Our weekend wine tastings are on hiatus, but we will still be featuring select wines for discount!
We have an extensive lineup for you this week, covering a little something for everyone! And to add a little extra flair to your weekend, we’re including a line of delicious shrubs from INNA and aromatic bitters from Jack Rudy to experiment making cocktails (or mocktails!) at home!
Bundle a shrub and bitters with the Biutiful Cava for 15% off! Otherwise, all items featured are available for 10% off retail price.
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For a printable PDF of this weekend’s notes, click here!
Issac Fernandez Biutiful Cava Brut Nature NV
Origin: Spain
Retail: $13.95 | Sale: $12.05
This elegant and easy drinking Cava is produced from grapes sourced from the Western portion of Requena. It could be labeled as a Reserva due to fact that it spends 15 months on lees, as opposed to the minimum of 9 months. It is a true Brut Nature, meaning no sugar was added at the end of aging on lees. The nose delivers dry apple and pear aromas, while the palate is fairly full and round, with apple and lime flavors. This brut Cava is easily drinkable, food-friendly, and very affordable. This is the perfect crowd pleasing sparkling, so don’t hesitate to grab another bottle while you’re at it.
Macabeo, Chardonnay
*Bundle with Jack Rudy bitters and an INNA shrub of your choice for 15% off!
Jean-Marc Brocard Chablis Sainte Claire 2019
Origin: France
Retail: $26.95 | Sale: $24.25
Named after the church next to the winery, fruit for this wine comes from 30-year old vines with a south facing exposure in the village of Préhy. The soils are chalky, with alternate layers of limestone and marl containing fossilized marine bodies, giving this Chablis its fresh and vibrant minerality. Notes of lemon and green apple welcome you into the glass. On the palate the wine is soft, with ripe fruits cut by citrus, spice, and vanilla. Matured entirely in stainless steel, this is a perfect crisp white.
100% Chardonnay | Sustainable
Hermann Moser Per Due Gruner Veltliner 2018
Origin: Austria
Retail: $15.95 | Sale: $14.35
Weingut Hermann Moser is run by Martin and his wife Carmen Moser. The estate is 300 years old and is located in the village of Rohrendorf in the Kremstal wine-growing region in Lower Austria. Lime zest, almond extract, and limestone dominate the bouquet. This wine has lovely acidity with tropical fruit zest on the palette. Pair with Asian food, or bitter greens and salads.
100% Gruner Veltliner
Weingut Stadt Krems Kremstal Riesling 2018
Origin: Austria
Retail: $16.95 | Sale: $15.25
Weingut Stadt Krems was founded in 1452 as a source of revenue for the hospital of Krems and is one of the oldest wineries in Austria. The municipality of Krems still owns the 560-year old winery and is today one of the best in the region. Sourced from mainly primary rock and gravel soils on terraced sites near Stein, this dry Riesling was vinified in stainless steel tanks and bottled after a short period resting on its fine lees. It shows aromas and flavors of ripe citrus, stone fruit, and flowers, with a persistent underpinning of minerality.
100% Riesling | Sustainable
Jean Reverdy Sancerre Rosé 2018
Origin: France
Retail: $22.95 | Sale: $20.65
The Jean Reverdy estate is located in Verdigny, one of the top villages in Sancerre. It dates back to 1650 and has been in the family for 10 generations. This elegant rosé displays a beautiful light salmon pink color in the glass with essence of rose petals and red berries on the nose. The palate is crisp and lean, but the flavors are quite persistent with cherry, black currant, apricot, and redcurrant. With a mineral-laden yet creamy palate, this wine is superbly balanced and consistently delicious year after year.
