Weekly Specials November 6-12

Weekly Specials November 6-12

Chateau de Saint Cosme
Little James’ Basket Press NV
$12.99
Parker 88 “The non-vintage Vin de Table Little James Basket Press is created from a solera system based on 50% from 2008, and the rest from older vintages. It is always 100% Grenache and is finished with a screw cap. This beauty offers lots of spicy, peppery, black cherry, and even blacker fruits along with medium body, a tasty, satisfying style, and a remarkably low price. It is best drunk in its first 1-2 years of life.”
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Chateau de Saint Cosme
Cote Rotie 2007
$69.99
Parker 93 “Medium to full-bodied, ripe, fresh, elegant, and powerful, with pepper, tapenade, cassis, and olive characteristics dominating its explosive, aromatic nose, the dark ruby/purple-tinged, medium to full-bodied 2007 Cote Rotie is extraordinarily pungent aromatically. That characteristic will no doubt be controversial, and consumers will either love it or leave it.”
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Atalaya 2007
Almansa, Spain
$14.99
Parker 91 “This is the first release of Atalaya. The 2007 Atalaya is a blend of Monastrell, Garnacha Tintorera, and other red grapes. The wine was aged for eight months in French and American oak. This purple-colored wine has an expressive bouquet of violets, spice box, leather, game, blueberry, and black cherry. On the palate it comes off as borderline kinky and definitely sexy with lots of easy-going flavor, superb depth, complexity, and a 45-second finish. Although it can be enjoyed now, it will evolve for another 2-3 years.”

I’ve just brought this one back in. Another killer value from Jorge Ordonez. AND it’s kinky and sexy. What more could you want?
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Tres Picos
Garnacha 2008
$14.99
Tanzer 91 “Opaque purple. Exotically perfumed bouquet of dark berry preserves, smoky minerals, potpourri and Indian spices, with a strong note of cracked pepper; smells like a high-end northern Rhone wine. Very spicy and tightly focused, offering juicy red and dark berry flavors and sexy notes of candied flowers and cocoa powder. Finishes with a wallop of sweet red berries and lingering, seductive spiciness; as ridiculous a value as one can find these days. The yield for this wine was reportedly under two tons per acre.”
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Jacques-Frederic Mugnier
Nuits-Saint-Georges
Clos de la Marechale 2004
REG $89.99, NOW $52.98!
Burghound 89-91 “This is more elegant still and slightly finer with detailed, expressive and pure aromas of earth, black fruit and plum that dissolve into beautifully complex, refined and balanced flavors that also display ample finishing minerality and better overall phenolic ripeness. A really lovely effort that should age effortlessly”.
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Tito’s
Vodka
Was $31.99, Now $29.99
Tito’s Handmade Vodka is produced in Austin at Texas’ first and oldest legal distillery. It’s made in small batches in an old fashioned pot still by Tito Beveridge (actual name), a 45-year-old Geologist, and distilled six times.

Tito’s Handmade Vodka is designed to be savored by spirit connoisseurs. It is micro-distilled in an old-fashioned pot still, just like fine single malt scotches and high-end French cognacs. This time-honored method of distillation requires more skill and effort than modern column stills, but it’s well worth it.

Our handcrafted technique offers more control over the distillation process, resulting in a spectacularly clean product of incomparable excellence. Only the heart of the run, “the nectar” is taken, leaving behind residual higher and lower alcohols. The vodka is cleansed of phenols, esters, congenersand organic acids by filtering it through the finest activated carbon available.

Critics call Tito’s “a homegrown symphonic spirit to applaud!” and say “it can go head to head with any of the worlds’ greats and not break a sweat.”
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