fern...
2024 Alzinger, Leo - Riesling Steinertal Smaragd (750ml)
The 2024 Riesling Steinertal Smaragd comes from poor, higher-lying gneiss parcels predestined for Riesling. Very subtle scents of crushed citrus leaf and lime emerge with air. The palate is all citrus, linearity, brightness, purity and precision. Slend...
2024 Alzinger, Leo - Riesling Loibenberg Smaragd (750ml)
The 2024 Riesling Loibenberg Smaragd comes from a plot surrounded by trees at altitudes reaching up to 350 meters and shaded in the afternoon, all factors that temper the heat of the site. The shy nose offers only slight glimpses of citrus. On the pala...
2022 Cantine Madaudo - Cerasuolo di Vittoria Barone Bernaj (750ml)
2022 Marchetti - Rosso Conero Castro di San Silvestro (750ml)
2021 Pagliarese - Chianti Classico Riserva DOCG (750ml)
The 2021 Chianti Classico Riserva is another strong wine from Pagliarese. Dark-toned fruit, leather and tobacco take center stage, while floral top notes and ripe, sweet tannins complement a core of Sangiovese fruit. Dollops of Canaiolo and Mammolo rou...
2018 Le Cinciole - Chianti Classico Riserva Petresco (750ml)
The 2018 Petresco is another stellar wine from Le Cinciole. Bright and focused, with striking explosive energy, Petresco sizzles with tension. Black cherry, coffee, spice, leather, incense, lavender and plum all run through a linear, driving pure Sangi...
2020 Le Cinciole - Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Aluigi (750ml)
The 2020 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Aluigi Campo ai Peri is 100% Sangiovese from a single vineyard in Panzano that faces Lamole. It spent two years in cask and a third year in a larger cask. Rich, sumptuous and beautifully layered, the 2020 is all...
2024 Emrich-Schonleber - Niederberg Kabinett (750ml)
The 2024 Riesling Monzinger Niederberg Kabinett is full of stone and lemon aromas on the nose. Citrus takes the lead on the palate, with its exquisite zestiness and tender sweetness that rounds it out. This remains essentially refreshing, exciting and ...
2024 Emrich-Schonleber - Halenberg Grosses Gewachs (750ml)
The Halenberg is often considered, along with the Auf der Ley (offered only through the German auctions) the most structured and densest and most monumental of the Grand Crus from Schönleber. It is certainly a stony and dense wine; there is always more weight, more push and depth to the Halenberg. If the Frühlingsplätzchen is a dancer, the Halenberg is a monolith – its power is its presence, and vice-versa. In youth there is both more fruit and more mineral, compared to Frühlingsplätzchen. This is one of the most statuesque and substantial GGs out there, perhaps akin to Keller’s Morstein in density and structure.
Compared to the Frühlingsplätzchen, the Halenberg is rounder and riper – at least on first opening. There is more depth, more raw and pushing citrus fruit; the register feels more yellow than green. On the palate too, while the minimalist aesthetic of Schönleber is there, the wine feels more textural, both more fruity and more mineral. On day two the wine goes full 360 and shuts down completely: the nose is like smelling the cold purity of space (albeit with maybe a tinge of Meyer lemon?) It is haunting and the reputation of the wine begins to make sense only after 24+ hours open, holy hell. This is a brilliant wine, severe, coating, dense with concentration. Wow. This is an immense wine that needs hours/days to unfurl if you are drinking sooner and will certainly age for a decade or two or longer.
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2024 Emrich-Schonleber - Fruhlingsplatzschen Grosses Gewachs (750ml)
This is the Grand Cru sites with what I think is the greatest name out there – pronounced “Froooh-lings-PLATS-shen.” Go ahead and say it, it’ll make you feel good. It translates, roughly, to “little place of spring.” While the Halenberg is the denser, more monumental wine, with likely more stuffing and structure to age longer, I’ll admit the Frühlingsplätzchen is my favorite. There, I said it. I just love the soaring aromatics, the sharpness of the wine, the linear lightness and delicacy. They are rarely about fruit as much as they are about a saline quality, mineral and flower. This is a superb, superb GG that dances on the palate like a good old Spätlese Trocken… even Kabinett Trocken?
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2021 Campo Casal Vegri - Valpolicella DOC Classico Superiore Ca La Bionda (750ml)
2019 Chateau Rouget - Pomerol (750ml)
The 2019 Rouget is bold, plush and racy to the core. Raspberry jam, spice, kirsch, leather, cedar and sweet pipe tobacco all meld together effortlessly. This sumptuous, flamboyant Pomerol captures all of the natural intensity of the year.
2022 Pierre Usseglio - Lirac (750ml)
Not yet bottled, the 2022 Lirac is 60% Grenache, 20% Mourvèdre, and 10% each of Syrah and Cinsault that saw a splash of stems and is still resting all in foudre. Ripe black cherries, black licorice, and peppery, savory herb notes all define the aromatics,...
2018 Chateau Sarget de Gruaud Larose - St. Julien (750ml)
Juicy and energetic, with cassis and dark plum fruit flavors laced with sweet tobacco and violet notes. Nice applewood note frames the racy finish. Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. Drink now through 2028. 19,276 cases made.
2023 Wirsching - Iphofer Scheurebe Trocken (750ml)
Simmers with mineral and smoke notes that surround the dense core of firm apple and fragrant pear. Crushed flint leads, with lime-edged acidity directing the tangy, high-energy finish, which is clean and taut. Drink now through 2028. 74 cases imported.
