This Week's Tasting
Inventory Sale: Post card from Lake Winebegone
January 15, 2020
Soon we’re going to be counting our bottles. We are discounting a few excellent wines to reduce what we have to count. Some were already reduced from their previous prices and are now incredible values in our sale.
You’ll find an eclectic mix of proven delicious drinks in this group. Among the more special wines:
A fine premier cru estate champagne that we reintroduced to this area at a price already discounted 20% from what it had been.
Five Pinot Noirs to drink now; Single vineyard and reserve California and Oregon. A surprise from South Africa, and definitely not least, one from a top-flight burgundy producer with a production pedigree equal to that of many more expensive wines. Francis Ford Coppolla’s smooth and sumptuous 1882 Inglenook Estate Cabernet, and a fine, rich Pinot-like estate Etna Rosso.
The whites: An exotic Rhone blend from a top producer, a fine white burgundy and a delicious Tuscan Vernaccia
How it works: we have between one and five cases of these wines, They can be ordered by email - Some may sell out before the tasting. We will open on request for tasting any that we still have.
Take 15% off for any 6 to 11 bottles of any of the wines below; 20% off 12 or more.
Sale prices good only until Friday or wine has sold.
Was Now 6 -11 mixed 12+ mixed
Champagne
Nicolas Maillart Brut Champagne Platine 50 $40.00 $34.00 $32.00
Aroma: Rather full spicy fresh mineral very flinty; Mouth: Clean light very pretty r fruity, very ripe sweet fleshy; Very Good - Excellent
Red
2014 Quilceda Creek CVR Red $85.00 $72.25 $68.00
Robert Parker – “One of the finest examples of this cuvee to date, the opulent, sumptuous and downright sexy 2014 Cvr Columbia Valley Red Wine gives up loads of black currants, kirsch, licorice, toasted spice and dried herb aromas and flavors. Full-bodied, gorgeously textured, round, and just about as hedonistic as it gets, yet without being over the top or heavy in the least, drink it anytime over the coming decade.”
2014 Patz & Hall Pinot Noir Chenoweth 70 $59.00 $50.15 $47.20
Robert Parker “a deep ruby/purple color, loads of raspberry and black cherry fruit, a hint of cola, baking spices and loamy soil undertones. The wine is lovely, medium to full-bodied, rich and complex. Look for it to drink well for up to a decade.”
2014 Adelsheim Elizabeth's Reserve Pinot Noir 65 $50.00 $42.50 $39.00
Vinous “Limpid ruby-red. Ripe red berry, mocha and candied rose scents show impressive clarity and energy. Sweet and pliant in the mouth, offering juicy, mineral-tinged black raspberry, cherry-vanilla and spicecake flavors that deepen steadily on the back half. Closes with impressive length and alluring spiciness while fine-grained tannins add shape and gentle grip.
2016 Lucien le Moine Bourgogne 60 $40.00 $34.00 $32.00
Color: red black in a lighter hue; Aroma: a caress of mingled sweet oak and wild cherry segues into black cherry, later with air becomes sexy & unctuous; Mouth: Like the nose a high toned drive direct and high toned, sweet tempered with an underlying touch of steel that gives it character, very good length; Very Good - Excellent
2015 St. Innocent Pinot Noir Zenith Vineyard; 35 29.75 27.99
Color: very dark black; Aroma: light fresh, deep plum reserved, rather closed, heady rich, ; Mouth: clean bright fresh, bright clan fine acidity, soft textured, , clean long; Very Good - Excellent 34; Mixed Case, 30.6; Case, 28.9
2016 B Vintner Black Bream Pinot Noir $29.99 $25.49 $23.99
Color: Medium dark; Aroma: Deeper, rather dense , very full; Mouth: Bright clean forward, good fruit, ; Very Good Plus
2016 Tornatore Etna Rosso $27.00 $22.95 $21.60
Transparent red. Inviting aromas and flavors of cherry, mineral and spice in a medium bodied balanced format. Very Good to Excellent
2014 Inglenook Cabernet Sauvignon 1882 $45.00 $38.25 $36.00
Color: medium dark opaque, ; Aroma: sweet woody spice, , nicely directly intense, rather bright; Mouth: smooth, ratter clean, fine acid , strong, rather bright clean very fine tannins, palate staining tannins on the finish, very long; Excellent
White
2015 Clos du Moulin aux Moines Pernand Vergelesses Les Combottes $40.00 $34.00 $32.00
Organic- Biodynamic; Color: light golden; Aroma: heady rather full, very dense, , closed initially woth light wood notes, later a lightly oaked fruit over stone; Mouth: juicy decent intensity some richness, soft clean ripe, soft acidity, exotic pear notes; Very Good – Excellent - for poise & balance
2016 Bernard Gripa St. Peray Les Pins $43 $29.99 $25.49 $23.99
Aroma: heady and very ripe and intense rich, very set very dense, , with almost honied, camomile notes; Mouth: dense fine acid& good minerality, thick like a lighter white Hermitage light , floral, so ripe as to be almost sweet on the finish; Excellent
2018 Montenidoli Vernaccia di San Gimignano Fiore $25.99 $22.09 $20.79
Elegant and rich with beautiful secondary aromas. Bright crisp citrus, apple and peach with a refreshing bitter note capped by salinity. Excellent
Everyday Wines
Include too small Bordeaux Château’s of amazing quality for the price, a top notch Argentine Malbec blend, a hearty Southern French red. Two white: Pinot Gris from Oregon and delicious seafood-.
Red
2015 Clos de Los Siete Malbec 26 $18.99 $16.14 $15.19
“more than 50% Malbec with Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and Petit Verdot. … a regular and harmonious wine with a commercial profile, approachable, polished and sleek. The palate is medium to full-bodied with round, lush tannins and clean flavors.” Wine Advocate
2016 Chat Puyanche Francs Cote de Bordeaux $15.99 $13.59 $12.79
Color: very dark; Aroma: heady nicely ripe , very pretty fruity with fine acidity, ; Mouth: smooth clean, nicely herbal, good character from the cabernet Franc ; Very Good
2016 Languedoc les Darons Jeff Carrel $12.99 $11.04 $10.39
Clean, fresh very juicy rich sweet, bright acid, ripe tannins, Very Good
2016 Ch. Le Clairiot Bordeaux $12.99 $11.04 $10.39
Color: medium dark; Aroma: very dense, thick, very rich, dry; Mouth: clean herbal dry, more sense of Cf than Merlot, firm, tannic, hardish tannins, a touch light in the middle; Very Good Plus
White
2017 Raptor Ridge Pinot Gris $18.99 $16.14 $15.19
Color: light tan; Aroma: heady and juicy, rather full, yellow plum & earth; Mouth: bright lemony note then fresh yellow plum, clean racy full sweet acid long finish; Very Good Plus
2018 Muscadet Sur Lie Selection Cognettes Perraud $12.99 $11.04 $10.39
Aroma: Fleshy rather full fat rather rich; Mouth: Clean light fresh tight set acid nutty & herbaceous with nicely rounded fruit; Very Good
Order by phone at 617.367.8605, or reserve here: order@federalwine.com
- Len Rothenberg
