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Shipping alcohol across state lines is a highly regulated affair often governed by prohibition-era policies. It is also an incredibly dynamic environment with the laws changing constantly. We will do our best to get you your wine as quickly, and as safely as possible. Thanks for your understanding here.
If an order is placed on a Thursday or Friday, it will be shipped the following Monday to avoid deliveries sitting in a UPS warehouse over the weekend. Applies to most orders except UPS Temp Control.
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Chardonnay “Sonoma County” 10
After five successive vintages with this wine, we are finally achieving what we set out to do. Omitting fruit sources that haven’t performed and refining those that have, has left us with what may be the most “complete” So-Co to date. The 2010 is a blend of Stuhlmuller Vineyard (Alexander Valley), Mazzera Vineyard (Dry Creek), Ricci Vineyard (Carneros), and Woolsey. The wine features a core of citrus (mostly lemons) and chalky minerality. Adding complexity are notes of fresh meyer lemon and river stones.
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Price: $20.00
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Chardonnay "Carneros," Sonoma 09
The 08 Chardonnay Carneros sold-out in just six months. In 09, we doubled our tonnage with grower Dale Ricci and determined ourselves to make an even better wine. Mother Nature complied, giving us a long, cool growing season and the first abundant crop since 2005. We picked the fruit earlier than last year (and well before most in the region) to accentuate that brisk Carneros acidity. What results is a wine that outshines its appellation. Gone is the tropical fruit character of 2008. The 09 shows an urgent minerality. It has intense lemon-lime notes, and a mouthwatering savory note likened only to dried herbs. *90 points TANZER*
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Price: $30.00
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Chardonnay "Russian River Valley," Sonoma 10
When esteemed grower John Balletto offered up some of his older-vine Chardonnay on the western edge of the Russian River Valley, we happily relocated our appellation series Chardonnay from Carneros. While this vineyard is technically RRV, it reminds of us more of the Sonoma Coast. Standing amongst the vines, you feel an ocean-cooled wind and smell the brininess of the Pacific. The resultant wine is lithe, finishing at a modest 12.3%, but shows the late-ripening, low-yield concentration of 2010 in its stone fruit and mineral expression. A hit with our sommelier friends--stop by A-16 or Redd for a glass.
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Price: $30.00
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Chardonnay “Charles Heintz Vineyard,” Sonoma Coast 08
With four vintages behind us at Heintz, we are beginning to understand (and better interpret) the potential of this magic site. The 08 was picked even earlier than the 07 and benefits from lower alcohol and higher acidity. It somehow achieves this svelte profile without compromising the sappy Heintz fruit. The hallmark traits of the vineyard are broadcast loud and clear--the orange blossoms, the profound clay minerality, the burnt sugar--and all of it kissed by a cooling saline quality that begs for scallops, crab, and seabass. *91 points TANZER*
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Price: $45.00
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Chardonnay "Hanzell Vineyard," Sonoma Valley 09
When Hanzell owners Bob and Jean Sessions offered us some fruit we had to pinch each other. The mythic Hanzell Vineyard-- whose estate wines are prized by collectors the world over for their extreme ageability-- doesn’t sell fruit. Hadn’t sold fruit for 53 years. And now this? Us? We obliged and can now proudly offer you a very limited bottling of precious Hanzell Vineyard Chardonnay. The wine shows the tell-tale signs of the vineyard—the hazelnuts, the lemon-honey, the stony minerality. Drink one now, put away the other eleven bottles. *92 points TANZER*
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Price: $45.00
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Chardonnay “Demuth Vineyard,” Anderson Valley 09
After the abysmal yield this farmer got in 07 & again in 08, he threatened to rip out these virused old vines and start over. We begged him not to. This Chardonnay vineyard clutching impossibly to the side of a mountain was something special and replanting it would change everything. In the 11th hour, he conceded, and offered us a 3-year fruit contract! Any attempt to avoid hyperbole here is futile. This is the best Demuth we have made yet. Period. End of story. With 12.6% alcohol you’ll wonder: is this Chablis or Muscadet?, cuz it sure ain’t California Chardonnay. *94 points Wine & Spirits Magazine* *92 points Decanter Magazine* *92 points TANZER*