2022 El Enemigo - Cabernet Franc (750ml)
The 2022 Cabernet Franc contains 10% Malbec from Gualtallary. This aged for 15 months in foudres (50%), barrels (25%) and tanks (25%). Its aromas include soft ash, herbs, oak and rosehip on the nose. This is dry and juicy, with gentle chalk and vibrant...
2022 El Enemigo - Malbec (750ml)
Sourced from Gualtallary's Adrianna Vineyard, the 2022 Cabernet Franc contains 10% Malbec and underwent a 60-day maceration and aged for 15 months in a mix of foudre, barrique and tank. Opening with a dark-fruited, floral and spice-inflected nose, the pal...
2019 Ratti, Renato - Barolo Marcenasco (750ml)
From vineyards just outside this modern winery with external wood paneling and sleek architectural lines at the bottom of the La Morra ascent, this is Ratti's best-known wine and also its biggest production with 70,000 bottles made. The 2019 Barolo Marcen...
2021 Luke Wines - Cabernet Sauvignon Wahluke Slope (750ml)
Snappy and vibrant, with fresh cherry and raspberry flavors accented by toasty spices and cedar, finishing with refined tannins. Drink now through 2030. 14,500 cases made.
2022 Luke Wines - Syrah Wahluke Slope (750ml)
Aromatically expressive and handsomely structured, this red offers precise flavors of blackberry and cherry framed by black olive, smoked meat and cracked pepper tones as this gathers richness on the finish. Drink now through 2032. 702 cases made.
2022 Luke Wines - Merlot Wahluke Slope (750ml)
Sleek and generous, with appealing cherry and red currant flavors accented with tobacco and dusty spices. Drink now through 2031. 4,113 cases made.
2022 Hartford Court - Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast Sevens Bench (750ml)
The 2022 Pinot Noir Sevens Bench Vineyard is medium red/ruby hue and offers a riper feel, with savory spices and notes of sanguine iron-rich earth, dried cherries, and menthol. The palate is ripe and inviting, with a plush texture that remains medium-bodi...
2024 Guimaro - Ribeira Sacra (750ml)
The young 2024 Mencía has 15% other varieties, 80% from the Sil River and 20% from the Miño River, and a pale color and perfumed nose, finer and more elegant than previous years. It has contained ripeness and 12.5% alcohol and a light- to medium-bodied pa...
2023 Prisma - Pinot Noir Casablanca Valley (750ml)
This hand-harvested, 100% Pinot Noir is blend of four clones produced from a single vineyard located in the Casablanca Valley. The granite soils and cool, coastal climate produce a fresh, vibrant and aromatic wine. It shows bright red fruit notes of strawberry and cherry, with an underlying hint of oak, that leads to a lifted mid-palate and smooth, velvety finish.
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2018 Stephane Tissot - Savagnin Arbois Vin Jaune Curon (620ml)
2018 Stephane Tissot - Savagnin Arbois Vin Jaune En Spois (620ml)
2023 Reserve St. Dominique - Vacqueryas (750ml)
The nose showcases notes of strawberries, fresh plums, roasted meat, warm spices and some black olives. Medium- to full-bodied with fine tannins and a refined texture. Long, flavorful and vivid finish. 70% grenache, 15% syrah and 15% cinsault. Drink or ho...
2022 Geantet-Pansiot - Charmes Chambertin (750ml)
A moderately toasty nose is comprised by ripe and fresh earth-inflected aromas of wild red and dark berries, violet and a hint of leather. There is better volume still to the rich and well-muscled flavors that possess even better mid-palate concentration ...
2019 Chateau Haut Simard - St. Emilion (750ml)
From vines at the foot of the slope opposite Canon la Gaffelière comes the Vauthier family's 2019 Haut-Simard, a promising young wine that exhibits aromas of cherries, raspberries, violets, raw cocoa and sweet spices. Medium to full-bodied, lively and nic...
2015 Chateau Prieure Lichine - Margaux (750ml)
The 2015 Prieuré-Lichine has really come together over the last two years. Sumptuous, bold and racy, with no hard edges or angular contours, the 2015 is all class. The purity of the flavors is striking. Bright floral and spice notes perk up the red sto...
2022 Bouchard Pere & Fils - Meursault (750ml)
The 2022 Meursault Les Clous has a slight reduction on the nose, making it difficult to read. The fresh palate has plenty of extract, orange pith, mandarin and light stem ginger touches, becoming quite waxy in texture towards the finish. With good weig...
2022 Bouchard Pere & Fils - Chevalier Montrachet (750ml)
Lush and inviting, this baking spice–infused white features apricot, honeysuckle, oyster shell and butterscotch flavors. Framed by toasty oak, with underlying power and energy. Unfolds in layers to the long, multidimensional aftertaste. Best from 2027 thr...
2002 Krug - Champagne Brut (750ml)
Krug's 2002 Brut (ID 415064 – disgorged IV/2015) has an intense citrus color and opens with a generous, intense yet fine and precise bouquet that indicates great depth and elegance. Red fruit flavors on the nose lead to a generously rich yet pure, highly ...
Old Forester Barrel Strength STORE PICK Bourbon Whiskey 750ml
OF "store picks' are some of the hottest ticket items in the whiskey world. This is our second barrel and we like it even more than the first.
WHSE K Floor 8 132 proof
Rare Character Presents S.B. MacArthur STORE PICK Bourbon 750ml
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Barrel # VEN-716 126.18 proof 8yr 9 mo