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GLENMORANGIE 10 YEAR OLD

This vibrant, sumptuous single malt reveals aromas of orange, lemon, peach, pear, apple and apricot ripe to bursting along with creamy vanilla, delicate flowers and complicated spice. The flavors carry this orchard of intrigue like silk across your palate evolving to display fennel, nutmeg and blanched almonds that resolve as a nectar of fruit, spice and nuts to finish gently with more captivating sweet fruit lingering on your palate.

Sale $27.99 Retail $49.99 750ml [111760] 

GLENMORANGIE SHERRY CASK- LA SANTA

La Santa tantalizes with scents of cocoa nibs, toffee, sultana, honey and creamy caramel with citrus to open the door to filberts, butterscotch, flax seed and rum baba served with sherry. The palate follows the nose closely with rich-full honeyed flavor showing more nuts, some chocolate, hints of spice and polished leather. The finish is whelming with profuseness, gratifyingly lengthy with orange, spices, chocolate and nuts.

Sale $36.99 Retail $64.99 750ml [111820] 

GLENMORANGIE PORT CASK -QUINTA RUBAN

Inviting aromas of candied mandarin oranges, mint, nutmeg, milk chocolate, roasted walnuts, rose cordial, sandalwood, honeysuckle and flowers. The flavors continue as the scent implied revealing a plethora of delicate nuances in turn, one after another richly iterating a daedal range of exquisite tastes in a luxuriously opulent mouth-feel. The finish lingers with citrus stewed with baking spice, honey, nuts and dusted with cocoa.

Sale $36.99 Retail $69.99 750ml [111810] 

GLENMORANGIE SAUTERNES CASK - NECTAR D'OR

The nose reveals the amazing influence of Sauternes with greengage plums, apricots, icing, white tea and yellow apples. After nosing the scents turn to whisky showing oak, gentle malt and mild spice. Immensely elaborate and very intriguing. The mouth-feel is recherché filled supple flavors that are splendiferous, well structure and finespun. The finish is sensual, luscious and lengthy finely parading through each flavor ending with clean spice and a strong desire for another dram.

Sale $54.99 Retail $78.99 750ml [162310] 

GLENMORANGIE 18 YEAR OLD

An abundance of sensational aromas tease and provoke from the first sniff; candied- oily nuts in brittle toffee and milky crème brulée elegantly meld with lithesome vanilla, myriads of citrus, walnuts, caramelized honey, dates, flowers, herbs, jasmine, apricots, figs and hazelnuts. On the palate citrus leads to honey, malt and floral tones that transition into treacly nuts, date, fig and svelte back notes of woodsmoke. The finish dawdles enticing with the sublime shades of dried fruit, toasty nuts and magnificent oak spice.

Sale $75.99 Retail $138.99 750ml [111770] 

GLENMORANGIE 25 YEAR OLD

Fragile, discreet and staggeringly elegant. Beginning with aromas of persimmon, quince, apricot, plums, raspberries and honey with the tiniest bit of smoke, walnut and fresh herbs. The mouth-feel is oily, creamy and thick from the oak cellulose it gained after 25 years in a barrel. The flavor begin with the aromatics that were displayed and extend into pralines, marchpane, dates, nougat and hints of spice. The balance is impeccable. The finish goes on and on extolling ever flavor and scent again and again-- this is astounding whiskey.

Sale $499.99 Retail $799.99 750ml [166189] 

A 90-Point Parker Says “Don’t Dare Pass it By!”

The Beckstoffer name is synonymous with incredible grapes for winemaking.  While the family is most notable for the grapes they grow in the Napa Valley, Tuck Beckstoffer is showing what can be done outside the valley, as well!  He has already made a huge splash with his 75 Wine Company’s Cabernet Sauvignon from Red Hills, and new bottling, “The Sum” might surpass that!  You could say that Tuck’s wines are becoming the new standard for everyday drinkers.

The Sum is sourced from vineyards is a few different AVAs, hence the California designation, and combines that upfront, fruit-forward character with structure and balance.  And don’t think, for even a moment, that corners were cut just because this is a value-oriented wine.  To the contrary, Tuck utilizes the same techniques as some of the blue-chip, boutique wines.  He ferments the lots separately, ages them for a minimum of 14 moths in 80% new French oak, and does months of tasting and evaluations before the blend is finalized.

75 WINE COMPANY 2007 “THE SUM” CALIFORNIA PROPRIETARY RED

ROBERT PARKER 90 POINTS!  -  "The real star, and a great bargain, is the 2007 The Sum – The Seventy-Five Wine Company.  This is an absolute steal when it comes to high-class wine.  A blend of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Syrah, and 10% Petite Sirah, there are 5,200 cases of this wine, which is truly outstanding and an amazing value.  Sweet blue and black fruits, camphor, and spice box all jump from the glass of this dense, medium to full-bodied, juicy, supple wine, which is a hedonist’s dream come true.  This is a beauty to drink over the next 4-5 years.  California and Napa Valley need wines like this.  Don’t dare pass it by!"

$15.99 750ml [251060] 

A Great Wine from a Truly Historic Vintage!!!

If you haven’t heard the word, the press on the 2007 vintage from the Southern Rhône is hot and heavy.  Mr. Parker has a couple thousand words on the subject of the 2007’s but with quotes like “truly historic and profoundly great vintage,” “the vintage of a lifetime,” and “unforgettable”, you get the picture—the 2007 vintage is pretty darn good.

