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Bodega Chacra Pinot Noir Rio Negro Barda 2008, 750ml
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Movia Ribolla 2007
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Our Price: $26.00
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Our Price: $30.53
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This is the entry level Pinot Noir from the estate. It's easy, supple sipping provides for the perfect everyday wine, and is one of the great values in the whole Pinot category. Just two thousand cases are produced and this wine will not be available for long. An IWM favorite, it is one of our top picks.
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Known as Rebula in Slovenia and Robola in Greece, Ribolla wines are generally dry and buttery, possessing good acidity in their youth. However, age moderates this grape’s juvenile vivacity and many age well, developing a mature richness.
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Movia Pinot Grigio 2007
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Movia Sauvignon 2007
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Our Price: $30.73
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Our Price: $30.73
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While many oenophiles may feel it obligatory to dismiss all Italian Pinot Grigio, Friuli’s top producers consistently demonstrate this varietal’s eminent worth and range. Most regard it as a fairly light, quaffable wine, but Movia’s version expresses the wine’s broader dimensions in a full-bodied version that delivers generous tropical fruits, acacia honey, underlying minerality, and a creaminess reminiscent of crème brûlée. While Movia’s Pinot Grigio is grown exclusively in Friuli, the vinification facilities are situated across the border in Slovenia.
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Sauvignon Blanc is reinvented at Movia. Grassy gooseberry aromas are the trademark of New Zealand’s take on this international varietal. It exhibits a softer, more subtle dimension in the wines of Bordeaux, where it figures in blends with Sémillon. Movia, however, does not reference either of these popular expressions in its interpretation. This unique Sauvignon is derived from a clone of the grape found exclusively in one plot of the Movia estate. A subtle version—i.e., less “green” than typical Sauvignon—this wine is laden with floral and tangerine notes. While possessing a high level of acidity, this element is integrated into the wine through aging in new oak on its lees for 20 months, which fashions a voluptuous character and supple finish.
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Chave St Joseph Blanc Celeste 2007, 750ml
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Movia Veliko Bianco 2005, 750ml
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Our Price: $33.41
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Our Price: $39.84
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Movia, in addition to his monovarietal bottlings, crafts standout cuvées that reflect the rich style captured by their solo-varietal relations. Each vintage of Movia's “Great White”—Veliko Belo in Slovenian—constitutes a blend of varying proportions of Ribolla, Chardonnay, Sauvignon, and Pinot Grigio that is aged for a three-year period in oak. Floral suggestions on the nose are succeeded by a full palate featuring persimmon, apricot, baked apple, and white flowers. This elegant and age-worthy offering represents a superb value.
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Bodega Chacra Merlot Rio Negro Mainque 2007, 750ml
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Movia Pinot Nero 2003
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Our Price: $42.50
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Our Price: $49.80
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This singular vineyard at Bodega Chacra is of thick, pure, gnarled Pinot Noir vines, plants from their own rootstock producing tiny bunches of small, concentrated berries which are harvested by hand. No automated mechanization is used at any stage of the production process
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Like Movia's whites, maturation is performed exclusively in small Slavonian oak casks. Racking is never performed, and the fining and filtering procedures are governed by the atmospheric pressure incurred by the arrival of the new moon. This constitutes a wholly natural approach that presents the wines in a state of brilliant clarity. This Pinot Noir’s luscious depth is surprising given Brda’s cool climate; the flavor suggests black cherries and wild herbs.
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Roger Coulon Brut Nature Esprit de Vrigny NV, 750ml
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Bodega Chacra Pinot Noir Rio Negro Cincuenta y Cinco 2007, 750ml
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Our Price: $78.54
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Bottle Price : $80.00
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Zero dosage allows the terroir to express itself. Esprit is evocative of the Premier Cru from whence it derives an unadulterated expression that is a raw energy, an impressionistic and deeply writ rendering of the earth, an intellectual guidepost to a very particular place.
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Spicy, aromatic, balanced and supple, Bodega Chacra Cincuenta y Cinco is a stellar New World Pinot Noir. Bright red fruit notes include cherries, strawberries and currants layered with flavors of cloves, roses and sandalwood in a long, lingering and weighty finish. The 2007 is ready to drink now or may be cellared for the short-term.
