Featured Wines Archives - Page 19 of 20 - Farmstead Cheeses and Wines

14 Feb

Jomain Bourgogne Blanc

Jomain Bourgogne Blanc (Mostly Organic) If you're like me and love white Burgundy, you've be...

13 Feb

Pot de Vin

Situated in Malepère, the most westerly region of the Languedoc, Château Guilhem was built in 1791.

Then the property of the Marquis de Auberjon, it was bought by the Guilhem family in 1878. Bertrand is the fifth generation of his family to run the estate. The 85 acres of vineyards are planted mainly to Bordeaux varieties— Cabernets Sauvignon and Franc, Merlot, and Sauvignon Blanc— with some Chardonnay.

13 Feb

Fableist Albariño

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Fableist Albariño – Organic

Between Fableist, Wonderwall, Neverland, Fiction and Field Recordings, we carry more wines made by Andrew Jones than any other winemaker – over 20 SKUs and growing. Why? His wines are varietally correct, reflect a sense of place, follow sustainable or organic farming practices and punch well above their weight class in the value department. The Fableist project is co-owned by Sans Liege and Groundwork owner winemaker Curt Schalchlin.

05 Feb

Obsidian Ridge Cab

Obsidian Ridge Red Hills AVA Cabernet Sauvignon (Sustainable, Fish Safe, and following some Natural vinification practices)

We’ve been carrying wines from the Molnar family for over fifteen years now. Arpad Molnar lives in Oakland, and his brother Peter lives in Berkeley. The partriarch of the two brothers lives in Piedmont. These guys are local.

We particularly love their Lake County Obsidian Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon.

05 Feb

Drink Wine Day

February 18 is Global Drink Wine Day!(Like we need an excuse!) What's next. National Bre...

29 Jan

Coenobium

Coenobium (Organic, Natural)

Coenobium

A Trebbiano, Verdicchio, Malvasia Bianco and Grechetto blend made by — get this — nuns, at a monastery just north of Rome.

Unfiltered and organic, this hazy, strawberry-blonde wine is part of a growing group of so-called orange or amber wines. These wines are vinified essentially like red wine: left in much longer contact with the grape skins than is normally the case with white wines, so that the fermenting grape juice takes on a slightly tannic and dry, delicious, cider-like quality.

29 Jan

Jacky Blot Sparkling Montlouis

Domaine de Taille aux Loups (Jacky Blot) Montlouis sur Loire Petillant ‘Triple Zero’ NV (Organic)
Vinous: “Jacky Blot has been instrumental in taking Montlouis out of Vouvray’s shadow and establishing for it a reputation of its own. Much of what he has done appears old hat today, but it was revolutionary at the time: organic viticulture, hand harvests, wild yeasts, barrel fermentations and no malolactic conversions

29 Jan

Handley Pinot Noir

Handley Cellars Pinot Noir, Anderson Valley (Organic)

Centuries ago, Pinot Noir earned a reputation among the winemaking monks of Burgundy for expressing terroir better than any other variety in the region. Today, wines from California’s remote Anderson Valley American Viticultural Area (AVA) show that the grape does the same in their neighborhood. The 15-mile-long valley sits just 10 miles from the cool, blustery Pacific Coast, and the appellation is dotted with great sites to grow Pinot Noir.Anderson Valley’s appeal to Pinot makers is its cool climate. It facilitates the sort of elegant, restrained Pinot more akin to Oregon’s Willamette Valley or Burgundy than sunnier climes to the south like Napa, Sonoma and Santa Ynez Valley, regions that tend to turn out bigger, riper, plumper wines.

21 Jan

Sparkling Wine Club

Lately, I find that I am drinking way more bubbly wine; there’s always a bottle ready to go in my refrigerator. And there should be in yours as well.

We tend to eat more stews and braises in the cooler months, and Champagne has a way of going with most foods, as its bright acidity cuts through fat like a laser beam; it cleans your palate and refreshes your spirits (and, if not, it’s always a great way to start off the evening!).

21 Jan

Bargain Wine Club

Our Bargain Wine Club is perfect for the everyday wine drinker who doesn’t want to break the bank while uncorking a Tuesday night wine to go with dinner.