Shakespeare played at least a small part in your vows, either the public ones you made or the private, poetic ones you read to each other behind closed doors. In fair Verona, the Allegrini family has been making its mark on Italy's most prestigious winemaking region since the 16th century. La Poja, named for the perfect plateau of Allegrini's ancient 250-acre Valpolicella vineyards, is blended from 100% Corvina into an intense, seductive Super Tuscan with a romantic story: it's an ode to family patriarch Giovanni Allegrini, who developed and perfected innovations in the art of growing and producing wine and had a special fondness for Amarone. Pair it with truffled mac n' cheese or a braised red meat dish.
Honey badgers are your spirit animal. Forces to be reckoned with, you don't really care what other people think. Guado al Tasso — literally badger in Italian — is a powerful and elegant red wine made in a Medieval hamlet estate southwest of Florence owned by the legendary Antinori Family of winemakers, and could just be your wine patronus, as well. The microclimate right on the Tuscan coast creates the perfect setting on which to grow this flagship red wine — along with organic tomatoes, olives, spelt, and Cinta Senese pigs, all of which are also sold at the estate's shop along with its wines. This is baller, supple, farm-to-table stuff perfect for celebrating your individuality and character.
The perfect dinner guest gets along with everyone, and everyone wants to be friends with them on Facebook after. Beaux Freres is that red wine. This spicy, lush, silky Pinot Noir is why people say, "You can never go wrong with an Oregon Pinot." It's the product of a collaboration between renowned wine critic Robert Parker and his brother, sought after by collectors and highly rated by other critics, but all that hype aside it's just a brilliant, balanced red wine that will never let you down — more likely, it'll make you proud you were the one who introduced it around, even if the occasion is just Netflix & chill with boo.
Picture it now: you and boo, feet up by the fire at some swanky lodge, in matching plush robes and slippers, cheeks blushing and reminiscing stories of your 10 years of marriage while sharing this perfectly purple cab, possibly even apres ski. One of Robert Parker's favorite 2012 private reserves to buy and save for years to come, this bottle really shows off why Beringer has had such a long and successful American winemaking legacy — and why they should earn a place in your cellar.
Every month you will receive six wines hand-selected from the world's premier vineyards. Enjoy selections of both the Red and White Wines. Detailed notes and food pairing suggestions are included so you can savor each wine to the utmost. Clubs ship on or around the 9th of each month.
Every month you will receive six wines hand-selected from the world's premier vineyards. Enjoy selections of both the Red and White Wine Clubs. Detailed notes and food pairing suggestions are included so you can savor each wine to the utmost. Clubs ship on or around the 9th of each month.
Weaving together the best grapes from some of the most storied winemaking regions in Napa Valley — Rutherford, St Helena, Calistoga — the Tapestry Reserve from Beaulieu is a virtual Northern California wine tasting vacation blended into a single bottle. It's a deep, layered, graceful red blend with classic Napa Cabernet at its core, a perfect homage to celebrating your first 5 years of blended family together — maybe a little Carole King on Spotify just to be meta.
One of the jewels in the crown of your Italian wine collection, this standard-bearing Brunello will make real wine-knowledge royalty out of even the most Mia Thermopolous-like drinkers. At the CastelGiocondo estate high above Montalcino, a garnet-red wine is born of adverse conditions: full-bodied, refined and pretty, an instant classic. Critics love its silky, fruity, minerally refinement and you will, too — especially if you can hold onto it until 2017, maybe to celebrate your first anniversary.
When you're feeling like royalty but your bank account is feeling more like a pauper, drink this big-bang-for-your-bucks Italian red made at a real life castle. Critics say it's one of few wines in the world that offer this level of quality for the money. Bianchi is one of the first Italian producers to take white grapes out of his Chianti, making this vintage a celebration of all that red fruit in what critic Antonio Galloni called "a regal expression of sangiovese." Stock up by the case when times are flush to enjoy when they're not so much — for richer or for poorer, right?
When you're drinking cab from Caymus, you're drinking a time capsule of the Napa Valley origins story: heirloom-quality, award-winning, nearly legendary wine from one of the three original winemaking families in the region. This is Cab-addicts wine, for people who love to learn the history of wine and its humble farmer-craftsmen, like the infamous Chuck Wagner. Wagner (re)started the winery with his parents when he was just 19, and is a Rutherford native who's been said to truly have "that Rutherford Dust in his veins." The Caymus Napa Valley Cabernet is one of the most consistent and award-winning Rutherford cabs on the market, every year since 1972. Drink it young or or let it age, either way it's going to deliver big time!
When you're drinking cab from Caymus, you're drinking a time capsule of the Napa Valley origins story: heirloom-quality, award-winning, nearly legendary wine from one of the three original winemaking families in the region. This is Cab-addicts wine, for people who love to learn the history of wine and its humble farmer-craftsmen, like the infamous Chuck Wagner. Wagner (re)started the winery with his parents when he was just 19, and is a Rutherford native who's been said to truly have "that Rutherford Dust in his veins." Caymus Special Selection is the Wagner family's flagship wine, made only in the best years from the very best barrels of the vintage.
Every wine lover needs bottles in their collection that are versatile and a pleasure to drink while you wait for your prime bottles to age to perfection. Chappellet's affordable red blend from the Pritchard Hill region of Napa Valley, legendary for Cab-based blends, is that bottle. A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Malbec, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc, it's a smooth, supple, textured red with a complex array of aromas and flavors that go perfectly with everything from Asian takeout to burgers and fries, classic roasted dishes and pasta to BBQ and stews.
The annual viewing of The Quiet Man is in full swing at your house, a roaring fire in the fireplace and your best Irish woolens providing cozy warmth. Proud, passionate Fenian wine lovers, take note: this textbook Bordeaux from a legendary, prestigious, award-winning Medoc region chateau was originally started by a wine merchant from Galway back in 1749. Let this savory, full-bodied French red open up and breathe while you celebrate the joys of the holidays (or just hide out from the Polar Vortex) with a kitchen full of earthy, smoky, mushroomed vegetable dishes, stinky cheeses, and maybe a roasted lamb.
Elon Musk is one of your heroes, seamlessly blending luxury and high-end design with enlightened consciousness about environmental stewardship. Pontet-Canet is your winery. Across the street from the legendary house of Mouton Rothschild in the most famous of all the Bordeaux wine growing appellations, Chateau Pontet-Canet is also Bordeaux's leading biodynamic vineyard. Pair with anything earthy, smoky, mushroomed or truffled — rare, grilled meats, roasted or braised game, soft and hard cheeses.
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