This Week's Tasting
January White & Red Sale
January 22, 2025
A selection of the best values we found in discounted wines.
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This Week Wed, January 22, 2025 January White & Red Sale In-store, 5 - 6:30pm
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A selection of the best values we found in discounted wines.
White
Chardonnay Crisp
Chardonnay Rich
Chardonnay Crisp
2022 Justin Girardin Bourgogne Chardonnay St Martin
People loved this at our tasting with Justin in November. It comes from a single vineyard in Santenay but not within the appelation
natural yeast fermentation, aged in old barrels and vats, natural malolactic fermentation, aged on the fine lees.
Color: very pale; Mouth: clean, soft-textured rounded fruit, fine tannins, balanced, good finish; Very Good PlusWas $35, Now 24.99, case 19.99
Chardonnay Rich
2019 Authentique Cellars Chardonnay Willamette Valley
Decanter "The cool 2019 vintage is written all over this beautiful Chardonnay, sourced from the Keeler Estate Vineyard and Bois Joli Vineyard in the Eola-Amity Hills AVA. Made in a brilliantly reductive style with Kefir lime leaf, crushed slate, and chalky mineral notes mark the aromatics. The palate is framed by smoky minerality, and the classic Eola-Amity spice, white pepper, and cardamom stand out with savoury grilled lemon peel and gorgeous smoky flint minerality. Drinking Window: 2023 – 2033"
Was $70 Now $35, Case $29.99
Two White Blends
Sometimes, it takes more than one grape
Austira
2021 Prieler Gemischter Satz Kalkterrassen
The name says it all if you speak German. If you don't, Prieler, is one of the best wineries in Burgenland, and the grapes are from a vineyard of mixed varietals grown organically on limestone terraces.
Preller does an excellent job of blending the cacophony of eight different grapes, led by Muscat and gruner veltliner, into a smooth, dry, savory whole of muted herbs and spiced peach that will go very nicely with most savory Asian foods. We liked it a lot, even better at its new reduced price. Very Good Plus Was 23.99, Now 19.99, 16.99 by the Case
Alsace
2019 Marcel Deiss Engelgarten
Unlike most of his Alsatian peers, Jean Michel Deiss feels that complantation – mixing different varieties in one vineyard makes for a better, more complex wine that expresses the soil. Critics agree, ranking his domaine one of the best in the region. From his $100 bottles down, the whole range is organic. It bears opening ahead and not overchilling.
Engelgarten, the Angel's Garden vineyard, lives up to its name and outperformed its price for quality and complexity. Jean Michel, who has the soul of an artist, reminds me to tell you a story. He blends Pinots, Riesling, and Sylvaner to make a wine that nicely balances fat richness with an appealing acid spine. It is softy complex now but will age for another few years.
Stephen Reinhardt, Wine Advocate, "offers a rich and aromatic bouquet of ripe, yellow-fleshed fruits with some herbal and flinty notes. Lush and remarkably saline and vivacious on the palate, this is a rich and powerful as well as structured Riesling-driven white with a rather powerful and tight rather than long and energetic finish —13.3% alcohol.
Organic Color: Golden; Aroma: softly spicy a, lime, herbal, steel; Mouth: juicy soft with a firm mineral undertone, sweet lime-inflected melon, smooth with just enough acidity; Very Good-Excellent Was $45, Now $35, 29.99 by the Case
Red
You Won't Believe It's Not Burgundy
2020 Alphonse Mellot Pinot Noir Cotes de la Charite
This and Justin Giradin's Chassagne sold out in our email two days ago. Fortunately, we got more of the Pinot noir that resembles good Burgundy. At our discount, it has more character and substance than any other at its price.
Its growers proclaim the Cotes de la Charite region "between the Loire and Burgundy." That is true on the map; it is a short distance to the east of Sancerre, on the road to Burgundy. Underneath the surface, though, its limestone soils are more like those of some of Burgundy's better sites.
Famed Sancerre grower Alphonse Mellot has crafted an impressive and delicious wine. Rich and ample in the mouth, it has a village level's broad spice and rich warmth.
In 2020, he made a wine with a spice and elegance like that of a Cote de Nuits in a ripe vintage.
Color: very dark; Aroma: heady and sweet, very intense, vibrant, full, a nice sour herbal note, sour plum; Mouth: clean herbal, then acid, good fruit, graphite, some sour plum, very long, sublime and gratifying; To drink over the next year Very Good - Excellent
At $40 a bottle, it was a great alternate burgundy.
At $29.95, $24.95 by the Case, it's a no-brainer.
2019 Artadi Vinyas de Gain
Luis Guitierrez Wine Advocate "Tempranillo grapes … fermented in oak and stainless steel vats followed by malolactic in barrel and an élevage in barrel for nine months. They aimed for a fresh, fruit-driven and juicy red that comes from a low-yielding year, so the wine is concentrated but keeps the approachable style. It has nice balance. … This is always a very good value within the Artadi range." Tip: It blooms with some air before serving.
Very Good Plus Was $35, now 24.99, Case 19.99
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