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Top 10 Summer Wines Under $20
 #10: 2014 Domaine Les Grands Bois Cotes du Rhone Viognier $18
This is GRAND Viognier. Structured, balanced, terrific notes of pear, peach, & apricot. This is sophistcated wine at a great price point.
 #9: 2012 Pierre Boniface Savoie Apremont Vieilles Vignes $18.50
From 60+ year old Jacquere vines nestled in the French Alps. Green apple, honeydew melon, fresh cut flowers with a stony minerality. Superb picnic wine!
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 #8: 2014 Muga Rioja Rose $14
Refered to as THE Rose of Spain, this vintage offers beautiful aromas of white peach, strawberry, and cherry. Very fresh and somewhat intense, but bone-dry, crisp and unbeatable. |
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 #7: 2013 H.B. Picpoul de Pinet $11.50
Exotic with aromas of grapefruit, lychee, finger lime, with nice acidity, and a beautiful finish. Perfect warm weather wine.
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 #6: 2014 Cordon Sauvignon Blanc Happy Canyon $14
Perhaps the best valued wine in SB County. Expressive, crisp, & elegant. Forget afternoon tea and grab a bottle or two! |
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 #5: 2014 Bonnet-Huteau Muscadet "Les Dabinieres" $15.50
Lively, complex, almost profound when paired with a half dozen oysters. Take a bottle to your favorite seafood place.
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 #4: 2010 Ramirez de la Piscina Rioja Crianza $18
This is tasty wine, great with roasted lamb, or a burger straight off the grill. Old world Rioja at its best.
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 #3: 2013 Franz Etz Gruner Veltliner 1.0 Liter bottle $15.50
We love this wine. It's vibrant, expressive, groovy juice. Great as an appretif, or with grilled swordfish, scallops, and yes, oysters.
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 #2: 2012 Novellum Chardonnay $13.50
From the South of France. This is crowd-pleasing, genius
juice in a bottle. Soft, lush, inviting. It's an everyday sipper that drinks way above its sticker price. |
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 #1: 2014 Moulin de Gassac Guilhem Rose $10
Nope, not a typo. It's ten dollars. You'll taste it and ask if we mis-priced the wine. But we didn't. It's that good. Crisp, dry, romantic. Grab a bottle and a blanket and head to the beach. This is sunset wine. |
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Mix and Match 6 bottles and our Top 10 wines discount a further 10% .
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This is a great way to begin Summer!
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Join Our Weekday Wine Club!
Four times a year, we will ship you a mixed case of our favorite everyday Wines.
These are wines we enjoy on a Tuesday in the backyard,
or at Movie Night with friends. They over-deliver on quality
yet don't break the bank.
Perfect for everyday enjoyment.
Click here for full details
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Spectacular New Arrivals
 
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Ladies Tasting (but everyone's invited) is Monday, June 29 from 5-7pm.
5 Wines, 5 Dollars.
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July 16: Bastille Day Tasting
5-7pm. Reservations Recommended.
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La Cultivada Extra Virgin Olive Oil 500ml tin $22.50
100% Hojiblanca grown at 1000 feet in elevation in a dry Mediterranean climate. Farming is all organic
and fruit is harvested by hand. Olives are crushed within two hours of harvesting to lock in the freshest oil
possible. Incredibally fresh, with bright clear flavors of apple, grass, tomato leaf, and vegetables. Fantastic
on grilled bread and tomato, rice dishes, salads, and fish.
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Bonamini DOP Veneto Valpolicella Extra-Virgin Olive Oil 500ml $26
50% Favarol 50% Grignan. Beautiful straw color with light green edges, gorgeous aromas of banana, lettuce,
apple, and grass. Very fresh. Complex flavors of banana fruit, celery and grass follow on the palate; incredibly
round and creamy. Excellent all around olive oil for the kitchen. Try soft frying farm fresh eggs, homade aioli,
finishing grilled white fish, vegetable risotto, and serve on desserts like lemon pound cake.
97 points – Flos Olei Guide 2014
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Frantoio Riva 46 Parallelo Blue Label Extra Virgin Olive Oil 500ml $32
100% Casaliva olives from 10,000 trees averaging 130 years in age grown on the north shore of Lake Garda. A gorgeous
olive oil. Nice, grassy aromas and flavors with apple, lettuce, celery, and basil. So
smooth and creamy, rich but elegant at the same time. Use to finish just about anything in the kitchen, soft fry eggs,
fresh salads, soups, and all types of seafood. Pour raw on fresh shucked oysters.
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Oleoestepa Egregio Extra Virgin Olive Oil 500ml $20
Oleoestepa is known as one of the great producers of olive oil.
Certified organic, BIOFACH Best Organic Olive Oil in the World
A blend of Hojiblanca, Arbequina, Picual and Manzanilla produced from USDA and EU certified organic groves. A complex olive oil with a gold yellow color and green edges. Ripe fruit flavors are mixed with aromas and flavors of grass, green olive and artichoke. Pepper and spice are present but not strong. Wonderful on fresh tomatoes, bean soups, cold soups and rice dishes.
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De Carlo Tenuta Torre di Mossa Extra Virgin Olive Oil 500ml
$24
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100% Coratina from the single site Tenuta Torre di Mossa. Age of trees unknown, but range from 120 to over 200 years
old. One of the great jewels in Italian oil production. Deep gold-green color, packed with aromas of olive, sage, artichoke
, and green almonds. The taste is very strong, with black pepper and spice notes very high. Flavors of green lettuce and artichoke.
ONE OF ITALY’S GREATEST OLIVE OILS. Great on fresh burrata, pasta with tomatoes, and steamed vegetables.
98 points – Flos Olei Guide 2014
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