Category: Christmas Sales

Best Winery Direct Holiday Sale

Winery Direct Holiday Sale

The Clos LaChance End of the Year Sale is HERE! Enjoy amazing prices on delicious wines – no coupon code required, simply shop online, or visit the Tasting Room. Supplies are limited, so don’t wait to take advantage of these great deals!

Truly, this is an amazing opportunity to stock up on wines for the holidays.

Check this out: 50% off of solid, high quality wines.

The deal is on for the month of December.

I’ve visited the winery on numerous occasions when living in the area.

It is family owned and managed. No corporate bs.

Authentic wines made from their own vineyards. Not private labels.

My favs are the Sauvignon Blanc and the Cabernet.

Clos LaChance has vineyards in the Santa Clara Valley, and Cabernet Sauvignon has thrived here for decades. Insider truth: the Cabs are every bit as good as Napa Valley’s. Honest!

Clos LaChance is a favorite hangout of the Silicon Valley crowd. 

Here’s a little more background:

Clos LaChance Vineyards

www.clos.com

Family owned, now in the hands of the second Murphy generation. Clos LaChance began in 1982. The family vineyard gradually grew to its current 150 acres. Today, it is a vastly popular wine destination with a very active and loyal wine club membership. The tasting room overlooks the valley and a private golf course, and has a well deserved reputation for both its food and its many musical events. 

Cabernet and Chardonnay are the mainstays, but I’m also a big fan of the Sauvignon Blanc and the red blend, Pirates 22.

Dont hesitate.

You can thank me later.

Classic Wines for Winter Solstice Celebrations

 

Coincidence maybe but three e-commerce wine sites I follow are offering classic wines. 

Good reason to celebrate changes and longer days.

By classic, I mean wines true to the type and region, and with some history. Not the over-blown bombastic style often referred to as “hedonistic” made by an unproven twit.

Classics, not wannabe cults.

Real wines, folks.

Like the www.sommselect.com offer of this one:

2017 School House Vineyards Syrah Blend, Spring Mountain, Napa $29.00

Now this is a coup! 

From one of Napa’s truly legendary vineyards. Owned by John Ganter. Google him.Read the story. It was made at Pride Mountain which knows how to make Syrah. 

I can’t believe this is offered anywhere, let alone online.

Next, www.napacabs.com scored big with two quite different classics:

2017 Castello di Volpaia Chianti Classsico $15.97

2017 Catena Malbec, Mendoza High Mountain Vineyards, $15.97

Hard to find a better example of classic, classico Chianti. Drink now or hold. Volpaia has been at it for 100 years or so.

Catena is “the” name in Argentinian Malbec, but in my humble opinion, Malbec has its limitations. It can be pushed into a hedonistic cookie cutter style, but then it doesn’t taste like Malbec.  

There is a reason why Malbec is the 4th variety in Bordeaux: the other three are more essential and capable of more complexity.

But Malbec can be a perfect, widely appealing, easy drinking red.

This Catena is a pure expression of Malbec. 

And not to be left out:

The fun guys at http://www.lastbottlewines.com found this gem:

2016 Bien Nacido Pinot Noir, Santa Maria Valley, $49.00

Bien Nacido was at the forefront of the Pinot revolution thanks to Sideways. And it remains one of the standards of Santa Maria/Santa Barbara Pinot Noir.

A classic!!

Super Pre-Christmas Wine Sale

Going into the weekend before Christmas,  we checked out the deals from  all major websites and came up with a clear winner: http://www.wineExpress.com

Billing the sale as “Red Friday,” http://www.wineexpress.com offered  5 deeply discounted red wines.

And came up with these 4 winners:

  • 2014 HW Old Vine Zinfandel, Lodi $12.47
  • 2017 Syrah Cowan Cellers, Bennett Valley $12.47
  • 2016 Chateau Violette, Moulis en Medoc, $19.47
  • 2015 Belle Fiore Red Blend (Cabernet, Malbec, Merlot), Rogue Valley, $12.47

Shipping is free on orders over $149.00

These four first-rate wines are offered at 40-50% off.

We know them well.

The only odd thing is the recurring “47” cents in all prices.

Read the detailed review ofwineexpress at http://www.robywine.com