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Bodega Chacra Pinot Noir Rio Negro Cincuenta y Cinco 2008, 750ml
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Didier Dagueneau Pouilly Fume Buisson Renard 2003, 750ml
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Our Price: $80.00
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Our Price: $92.00
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Spicy, aromatic, balanced and supple, Bodega Chacra Cincuenta y Cinco is a stellar New World Pinot Noir. Bright red fruit notes include cherries, strawberries and currants layered with flavors of cloves, roses and sandalwood in a long, lingering and weighty finish.
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Chateau Grillet 2005, 750ml
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Bodega Chacra Pinot Noir Rio Negro Treinta y Dos 2007, 750ml
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Our Price: $103.81
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Château-Grillet AOC is effectively an enclave of the Condrieu appellation, which also produces white Viognier-only wines. These appellations are located just south of Vienne in the northern part of the Rhône valley. The production of white wine in the Rhône region is relatively small compared to the red wines. Condrieu and Château-Grillet are the only appellations in northern Rhône that are exclusively white wine appellations.
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Piero Incisa della Rocchetta purchased the first of vineyard land, which is now Bodega Chacra. At the time this was a property with an existing, though abandoned, vineyard planted over seventy years ago. Piero was called from of his multigenerational, Italian winemaking family to the southern hemisphere, compelled by the goal to produce world-class Pinot Noir from uncharted and untested territory.
This singular vineyard at Bodega Chacra is of thick, pure, gnarled Pinot Noir vines, plants from their own rootstock producing tiny bunches of small, concentrated berries which are harvested by hand. No automated mechanization is used at any stage of the production process.
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Bodega Chacra Pinot Noir Rio Negro Treinta y Dos 2006, 750ml
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Bodega Chacra Pinot Noir Rio Negro Treinta y Dos 2008, 750ml
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Our Price: $120.00
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Our Price: $120.00
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The flagship wine of the estate, Treinta y Dos (or 1932), is the prized cru named after the eponymous vineyard, planted in 1932. The wine is produced from gnarled, seventy-year old vines which contribute to its depth and complexity. The grapes are hand-harvested and the wine itself is made with minimal intervention. Treienta y Dos is a highly-structured wine. The 2006 is seductive with notes of musky red fruit, sweet spice and rose petal and with some aeration, reveals a lush texture with nuances of black cherry, currants, and graphite.
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The flagship wine of the estate, Treinta y Dos (or 1932), is the prized cru named after the eponymous vineyard, planted in 1932. The wine is produced from gnarled, seventy-year old vines which contribute to its depth and complexity. The grapes are hand-harvested and the wine itself is made with minimal intervention. Treienta y Dos is a highly-structured wine.
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Didier Dagueneau Pouilly Fume Silex 2003, 750ml
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Dagueneau Didier Pouilly Fume Buisson Renard 2002, 750ml
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Our Price: $128.00
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Our Price: $139.95
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According to Jacqueline Friedrich, "Silex, barrel-fermented and aged, is made from 35 to 65 year-old vines on the silex-rich soils which Dagueneau believes make the most structured, 'intellectual' Pouillys. It confirms Dagueneau's view that Sauvignon is one of the most complex and subtle grapes and that its wine are as noble as white Burgundies."
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Bodega Chacra Pinot Noir Rio Negro Treinta y Dos 2006, 750ml
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Salon Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs 1997, 750ml
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Our Price: $290.00
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Our Price: $367.50
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The flagship wine of the estate, Treinta y Dos (or 1932), is the prized cru named after the eponymous vineyard, planted in 1932. The wine is produced from gnarled, seventy-year old vines which contribute to its depth and complexity. The grapes are hand-harvested and the wine itself is made with minimal intervention. Treienta y Dos is a highly-structured wine.
The 2006 is seductive with notes of musky red fruit, sweet spice and rose petal and with some aeration, reveals a lush texture with nuances of black cherry, currants, and graphite.
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Stylistically, Salon 1997 can be compared to the 1988, one of the great vintages which is just now coming to maturity.
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