HEALTH AND SPRINGTIME WINES
Here’s to your health with a couple of great bottles of wine from our amazing selection at County Line! I will introduce you to our best selling Pinot Grigio from Mendoza as well as a couple of California Pinot Noirs that are new to the market. Saving the best for last is an interesting Chardonnay from the Dundee Hills of Oregon showing floral characteristics and soft subtlety in the glass. These wines are sure to make you laugh with enthusiasm and drink with gusto as you await the spring flowers in quiet earnestness.
INACAYAL VINEYARDS, 2009 PINOT GRIGIO, MENDOZA - $13.98 – Inacayal’s vineyards benefit from variations in both temperature and an altitude of 3,000 feet above sea level. These factors both play an important role in the ripeness of the grapes, allowing natural acidity and fruit retention as they reach full maturity. The perfect balance between sugar and acidity make this wine outstanding. It has a rich, round and vivacious mouth feel. It is fresh and floral, with citrus notes mixed with white fruits and delicate traces of licorice. Our best selling Pinot Grigio.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA, 2009 VOLTRE SANTE PINOT NOIR, SONOMA COUNTY - $11.57 – Maria Zasa, Francis Coppola’s mother, with each sip of wine would offer a toast, "À votre Santé" – to your health. Profusely aromatic and elegantly textured, this Pinot Noir offers a nose redolent of cherries, spices and tea. Bright, vibrant flavors of raspberries, cloves and cranberries are accentuated by light notes of smoky minerals. Lively, structured, and long on the finish. Soft floral notes round out the base of this well structured Pinot. What a bargain from such a prestigious winery.
BLOCK NINE, 2009 CAIDENS VINEYARD PINOT NOIR, CALIFORNIA - $13.48 –Caiden’s Vineyard’s Block Nine is a small production winery focused solely on Pinot Noir. Their niche: quality Pinot Noir at an affordable price. If you aren’t particular where your Pinot grapes come from, this non-AVA California Pinot Noir based in St. Helena, Napa Valley encompasses all of the bright red fruit and toasted oak that we have come to expect from a California Pinot. Flavorful and silky in the mouth with good body, this wine shows wild strawberries, raspberry and a hints and wood to complete its complex finish.
DOMAINE SERENE, 2006 COTE SUD VINEYARD CHARDONNAY, WILLAMETTE VALLEY - $40.31 –True to the prevailing Oregon penchant for Chardonnays of subtlety and understatement, this energetic, faintly flowery wine brings together green-apple fruit, a light infusion of lemons and very noticeable hardwood spice in a well-balanced package. Propagated from the Dijon Chardonnay Clone this amazing wine is ripe and ready for the onslaught of spring.
You should be able to find a definitive wine out of these four that you can ring in the new spring season with revelry, exciting the neighbors and friends into a spring time sampling of great wines out on the front porch. Here is to our health and well being in the Spring 2011 season. I can be found at County Line Tuesday through Saturday for any of your entertaining or wine related questions. All Riedel Stemware is 20% off for the Month of April.
Enjoy!
Mark Hatwig
mark@slausa.com
479.750.7575
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