Featured Wines

We offer a nice range of sparkling wines to bring in the New Year: 

Drappier Carte d'Or Brut, Non Vintage Champagne

The Carte d'Or cuvée is the very expression of the Drappier style. With its very high proportion of Pinot Noir (80%), one is almost tasting a Blanc de Noirs. It opens with aromas of stoned fruits such as white vineyard peach. A spicy hint announces a powerful complex palate. A vinous Champagne of lovely complexity with a characteristic note of quince jelly.

$49.95/bottle

Drappier Rosé de Saignée, Non Vintage Champagne

Drappier is one of the few Champagne Houses producing Rosé by the saignée method. Several days of maceration give this cuvée an intense color marked by the Pinot Noir.  On the nose there are hints of red fruits and violet with a lightly spiced note. Receiving only a light dosage, on the palate it is remarkably expressive and extremely fresh, with a subtle trace of licorice in the finish.

$68.95/bottle

Monthuys Pere et Fils Brut Reserve Champagne

Bright gold color with almond and citrus on the nose. Nice citrus notes with a pretty mousse. Toasty and creamy on the finish. Lovely and a great price.

$39.95 / 750 ml bottle  | $23.95 / 375 ml bottle

Cafe de Paris 

Bordeaux, France

Café de Paris is an over 100 year old winery located in Bordeaux. Wines are made in the Charmat method with extended batonage to give them some nice yeasty notes and complexity. Café de Paris is made in an easy, thirst quenching and fresh style. We have a white and rosé available. 

Brut Sparkling Blanc de Blancs

The nose is expressive with citrus and floral notes. Well-balanced aromatic freshness with citrus notes and fine bubbles.  Made from Colombard and Sauvignon Blanc grapes. 

$14.95/bottle

Cafe de Paris Rosé Brut

A beautiful wine with shades of rose petals dressed with a string of fine and abundant bubbles. A fine and light nose with aromas of red fruits (strawberry, raspberry) and sweet pears. Fresh and thirst-quenching, with delicious notes of red berries and a nice roundness.

$14.95/bottle

2018 Kenefick Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon, Chris's Cuvée

Located in Calistoga, Kenefick Vineyards is devoted to producing high quality Bordeaux and Rhone varietal wines, evidenced by this delicious 2018 Kenefick Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon, Chris’s Cuvée. Sitting on prime grape-growning land, the 125 acre vineyard has a range of microclimates and soil compositions which adds complexity to the resulting wines. The land has supported vineyards since the late 1800s. The current family winery was originally purchased by Dr. Tom Kenefick in the late 1970s from the then owner, a man who still plowed the land with a horse-drawn plow (which was included with the sale!). He spent the next 20 years replacing the Italian varietals already planted with Bordeaux and Rhone varieties. While Tom passed away in 2021, his family continues the tradition of vineyard management and quality wine making.

This featured wine is a full-bodied, complex wine that would pair well with heavier meats and even BBQue. It has lovely flavors of chocolate and tobacco, along with dark, intense black fruits with soft, but powerful tannins, and a long, velvety finish. It's really a stunning wine!

About the Wine: 

The Blend:  88% Cabernet Sauvignon 7% Petit Verdot 5% Malbec

Production Notes: 4 day cold soak, 14 day fermentation at 90F. Twice daily aerated pump-overs until below 1Brix. Delistage process three times during fermentation.

Production Notes

4 day cold soak, 14 day fermentation at 90F. Twice daily aerated pump-overs until below 1Brix. Delistage process three times during fermentation.

Barrel Aged: 18 months

Bottle aged: 12 months

2018 DOMAINE GRAND VENEUR

COTES DU RHONE 'LES CHAMPAUVINS'

The Grand Veneur Les Champauvins has long been hailed as a great Cotes du Rhones, and a true “Insider’s Wine.” That's because it's basically a Chateauneuf du Pape. The Les Champauvins vineyard sits just 3 meters from the famed vineyards and cellars of Chateau Beaucastel. You can see how close it is on the map included on the right.

This wine comes from a site just 3 meters away from one of the great Chateauneuf producers, with the same large galets or stones that Chateauneuf du Pape is known for. These rocky, well-drained soils stress the vines to yield highly concentrated flavots in the grapes.  They also absorb heat during the day, and radiate it out at night, warming the vines and ripening the grapes. Additionally, poor soil lies beneath these rocks, further stressing the grapes in their search for nutrients and moisture. The result? Powerful, concentrated and intense flavors that are are a statement of the terroir producing them. 

