2019 Eisele Vineyard - Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Altagracia
750ml | SKU 98881 |
11 Available
97
JS
There’s purity and focus to this wine with blackberry, blackcurrant and spices, such as nutmeg. Ink pot, bark and asphalt, too. So long and polished. Chewy tannins. Hints of stone and ash. 88% cabernet sauvignon. 7% cabernet franc and 5% petit verdot. Giv...
$149.00
1995 Emilio Lustau Anada Limited Edition Sherry (500ml)
500ml | SKU 100150 |
19 Available
100% Palomino
Añada 1995 Vintage Series
Late harvest wine matured for 29 years in ex – oloroso sherry casks following a static, oxidative aging. The 3,696 bottles were released in Spring 2024 when the wine has reached its peak.
Deep mahogany color. Intense and highly fragrant, with aromas of candied stone fruit over subtle spicy and toasty notes. Its palate is rich and mellow, balanced by a clean acidity, featuring hints of candied orange zest, vanilla, and smoked wood. Very persistent on the palate.
$89.99
2024 Emrich-Schonleber - Halenberg Grosses Gewachs (750ml)
750ml | SKU 102989 |
12 Available
95
VM
The Halenberg is often considered, along with the Auf der Ley (offered only through the German auctions) the most structured and densest and most monumental of the Grand Crus from Schönleber. It is certainly a stony and dense wine; there is always more weight, more push and depth to the Halenberg. If the Frühlingsplätzchen is a dancer, the Halenberg is a monolith – its power is its presence, and vice-versa. In youth there is both more fruit and more mineral, compared to Frühlingsplätzchen. This is one of the most statuesque and substantial GGs out there, perhaps akin to Keller’s Morstein in density and structure.
Compared to the Frühlingsplätzchen, the Halenberg is rounder and riper – at least on first opening. There is more depth, more raw and pushing citrus fruit; the register feels more yellow than green. On the palate too, while the minimalist aesthetic of Schönleber is there, the wine feels more textural, both more fruity and more mineral. On day two the wine goes full 360 and shuts down completely: the nose is like smelling the cold purity of space (albeit with maybe a tinge of Meyer lemon?) It is haunting and the reputation of the wine begins to make sense only after 24+ hours open, holy hell. This is a brilliant wine, severe, coating, dense with concentration. Wow. This is an immense wine that needs hours/days to unfurl if you are drinking sooner and will certainly age for a decade or two or longer.
-Importer notes (Vom Boden)
$110.00
2024 Emrich-Schonleber - Fruhlingsplatzschen Grosses Gewachs (750ml)
750ml | SKU 102988 |
12 Available
95
VM
This is the Grand Cru sites with what I think is the greatest name out there – pronounced “Froooh-lings-PLATS-shen.” Go ahead and say it, it’ll make you feel good. It translates, roughly, to “little place of spring.” While the Halenberg is the denser, more monumental wine, with likely more stuffing and structure to age longer, I’ll admit the Frühlingsplätzchen is my favorite. There, I said it. I just love the soaring aromatics, the sharpness of the wine, the linear lightness and delicacy. They are rarely about fruit as much as they are about a saline quality, mineral and flower. This is a superb, superb GG that dances on the palate like a good old Spätlese Trocken… even Kabinett Trocken?
Importer notes (Vom Boden)
$95.00
2024 Emrich-Schonleber - Niederberg Kabinett (750ml)
750ml | SKU 102990 |
18 Available
95
VM
The 2024 Riesling Monzinger Niederberg Kabinett is full of stone and lemon aromas on the nose. Citrus takes the lead on the palate, with its exquisite zestiness and tender sweetness that rounds it out. This remains essentially refreshing, exciting and ...
$49.99
2016 Fanti San Filippo - Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Le Lucere
750ml | SKU 90665 |
6 Available
94+
WA
This special selection of fruit from San Filippo is characterized by more intensity and concentration compared to the estate's classic Brunello. In this vintage, I also discovered a greater level of Sangiovese purity and direction, thanks to tight berry t...
$229.00
2019 Favia - Red Blend Napa Valley La Magdalena
750ml | SKU 93053 |
5 Available
97
VM
The 2019 La Magdalena is a Cabernet Franc-based blend from Oakville Ranch. It possesses tremendous mid-palate weight and density. Tasting it next to the Cerro Sur is so fascinating, as both wines are Franc-based and yet completely different. Red cherry...
$255.00
2019 Favia - Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
750ml | SKU 93054 |
7 Available
97
VM
Another standout in this range, the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville is a huge, potent wine. Bright acids and veins of tannin confer power to this brooding, sumptuous Cabernet from Oakville Ranch. Dark red purplish fruit, rose petal, spice, cedar and c...
$255.00
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