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This bottle has flavors of lemon meringue, wild strawberries, fresh ginger on the palate and a vibrant lingering finish that will be sure to whet appetites.

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This Right Bank Bordeaux estate benefits from limestone soils and over 50-year-old vines giving this Merlot-dominant, Cabernet Franc blend from the great 2018 vintage complexity and power. With its lovely bouquet of violet and cassis, it unfolds with red and black fruits flavors with hints of black truffles and stony minerality.

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A St. Émilion Grand Cru that punches way above its $60 price. Velvety and rich but balanced with great acidity. Also absolutely delicious with roast meat for your holiday dinners!

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Coming from the cooler climates, from the distant vineries in Kangarilla, the Shiraz is made from fruit fermented in open-top tanks along with wild yeasts. Playing not only with your taste buds, it teases your nose as well thanks to dominating dark fruits, giving you a feeling of winter spiciness.
The journey doesn’t end there. With every sip, the ripe fruit finishing up with the spice invites you to have another sip. Due to its spiciness, the Yangarra Shiraz is enjoyed best with steak or barbecue.

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Château Lassègue 2018

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Named after the Babylonian goddess of wine, this winemaker has spent the last twenty eight years focused on one driving goal, to create the finest Pinot Noirs ever. They have come pretty dame close with this exquisite bottle assembled from grapes primarily from the Santa Rita Hills region. Barrel blended using whole cluster and destemmed grapes it’s a wine filled with ripe raspberry and plum flavors with a smooth finish.

Obtained from 100% Cabernet Franc, the Arcanum 2016 ages in barriques (80% new) for 12 months. Son of an excellent vintage at these latitudes, it offers aromas of various timbres, from ripe berries to cedar, from resin to licorice, from balsamic herbs to tobacco, from undergrowth to spices. Material and powerful on the palate, it has a juicy and balanced development, well played between the dense tannic articulation and the acidic fragrance, which accentuates a long and persistent finish with both fruity and balsamic returns.

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Pleasing in all dimensions but outstanding on the palate with impressive strength, body, fruit and personality, as well as excellent complexity and refinement. Moreover, its long-lingering length provides a memorable finish.

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With summer now just a distant memory, many wine lovers are transitioning their go-to-wines for the upcoming cool months. La Crema produces some of the best wines for their price points out of Northern California, with footprints in Sonoma and Monterey Bay. These chards are crisp enough to cool you down but are still structured and complex. The 2019 vintage, especially presents balanced acidity, with fall-friendly notes of baked apple, brioche, and Asian pear.

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The 2020 Siduri Santa Barbara County Pinot Noir is spicy, dark and woodsy, with raspberry fruit and fine tannins.

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A Wine from a Producer That Exemplifies Sustainability:
2020 Yangarra Estate Vineyard Ovitelli Grenache (Australia, South Australia, McLaren Vale)
I am so glad that this producer satisfies two things I wanted to talk about here today: McLaren Vale Grenache and a leader in sustainability in the vineyards. The McLaren Vale Grenache story is a very important one to the global world of Grenache. Grenache, the grape that loves sun, thrives on a bit of water and throws a huge crop that is susceptible to high alcohol and robust tannins. Grenache, that in McLaren Vale has the propensity to express in a balanced, ripe, low-pH frame, littered with blood, ferrous, red fruits and a plume of tannin through the fruit that feels both firm and finely milled at once. These wines are growing up to be the pride of Australia in this space, and this Ovitelli Grenache has been matured entirely in concrete egg. The tannins derived solely from the grape. A marvel, and one that warms not just the belly but the soul too, knowing that only good things go into the biodynamic/organic vineyard, and only good things come out. A singular wine style.

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Our first wine is a 2018 La Crema Pinot Noir Fog Veil Russian River Valley – Sonoma County. The grapes for this wine come from neighboring vineyards to their Saralee’s Estate. The primary clones are Pommard and Flowers, first planted in 1996, and the wine is aged for 14 months in 100 percent French oak. The color is a ruby red. To the nose there are notes of black cherry, raspberry and baking spices. To the tongue, there is black plum and pomegranate, balanced by fine tannins, with very slight acidity. As the name implies, a late afternoon fog visits the valley daily, ensuring slow and steady ripening, leading to the grape’s slight acidity. Historically Russian River Valley pinot noirs had bright red fruit and delicate earthy, mineral notes. But changes in viticultural and winemaking practices have led to riper fruit and bolder wines, exhibiting black cherry and blackberry notes over the more traditional pinot noir notes of strawberry, raspberry and sour cherry. This is a bolder pinot noir worth trying and comparing to an Oregon or Burgundian-sourced pinot noir.

