Category: wine discovery

An Amazing Move

 

Today’s best sale, a moving sale, is almost too good to be true. As a lover of real Sauvignon Blanc, not the watery, sweet stuff, and a fan of genuine Dolcetto, I suggest we all move quickly and take advantage of the move.

Go to www.invino.com

Check out these two 10 buck specials:

2016 Beltane Ranch Sauvignon Blanc, Sonoma Valley, $10

2016 Dolcetto d’Alba, La Collina, $10

Priced 60-67% below retail, they are perfect for picnic or BBQ fare….and whatever.

Great opportunity to see why Dolcetto is so popular in Piedmont.

The 2016 Montepulciano could also be a winner.

What are you waiting for?

 

Stunning Wine from An Unknown Region

 

Here’s one brilliant selection for the truly open-minded and adventurous wine lover, if there are any left.

Sommselect.com is offering a super red wine from one of the world’s most under-appreciated wine region, Roussillon in the south of France. The vineyard is close to the Spanish border in a sub-region known as the Côtes Catalanes.

If you are man enough to try something new, here it is:

2017 Domaine de l’Horizon, “L’ESPRIT DE L’HORIZON”

$39 a bottle, free shipping for 4 or more. Limit 12 bottles per order.

By no coincidence, this wine is from Calce, a high elevation special mountainside vineyard area that neighbors the lone superstar, Domaine Gauby.

I visited Gauby several years ago and came away convinced the $100 bottles of wine were actually a deal. And I’m frugal!

And, for those of you who never thought much of the Carignan grape, you will be, as I was, astonished by the depth and complexity of wines made from old Carignan vines grown in this tiny region.

It is 60% Carignan and 40% Syrah which adds flesh and spice to this exciting 2017 red.

This is definitely NOT one of those over-ripe, fruit bombs that are all jam and usually given inflated 90+ scores by bogus Somms.

Best of all, this is a wine of place, one that demonstrates that terroir is a real concept.

And that is what wine is, or should be, all about.

Check it out at http://www.sommselect.com