The blend here is 70% Grenache, 20% Syrah and 10% Mourvedre, all from old, organically farmed vineyards. Full-bodied and dense yet rich, ripe and elegant, this drinks like a $40-$50 Chateauneuf du Pape, yet is only $25.95!

This wine presents it all!  Full body, a heady bouquet of ground pepper, raspberries, cherries, and exotic spices. Classic garrigue - lavender, sage, rosemary and thyme - wraps itself around the core of fruit and provides balance and elegance. Fine tannins and an underlying minerality round out the package, making this a complete knock-out! And as well as it is drinking now, it will only get better. While it drinks well now, cellar it for a few more years for it to achieve its full potential!  

The Blend:  70% Grenache, 20% Syrah and 10% Mourvedre, all from old, organically farmed vineyards

Production Notes: Traditional vinification in stainless steel tanks.

Barrel aged: 12 months

2019 Ilaria Cabernet Sauvignon

Winemakers Anna Mario Monticello introduce their vineyard using these words on their website: 

"In vino felicitas. In wine there is happiness. There is also truth, as we have been reminded, and one of the truths in my life is to make wine. My goal is to craft unique lots that are not shy about expressing their heritage – the soil and climate in which they were grown, where that combination of great terroir and viticultural expertise merge."

It's this dedication and commitment to the winemaking process that drives the production of this truly delicious bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon!  "Deep garnet-purple colored, it skips out of the glass with lively notes of wild blueberries, black cherries and menthol, plus hints of pencil shavings and bay leaves. Medium to full-bodied, it has a serious structure with flirtatious, flamboyant fruit, offering plenty of layers and an earthy finish." (Wine Advocate 94 pts.)

About the Wine:

• Varietals: 94% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Malbec, 3% Petit Verdot
• Aged 22 months in oak
• 560 cases produced
• Vineyards: Atlas Peak, Howell Mountain

The Spanish region of Montsant, about 85 miles southwest of Barcelona, is well known for the Garnatxa (Grenache) wines. This lovely example will not disappoint! The grapes are from a 6-acre vineyard planted with 25-year-old Grenache vines. This vintage has graphite notes over a core of ripe red and black berries. Only 351 cases produced.

Luis Gutierrez of Robert Parker describes the wine as: “It has character and keeps its freshness, easy to drink.”

This wine is 100% Roussanne, a varietal from the northern Rhône, where it is most often blended with Marsanne to create that region's delicious white blends.  It is a white grape, named after the color of its skin when ripe, which is a reddish-gold, a color that in French is "roux".  While most plantings in France are in the Northern Rhône, it also is grown in the southern Rhône, around Châteauneuf-du-Pape. 

On its own, as it is in this wine, Roussanne is quite delicious.  It can have have herbal, tea-like aromas, along with pear, meyer lemon, and even honey. It can be quite intense! 

This lovely wine is from the Southern Rhone, where the warmer climate and extended ripening season brings out more tropical fruits, such as lush mango, creamed pineapple, pears, and melon. It has an exuberant and perfumed nose, with hints of marmalade, buttered citrus and orange rind.

$19.95

• Grape Varieties: 100% Roussanne

• Grower: Phillipe Teulon, 7th generation grower at this estate since 1696.
• Village: Saint Gilles, in Costières de Nimes
• Soil: The Costières soil is made of Rhône rocky alluviums, better known as brownstone.
• Vinification: Hand harvesting, Organic herbicides use, no pesticides and the utilization of sustainable agriculture which respects the environment established by the Forum de l'Agriculture Raisonnée Respecteuse l'Environnement. Three passes in the vineyard, for only, unbroken healthy grapes.

Vin Santo is a very special dessert wine which originates in Tuscany, Italy. The sweet wine is produced using the 'passito' method, where harvested grapes are dried for several months in open air. After much of the juice has evaporated, concentrating the sugars and flavors, the raisin-like grapes are pressed. As would be expected, there is a very limited amount of pressed juice, leading to the preciousness of this lovely wine. 

This 2012 wine from Fattoria Montellori is. made from 100% Trebbiano grapes, which are dried after harvest on rough mats until March.  They are then fermented in small barrels -- which they call Caratelli -- where it remain maturing for 5 years. It is then bottled for further aging.  

It is a rich amber/gold color, with flavors of dried fruits and honey, with a perfumed nose.  Perfect with hard cheeses, sweet almond cakes, custard, almond cookies or some dried fruits. This a truly remarkable wine!

This is a limited wine, so don't hesitate to buy it today! 

$39.95.