100% Pinot Noir | Sustainable
Ollier Taillefer les Collines Faugéres 2017
Origin: France
Retail: $21.95 | Sale: $19.75
Francoise Taillefer and her brother, Luc, run the Ollier Traillefer estate started by their father, Alain Ollier. Set in the hills around the picturesque village of Fos, the Taillefer vines are planted in the sloping schist soils of the Faugeres appellation. This geology gives bright aromatics and sleek deep flavors to Les Collines, an organic, hand-harvested bland of Grenache, Syrah, and Carignan. This wine is long, lithe, and deliciously Languedocien. Richly concentrated, warm red fruits nicely balanced with its rounded tannins and a lovely savory finish.
50% Grenache, 20% Syrah, 30% Carignan | Organic
Navigator Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
Origin: California
Retail: $16.95 | Sale: $15.25
Sourced from multiple vineyards across California, the Navigator Cabernet Sauvignon is a complex yet easy drinking wine. Flavors of dark red fruit with notes of baking spice and coco envelop the palate and lead to a soft yet lengthy finish.
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Michael Shaps Petit Verdot 2016
Origin: Virginia
Retail: $29.95 | Sale: $26.95
Known for his innovation and winemaking expertise, Michael Shaps studied in Burgundy before coming to Virginia in the 90's, working with Jefferson and King Family Vineyards before launching his own brand. Petit Verdot is well-suited for the Virginia climate and soil. Barrel aging in 40% new French oak for eighteen months relaxes some of this varietal's heavy tannins and allows its complexity to shine. This wine has deep concentrated fruit and big tannin, along with a palate of floral, earthy and dark berries notes.
100% Petit Verdot.
INNA Shrubs
Origin: California
Retail: $18.95 | Sale: $17.05
Bay Laurel: Tastes like a springtime hike in the sunny California hills! This shrub is made from fresh bay laurel so it is bright and verdant and it will blow you away with its super herbaceousness. For cocktails, our bay LAUREL shrub pairs well with gin.
Santa Rosa Plum: This shrub is tart and delicious and features that classic santa rosa fruit-punch-plumminess with notes of cherry, spice, and amaretto. Pairs beautifully with gin. The santa rosa plum was bred by Luther Burbank in the early 1900s. He introduced this cross between a wild American plum, Japanese plum, and the apricot plum in 1907 as part of his pursuit to breed the “ideal plum.”
Marsh Ruby Grapefruit: Not too sweet, intensely grapefruity, with a touch of bitterness and bright tartness. The grapefruit peels are infused in the syrup for 6 weeks, so the resulting flavor is complex and rich and ultra-grapefruity. Add a splash of grapefruit shrub to a white (or rosé) wine to transform it into an grapefruit aperitif wine reminiscent of vin de pamplemousse. Or, keep it low ABV and simply serve the wine+shrub over ice, or for a more traditional fortified wine potency, add a splash of vodka to the glass as well.
Ginger: This potent shrub mixed with soda makes a great substitute for ginger ale. Use it in place of ginger ale in cocktails (moscow mule! dark & stormy!), pairs wonderfully with the bearss lime shrub and meyer lemon shrub.Try it with hot water for a soothing and warming cold-weather drink!
Bearss Lime: INNA uses the whole fruit - juice, pith, and insanely ultra floral zest - of bearss limes to make this shrub. What results is their most intensely flavorful citrus shrub with the highest content of delicious citrus essential oils (definitely give this shrub a shake before using). You can use this shrub in place of Roses' Lime Juice in classic cocktail recipe.
Organic.
Jack Rudy’s Cocktail Co. Aromatic Bitters
Origin: Made in Colorado
Retail:$12.95 | Sale: $11.65
Jack Rudy's bitters are a standard, approachable, and highly versatile aromatic bitters for any cocktail enthusiast. With burnt cane sugar syrup as a base, you will also find complex and nuanced notes of citrus, winter spices, and bittering agents to create a product with many uses. Use it to revisit your favorite classic cocktails like the Manhattan and the Old Fashioned. Or, simply add several generous drops to soda water or ginger ale and drink up!
Make cocktails at home! Bundle these bitters with a bottle of Biutiful Cava and an INNA Shrub of your choice for 15% off! (Originally: $45.85, Sale: $38.98)