One of America’s foremost importers of French Wine, Robert Kacher, paid us a visit a few weeks ago and we were thrilled with his collection of wine from Nîmes.  This blend of Cabernet (60%) and Syrah (40%) from Mas de Guiot has something for everyone.  Nîmes is about 20 miles west of Chateauneuf du Papes.  Nîmes have a great year in ’07 like the rest of the Southern Rhône region.

This generously priced bottling from just outside of Nîmes shares in all that natural good fortune, showing the ‘07’s deep saturation of fruit with blueberry and black-currant balanced with cedar and gravel notes on the finish that show the Cabernet pedigree.  Sure Nîmes is pretty off-beat, but it is only 20 miles west of Chateauneuf du Papes at the mouth of the Rhône River.  When importer Bobby Kacher showed us pictures of gnarled head-pruned vines planted in fields of stones, the Rhône connection became abundantly clear.  Of course, off-beat places like Nîmes have special advantages as well: namely low yielding, old vine Cabernet Sauvignon (only 1.5 tons/acre) would not even be allowed in a place like Chateauneuf—and there’s that very attractive price as well.

$13.99 750ml [316919] 

96 Point Blow Out!!!

Thanks to a distributor liquidation purchase we are able to slash ten dollars off of our already discounted price on Dow’s 2007 vintage Port, one of the true standout Ports from this exceptional vintage.  Dow’s themselves ranks this vintage as one of their all time triumphs, calling it a “wine of very great quality with the pedigree of such wines as the Dow’s 1896, 1908, 1945, 1966 and 2000.”  Dow’s ranking amongst the finest producers of Vintage Port derives from the excellence of their two vineyards, Quinta do Bomfim and Quinta da Senhora da Ribeira, Dow’s has been a long time staff favorite due its inimitable dryer style.

DOW’S 2007 VINTAGE PORT

WINE ADVOCATE 96 POINTS - “Aromas of preserved cherries and plums with pronounced spiciness: vanilla pod, star anise and cassia. The palate is understandably tight, restrained, yet already showing superb acid / sweetness / tannin balance. Plenty of rich, spicy fruit is supported by a medium to high level of very finely grained tannins. Nice backbone of refreshing acidity. Very long finish. Drink 2020 - 2050+."

$51.98 750ml SOLD OUT

A Terrific Red Blend!!!

Our March Wine of the Month comes to us by way of our long-time friend Kevin O’Brien, owner and winemaker extraordinaire of Kangarilla Road Winery in Australia’s McClaren Vale Region. Kevin has been making consistently good wines for many years and his latest release is a terrific value-priced red blend from multi-appellation vineyards. “Hellbent” is Kevin’s response to the recent high demand for value-priced wines that deliver a level of quality that exceeds their price. He’s definitely succeeded!

The 2008 vintage was a challenging one and a continuance of Australia’s worst drought in recent memory. Thanks to some serious vineyard management and cooler weather earlier in the growing season, Kevin managed to eke out a very impressive wine. The Shiraz vineyards of the Southern Fleurieu and Currency Creek offer color, blackberry and spice while the McClaren Vale and Langhorn Creek Shiraz give depth and texture in conjunction with the spices, dark plum and cherry flavors associated with these regions. The Cabernet from Langhorne Creek adds dimension and complexity to round it out.

KANGARILLA ROAD "HELLBENT" 2008 SHIRAZ

"Hellbent" opens with fruit-laden aromas of dark berries, plum and dark cherry and continues on with a lush, rich, flavor-packed palate of yummy fruit and spice that really hits the spot. It’s good to know that in a sea of commercially styled, manipulated-for-the-market bargain wines there are still winegrowers committed to making really good wines that offer tremendous value to the wine drinking public like us. Cheers!!

$8.98 750ml [379957] 

Wall Street Journal’s “Flawless” Champagne Returns!!!

Last December Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher of the Wall Street Journal conducted a comprehensive tasting of estate-bottled (recoltant manipulant, or “RM”) Champagnes. Two stole the show as they concluded:  “In fact in our tasting one wine rated Delicious and one rated rare Delicious.  The Delicious wine was Jose Dhondt Blanc de Blancs which cost $51.99 [our price: $49.99, #379019] and prompted John after a single sip to say, “Now this is Champagne”…The rare Delicious wine-was Roger Coulon.  It costs $49.99 [our price: $39.99] and we declared it “flawless”.  This is the kind of wine you could give to or serve a wine lover and have a friend for life.”  Naturally with such effusive praise we quickly sold every bottle that we could get our hands on.  Well we just received another small allotment of the exact same Coulon bottling.  So, if you missed out on the first go around, opportunity is knocking one last time.

Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher have written "Tastings," the weekly wine column of The Wall Street Journal since 1998. They also are the authors of four books on wine, including "Wine for Every Day and Every Occasion."

ROGER COULON BRUT TRADITION

Gaiter and Brecher’s notes on the Coulon Brut Tradition run:  "Delicious!  Best of tasting.  Starts out pleasant, with some cookies and almonds on the nose, but after a few minutes-pow.  All the tastes meld into an absolutely beautiful, sophisticated whole with a finish that lasts and lasts.  “Not a misstep”, Dottie said.

$39.98 750ml [373782]