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February Wine Bargains
Red Wines:
Planeta “La Segreta” Rosso, 2015, Sicily, Italy This internationally-‐styled red blend (Nero d'Avola, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon) offers sweet black cherry, mocha, and spice characteristics. Fat, fleshy, pure, and chewy, it has plenty of glycerin and texture, it will drink well for at least 2-‐3 years. $14 Cartlidge & Brown Pinot Noir, 2014, California Cartlidge & Browne's Pinot Noir is better than many we’ve tasted that sell for five times the price. Its medium ruby color is followed by a soft perfume of sweet cherry fruit and a touch of cinnamon. With good weight, medium body, excellent purity, and a generous, savory texture, it can be enjoyed over the next 1-‐2 years. Kudos! $14 Lechuza Garnacha, 2015, Cariñena, Spain Sourced from plots of old vine Garnacha, the wine has beautiful scents of violets, wild berries and a hint of licorice met by rich flavors of cassis, blackberry and blueberry. A full throttle wine with big flavors and rich texture that has impressive energy and lift despite its overall power and concentration. $11 Promesses Cotes du Rhone, 2015, Rhone Valley, France A blend of Syrah & Grenache that is forward in style and juicy and has lots of classic Southern Rhone meatiness, peppery herbs, lavender and red and black fruits in its charming, medium-‐bodied personality. It has excellent purity, is balanced, elegant and best drunk over the coming couple of years with any type of roast or braised meat. $11 Palacio de Arganza Cabernet Sauvignon & Mencia, 2012, Tierra de Castilla, Spain (wood case) Wow. What a steal. This graceful red has bright cherry fruit, a hint of forest underbrush and a touch of toasty oak. It has great depth and real elegance. $11 Chateau Signoret, 2015, Bordeaux, France (wood case) The 2015 Petite Chateau Bordeaux are showing beautifully right now. This wine has a generous bouquet with lively red cherries intermingling with redcurrant jam and cranberry. The palate is rounded on the entry with a savory edge, cedar and hints of cocoa infusing the red berry fruit, leading to a satisfying finish with commendable weight. It will drink beautifully for the next 5 years. $14 Finca La Linda Malbec, 2016, Mendoza, Argentina This wine is made by the folks at Luigi Bosca, a pioneer in the wine business in Argentina. Fresh and fruit driven in style, this wine shows red fruits, like cherries and blackberries, layered with spicy and delicate floral notes. On the palate it shows fruity flavors, while delivering a full-‐bodied and silky texture. Ripe tannins and balanced acidity make it a perfect pairing for burgers and barbecue. $13 Viña Las Perdices Cabernet Sauvignon, 2016, Mendoza, Argentina This broad-‐shouldered Cabernet Sauvignon (100%) spent 8 months in French and American oak. Cedar, spice box, violets, and assorted red and black fruits lead to a savory, ripe, medium to full-‐bodied wine with fantastic depth and length. This great value is meant for drinking over the next 3-‐4 years. Begs for steak. $13
Sparkling & White Wines: Villa Jolanda “I Love You” Spumante, Italy We featured this wine at the holidays with their festive packaging and the “I Love You” version is just too cute to pass up. Delicious fresh and bright bottle of bubbly that shows that special someone how much you care. Of course you could drink it on your own, too. We’re not going to judge. $13 Massone Gavi, 2016, Piedmont, Italy Gavi has a beautiful love story attached to it, so we thought we’d feature it this month. Once upon a time in a land far away, there lived a fair young princess named Gavia, daughter of Clodimir, king of the Franks and son of Clovis I. As young maidens are wont to do, she fell in love with a handsome young man who served as a guard in her father’s court. The couple sought the king’s permission to marry, but he refused to have his daughter wed out of her class. He forbade them to see each other. Desperately in love, the young couple eloped, fleeing to a distant part of the kingdom and settling in a sleepy village on the other side of the alps. For a long time, they eluded the king’s troops who scoured the land in search of the newlyweds. Alas, one night after enjoying a generous amount of a charming local white wine, the groom became loose-‐lipped and confided their story to the local innkeeper. The innkeeper nodded and feigned sympathy, but after sending the groom off to bed he sent word to the king and collected a handsome reward. Troops gathered up the couple and brought them back to the king to face their punishment. By this time word of the romance had spread throughout the kingdom, and there were intercessions on Gavia’s behalf by Alamasunta, Queen of the Goths, as well as Pope St. Hermistas. The King, of course, upon looking into his lovely daughter’s eyes, could not help but forgive her. He blessed their union, and as a wedding gift he bequeathed them the town which they had chosen to settle in. In her honor he gave the name Gavi to the town as well as the charming white wine that was responsible for her husband’s indiscretion. $13 Lujon Wine Cellars Riesling, 2015, Willamette Valley Oregon This wine is bright, fruit forward and gorgeously rich and expressive. It is silky-‐textured, and medium-‐bodied with expressive notes of apples, pears, and a crisp minerality on the finish. $13 Mercer Chardonnay, 2014, Columbia Valley, Washington This rich, well-‐structured Chardonnay has aromas of buttered popcorn, poached pear, apple, and tropical fruit that lead to a smooth-‐textured, savory, tasty wine that will drink nicely for several years. $14
