This Saturday, we're venturing to
Italy's hip "hip," the great northwest!
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So Many Recent Arrivals!
We've just unrolled a startling assortment of new arrivals from around the world, and if we may say so, they are absolutely all up in the house! Austria, France, Israel (see more details about the two Kosher for Passover selections from Barkan below), Italy, Spain, and the United States are represented beautifully, and our first five 2014 rosés have landed. Check it out!
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Kosher for Passover!
Two delicious, estate-produced Kosher for Passover wines have arrived from Israel's Barkan Vineyards. The wines from the estate's Ed Salzberg (pictured above) have exemplified quality, value, and great varietal character, making them our most trusted and most often returned to Passover selections year after year. Chag Sameach!
- Barkan - Chardonnay "Classic" 2014 $14.99
- Barkan - Cabernet Sauvignon"Classic" 2013 14.99
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Indy's Best of
the Triangle!
Exercise your right to vote (not to mention impeccable taste) by casting your ballot in Indy Week's annual "Best of the Triangle"! Vote for all your favorite local businesses!
(including "Local Wine Shop" in case you have your always reliable, friendly neighborhood Wine Authorities in mind)
Real Customer Comment:
"I love these wines. It's always great to try your new assortment!" (referring to the Six for $60)
- Leslie G.
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This Tuesday, March 31st, we present our FREE
midweek wine tasting! Every Tuesday is tasty...
Prepare to be dynamically un-fooled this Tuesday as we celebrate this year's impending April 1st by eroding a few falsehoods about grape varietals which are well-overdue for quashing.
Join us as we explore the fact that there's not anything inherently oaky or buttery about Chardonnay. We'll explain why there's no whisper more sweetness in Riesling that's had all of its sugar fermented into alcohol than there would be in a wine made from any other grape. We'll also tear right into the mystifyingly still fashionable anti-Merlot sentiment whose foundation was laid by overproduction and cemented by Hollywood. You won't get fooled again!
And don't forget:
Our Tasty Tuesday 15% Half-Case Discount!
After you taste, put together 6 bottles from our Tasty Tuesday lineup, and we'll take an entire 15% off!
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This Saturday from 12 to 3 PM
"try before you buy" at
our FREE tasting
Hot on the heels (pun absolutely intended) of last week's tasting of Italy's foot-shaped south, we're setting our sights further north, honing on on the country's shapely hip! Italy's northeastern regions of Friuly, the Veneto, and Lombardy (yeah, yeah, more north-central than northeast on that one) provide us with a few of the nation's most singular and unmistakable specialties. Join us as we hone in on the beautiful bubbles of Franciacorta, the elegant minerality and balance of Soave, the exotic perfume of Friuli's Friulano, and the concentrated black nectar of Valpolicella and its resplendent Ripasso. Shake your booty, Italy!
Monzio Compagnoni
Franciacorta Brut Rosato 2008
80% Pinot Noir, 20% Chardonnay
(Lombardy, Italy)
DELICATE MOUSSE, POMMEGRANATE & WHITE CHERRY, GENTLE SPICE
Not far from Milan, Lombardy's Franciacorta region has provided Italy since 1967 with an official (and very eloquent) answer to France's Champagne. Viticulture has existed here, however, much longer. Today, both the grapes used and the methods employed are, by law, modeled after those of Champagne while guidelines and restrictions are, impressively, even more stringent...
Inama
{organic} 100% Garganega (Verona, Italy)
RIPE PEAR & GOLDEN APPLE, VIBRANT FLINT, RICH ALMOND The province of Verona's signature white specialty hails from the region of Soave and is forged from its native grape, Garganega. The Inama estate is among the brightest stars of the area, robustly championing both the grape and its terroir. Stefano Inama follows in his father's footsteps, producing Soave that harnesses Garganega's potential for quality as opposed to its vigorous tendency toward quantity...
Visintini
(Friuli, Italy)
RIPE QUINCE & APPLE SKIN, WAXY ALMOND,
HONEY & GINGER
The Friulano grape's Bordelais origins are belied by its contemporary northeastern Italian name, but this signature specialty of Friuli and neighboring Slovenia has recently found the appreciation of a wider audience than ever before. Brimming with flavors that find their balance happily between the familiar and the exotic, this...
Valpolicella Ripasso 2011
65% Corvina, 30% Rondinella,
5% Molinara
BLACK CHERRY & PRUNE, CLOVE, LEATHER & TOASTY OAK
Verona's Valpolicella region is home to several distinct styles including basic Valpolicella, the dried grape version called "Amarone", and the "Ripasso" style featured here (which falls somewhere between) -- all starring the Corvina grape. The technique involved in Ripasso is to first make a regular wine from standard grapes, but in February, dried grapes...
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Hope to see you Saturday!
Our best to you,
Grand Poobah & the Wine Authorities staff
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