Posts Tagged ‘White’

Tasting Recap 8/27/09: Languedoc, Burgundy, & the Southwest

Share
Thursday’s staff tasting featured a wide range of regions and styles. Because of this diversity we didn’t hold to our usual north to south tasting order but instead jumped around. We started in the Languedoc with some new arrivals from Saint Martin de la Garrigue.
Here’s a brief history of Saint Martin as told by Kermit [...]

Low Alcohol Wine Selection

Share
Long ago I learned to appreciate subtlety and finesse in a wine.  Maybe that’s why I work here, right?  But I use those descriptors often when I speak about wine – especially a wine that draws you in seductively instead of punching you in the nose, and on the palate leaves a perfumed aftertaste instead [...]

New Arrivals!

Share
In our recent email blast we featured some new arrivals that we are excited about. Here are a few more, all hailing from the 2008 vintage.
2008 Côtes du Rhône “La Sagesse” • Domaine Gramenon
If the recent arrivals from Domaine Gramenon are any indication, then 2008 has produced excellent wines in the Rhône. Gramenon likes to [...]

A question from Kermit Lynch to you…

Share
As regular readers of our newsletter know, Kermit spends a good chunk of his year in France and Italy. He works, he relaxes, he visits friends. One of his absolute favorite places to mix his work and pleasure is on the island of Corsica. He just returned to his Provençal home after spending a week [...]

Blended By Kermit Lynch

Share
As mentioned in our June Newsletter, with our 2008 Côtes du Rhône Blanc “Sunflower Cuvée” we’ve added a new bottling to our line of wines labeled “Blended by Kermit Lynch.” These “house” wines are great values and hard to keep on the floor, making it rare that we have all five Kermit Lynch blends available [...]