Muga Prado Enea
$117.99
The Muga family keeps buying vineyards and already has 475 hectares of vineyards (owned and some 90 hectares of those rented) and are even planting some new ones. They have bought the facilities of the Labastida cooperative (only the buildings) because they have grown to some two million bottles, especially with the new brand, El Andén de la Estación, which is close to 200,000 bottles, but also in whites and sparkling wine.
Luis Gutiérrez - Wine Advocate - 97+ Points Drink between 2024 - 2040 The expressive, complex and nuanced 2016 Prado Enea Gran Reserva is a textbook traditional Rioja in the making. 2016 was a very elegant year, with aging potential, volume and very good acidity and freshness. It's full-bodied but fine-boned, has 14.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.6 and 5.25 grams per liter acidity. It has terrific balance, with all the components in the right proportion to age superbly in bottle. They have also been working on the selection of wood used. This wine matured in French and American oak barrels for three years, and the oak is super integrated. 127,808 bottles produced. It was bottled in January 2020. It was an exceptional year with volume and quality.
Purple Hands Haakon Lenai Pinot Noir
$106.99
Over the past 40 years, Cody’s (Cody Wright, son of legendary Oregon winemaker Ken Wright) family has created a legacy of quality in the Oregon wine industry. Their winemaking styles and techniques helped Oregon’s Willamette Valley become the premium Pinot Noir-producing region in the world. At Purple Hands, Cody continues to build on the standard of excellence initiated by the previous generation.They dry farm their 60 acres of estate vineyards with their in-house team. They believe that dry farming pro-acts the roots of the grapevine and strengthens their work to descend into the parent material of subsoil finding water, in the process creating incredible fruit character.
2022 Haakon/Lenai Vineyard Pinot Noir
93 Points
“The Haakon/Lenai Pinot Noir offers attractive floral notes of lush violets, candied red berries and turned soils. The palate is lushly textured, with layers of red and purple berries, a dollop of smoky clove, dried wild anise and dusty blackberries; there are notes of black tea and smoky cinnamon spice and earthen minerality that carry the finish.”
- Clive Pursehouse - Decanter magazine
Nardi Brunello Di Montalcino
$113.99
1954 was the first vintage of Brunello di Montalcino Tenute Silvio Nardi. The Brunello di Montalcino wine Consortium was still far from being created. Tenute Silvio Nardi is one of the first companies to bottle its own wine and today, extraordinary bottles of the Fifties and Sixties are well kept in the historical cellar. Zoning, clonal selection and replantation projects are carried on. Scientific research goes side by side with the experience of tradition. Brunello Tenute Silvio Nardi is a blend of 20 different vinifications of Sangiovese from different plots of Casale del Bosco and Manachiara estates.
Chermette Viognier
$41.99
The estate of Famille Chermette in Saint-Vérand is in the Golden Stone area, South of Beaujolais in Rhone. Combining tradition and innovation, Martine, Pierre-Marie and Jean-Etienne Chermette are fully involved in the production of authentic, high quality wines. White, red and Beaujolais rosé, crus such as Brouilly, Fleurie, Moulin-à-Vent, Saint-Amour, Crémants de Bourgogne as well as hand crafted fruit liqueurs, cassis and vine peach with ginger make up the range.
Benanti Etna Rosso
$59.99
Benanti is a pioneering winery located on Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, known for revitalizing the Etna wine region. Founded by Giuseppe Benanti in 1988, the family-run winery uses indigenous grapes like Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappuccio, and Carricante to produce high-quality wines that showcase the unique terroir of the volcanic slopes. Today, Giuseppe's twin sons, Antonio and Salvino Benanti, manage the winery and continue its legacy.
Ca' Del Baio Barbaresco Autinbej
$69.99
For four generations, Ca’ del Baio has been a family affair, as is the tradition in the Langhe. Nurtured and passed down from father to son, the vineyards surrounding the Grasso family farmhouse have been added to over time through marriage and acquisitions. Today it is Giulio and Luciana who, together with their daughters Paola, Valentina and Federica, handle all the various areas of the business with passion and expertise, from the growing and vinification of the grapes, to hospitality and wine sales. These are some of the most revered and respected wines in Piedmont, and the prices remain very fair considered.
Quinta Nova Douro Touriga
$46.99
With a history spanning over 200 years, Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo occupies over 120 ha of land and has been listed since the first demarcation of the Douro wine region in 1756, during the Pombaline era. The original wine cellar that dates back to 1764, and the 19th-century manor house with a chapel (1795) are harmoniously integrated into one of the estate's hills. Owned by the Portuguese Royal Family until 1725, it became a “new estate” when two estates were merged. Several Portuguese families lived in the estate in the 18th and 19th centuries, during an important period in the agriculture of the Douro, and gave life to the vineyards and wine, fruit orchards, water mills built along the stream that runs through the estate and the old olive grove.
Giant Steps Coal River Pinot Noir
$87.99
Giant Steps was founded by wine industry pioneer Phil Sexton, who ventured from Margaret River to Yarra Valley to find the ideal site to cultivate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir of purity and finesse. Phil found his holy grail near Gruyere in the Sexton vineyard, which he planted in 1997 on the steep slopes of the Warramate Ranges. A mad jazz fan, Phil named the winery after John Coltrane’s album and fitting metaphor, “Giant Steps.” In 2003, Winemaker Steve Flamsteed came aboard, and the two set about producing a range of iconic Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays that express a profound sense of place from six finite sites in Yarra Valley.
DB Schmitt Pinot Noir
$39.99
Bianka and Daniel and Bianka (the d.b.) took over the Weingut Schmitt in 2012 as the fourth generation to lead the winery. They are based in Wonnegau in the south Rheinhessen, centred in Flörsheim-Dalsheim. All of the vineyards are in Flörsheim-Dalsheim and neighbour villages of Monsheim and Kriegsheim. Bianka and Daniel have been working their 16 hectares biodynamically for over a decade and are one of only 80 producers in Germany to be Demeter certified.
This natural wine is Demeter certified and low in alcohol (11.5)