Friday, January 10th, 2020 & Saturday, January 11th, 2020 1. Erwin Sabathi “Leutschacher” Sauvignon Blanc—Austria Cooper’s Price $27.99 The history of Erwin Sabathi began in 1650, when George Sabati founded the small winery. In 1938, the winery was sold to Johann Sabati and his wife, Lyudmila. In the mid-1950s, Johann Read more…
1. Domain Begude Terroir 11300 Chardonnay Cooper’s Price $14.99 This wine is from Haute Vallée de l’Aude in Languedoc-Roussillon, France at the foot of the Pyrenees and made from 100% Chardonnay grapes. The wine is organic. It has the freshness of citrus in combination with flavors of apple and pear. The Read more…
1. Scar of the Sea Santa Maria Valley “Old Vine” Chardonnay Regular $31.99 – Cooper’s Price $27.99 Co-owners Mikey Guigni and Michael Brughelli first met in college at Cal Poly before both pursued careers in winemaking. This Santa Maria Valley Chardonnay is a blend of old vine fruit from Riverbench and Read more…
1. Walter Scott – La Combe Verte Chardonnay Cooper’s Price $28.99 Ken Pahlo’s (the winemaker) approach to Chardonnay pays attention to texture and structure, translating site and vintage. The La Combe Verte is fermented with 100% ambient yeast and full malolactic conversion in large barrels with very little bâtonnage. The Read more…
1. Cleebourg Alsace Gewurztraminer Prestige Cooper’s Price $15.99 Located 60 kilometers north of Strasbourg, Cave de Cléebourg’s vineyards cover almost 200 hectares of the Northern Vosges Mountains in the Alsace region of France. Wine production was introduced into the Cléebourg area by Dominican monks from neighboring Wissembourg as early as the Read more…
Orbis Moderandi, Sauvignon Blanc Pétillant Naturel Regular $20.99 Cooper’s Price $17.99 100% Sauvignon Blanc from a stunning single vineyard within Marlborough that is bottled during fermentation (petillant naturel or “pet-nat”). How this stunning wine was made – Carefully harvested from the stunning sustainably farmed vineyards at Hunter’s. The fruit was Read more…
Jolie Laide Trousseau Gris – Cooper’s Price $29.99 – Jolie-Laide is a one-man operation based in a Sebastopol, CA winery. Winemaker Scott Schultz makes only 500 cases of wine a year under his own label. The name Jolie-Laide translates loosely to “Pretty-Ugly”, a French term of endearment to describe something Read more…
CVNE Monopole Clasíco Rioja Blanco – Cooper’s Price $27.99 – CVNE is one of the most important wine producers of Spain, on account of its illustrious history, and its omnipresence in the contemporary Spanish wine scene. Founded by the Real de Asua brothers in 1879, it remains family-owned and family-run, with Read more…
Domaine Raoul Gautherin Chablis, Burgundy 2018 Regular Price $28.99 – Cooper’s Price $24.99 Wine Education: Chablis is an historic wine-producing town and region in northern central France. It produces light, dry, white wines famed for their flinty minerality and crisp acidity. AOC Chablis wines are produced exclusively from the Chardonnay Read more…
Tasting Notes Sept 20th, 2019 Lioco 2014 “Demuth” Anderson Valley Chardonnay Regular $57.99 Cooper’s Price $36.99 At 1700 feet above the town of Boonville, this remote windswept ridge seems an improbable place to find Chardonnay. 95% of the vines here are dedicated Pinot Noir. Chris Demuth had the foresight to Read more…