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Price: $35.00
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Chardonnay "Michaud Vineyard,” Chalone 08
In 2008, a record spring frost wreaked havoc up and down the coast. It was particularly cruel in the lofty Chalone Pinnacles AVA. We bottled a paltry 38 cases of super-concentrated, remarkably pure 08 Chardonnay “Michaud Vineyard” Chalone. The wine smells like liquid quartz, manzanita bush, and fresh green herbs. It is all about soil in the way that the great wines from Chablis, Loire, and Mosel are. The coolness of the vintage translated to a lithe, low alcohol wine that begs for shellfish from the nearby Monterey Bay.*91 points TANZER*
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Price: $45.00
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Pinot Blanc "Antle Vineyard,” Chalone 10
When grower Bob Antle called us and offered up some of his Pinot Blanc our first response was: we don’t produce Pinot Blanc. When he explained that the vineyard had been planted by the late, great Dick Graff on a steep hillside above our cherished Michaud Vineyard, in chalky white soil—we suddenly got interested. This is a wine of place to be sure. It is decidedly distinct from the chardonnay we farm in the vineyard below. It smells like pie crust, golden delicious apples, and ground up rocks. The attack is broad and rich—the way Pinot Blanc from Alsace can be—but before it gets cloying, a palate-cleansing acidity takes hold of the reins. We got 2 tons from Bob, and made 120 cases. The Slanted Door in San Francisco is doing their best to claim it all.
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Price: $23.00
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Indica Rose 10
The 2010 Indica Rose marks a return to the source of our inspiration: Europe. We wanted to take our Rose drier, lighter, and lower alc. In 2010, Mother Nature delivered us just the kind of vintage we needed to achieve this. It is made from 100% organically farmed, old-vine Carignan and it shows the salmon hue of the Provencal wines that inspired it. An old-world style Rose with a distinctive kiss of California sunshine. This wine was extremely popular early in the summer, and there are a scant 6 cases left. Next year, we’ll hope to make more!
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Price: $16.00
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Indica, Mendocino 09
Our 2009 Indica is a blend of old-vine Carignan and Petite Sirah from Alvin
Tollini's vinyard, plus a nice dollop of gnarly old Grenache from Bill Crawford's McDowell Vineyard. The resultant wine is more red fruited than the 08 with some high-tone floral notes that remind us of the everyday country wines from the south of France. This is just the kind of wine we'd like to see California producing on a mass scale (instead of pricey Cabernet). Wine to drink without pretense, without occasion. This is truly "wine as groceries."
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Price: $20.00
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Pinot Noir "Hirsch Vineyard," Sonoma Coast 09
We’ve waited for three long years to be able to offer you this wine again. At last the call came from David Hirsch offering us a small amount his precious fruit. This wine is quite different from the one we made in 06--it is darker, deeper, and somehow more lithe and more powerful. Wild strawberries and dried porcini mushrooms bound from the glass. Then it’s pine cone resin and oolong tea. The coastal forest is alive in this wine! But perhaps what distinguishes it is its persistence and complexity—in much the same way it does with Grand Cru Burgundy.
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Price: $60.00
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Pinot Noir "Michaud Vineyard,” Chalone 07
A reasonable parent would never admit to a favorite child. But who can be reasonable when presented with such utter brilliance? Tasting the wine from barrel, super-star sommelier Jason Alexander called it Ambroise Corton Grand Cru. Many esteemed colleagues, upon tasting the wine last summer at Oregon’s International Pinot Noir Celebration, used the word “revelation.” Tanzer’s words: “potent, exotic, mineral-driven.” Extremely cellar-worthy. *LOW* *93 points TANZER* *10 cases remaining*
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Price: $48.00
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