Yangarra Old Vine Grenache 2020 is complex and rich, with a nose that is fruit-driven and features dark cherries and raspberries, as well as hints of cloves and lavender. The leathery earthiness of this wine develops in the decanter, to give way to a remarkably complex and intriguing Grenache of great substance and prowess.
We recommend pairing it with roast beef and all the trimmings on a festive Sunday evening with family or friends.

Siduri Pinot Noir Anderson Valley 2020 is solid, lively, smooth from a master of pinot noir. Rich, ripe fruit dominates and enchants. It is both demure and enchanting while commanding your attention. Velvety in the mouth. Easy drinker that can pleasure a host of palates. Pair with salmon and other rich fish; turkey; roast pheasant; duck confit; venison; lighter beef dishes. Cheese—goat cheeses, brie; humbolt fog, gruyère, comté, emmenthal, gouda.

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If you prefer rosé Champagnes, Gran Moraine’s brut rosé is a graceful balance between pinot noir, chardonnay and pinot meunier grapes from the winery’s Yamhill-Carlton estate vineyards in Oregon. Multiple vintages are blended together for a house style that flirts with flavors of strawberry shortcake, juicy nectarine and watermelon rind. The dosage — a small amount of sugar plus wine added after the bottle is disgorged — is very low, allowing the quality of the wine to shine.

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Petite Beef Wellingtons
A steak and wine dinner is good. But you know what's even better? Red wine with steak topped with ooh-la-la mushroom duxelles (a mixture of mushrooms sautéed with onions, shallots, garlic, and parsley) and wrapped in puff pastry. *Chef's kiss.*
Pair it with: A light- to medium-bodied red such as Pinot Noir. Consider 2018 Siduri Pinot Noir Willamette Valley.

The Chateau's flagship wine is the Lassègue Saint-Émilion Grand Cru 2018. It is the product of unique and meticulous winemaking and pays homage to the importance of family and dedication to craftsmanship. The 2018 is a blend of 62% Merlot, 35% Cabernet Franc, and 3% Cabernet Sauvignon. The vintage exudes freshness, complexity, and power, and is a reflection of the estate's more than 50-year-old vines planted in clay and limestone soils. Present this luscious wine for sipping or pair it with your holiday foods. Because this wine has excellent potential for aging, consider gifting Lassègue Saint-Émilion Grand Cru 2018 to friends and family.

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Velvety pinot noir is the favorite varietal for the Thanksgiving meal because it goes with everything. Siduri produces a range of site-specific styles for every palate using grapes from the West Coast. Its 2020 Anderson Valley pinot noir flaunts fall notes of spice, ginger and black current.

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Sourced from multiple high-altitude Napa vineyards, this Cabernet with a touch of Merlot is a testament to winemaker Chris Carpenter’s blending skill. Eight years of cellaring at Cardinale coaxed out silky tannins and intense black-fruit flavors intertwined with notes of tobacco leaf, pencil lead and violet. While this could last another 20 years in your own cellar, nothing says “happy holidays” like pouring it now.

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Available through the winery’s 10-year rerelease program, this Merlot-dominant Sonoma blend from Bordeaux’s Seillan family has wow factor on impact. Flavors of cassis and blackberry are joined by notes of chocolate, baking spices, tobacco and cedar. Opulent tannins that have begun to mellow linger in the mouth long after the last sip.

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At high elevation in Sonoma’s Alexander Valley, Upper Barn Vineyard is regarded as one of California’s best sites for Chardonnay. Flavors of nectarine and lime with a subtle underpinning of chalk burst in the mouth amid still-fresh acidity. It is creamy on the palate with a long, elegant finish.

Not only does winemaker Shane Moore produce fantastic Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, but his 2014 Blanc de Blancs from Yamhill-Carlton is stunning, an estate-grown gem with aromas that are reminiscent of warm scones, brioche, lemon clotted cream, and mineral. The palate is lively and fresh, with fantastic concentration and propulsiveness to flavors of lemon oils, phyllo dough just out of the oven, brown butter, and green apples.

Good, creamy mousse, crisp, light cherry flavors, and lots of metallic minerality.