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Save 15%! Jay's Picks
570-2370: Botromagno Gravina Bianco
With its stark, rocky landscape, beautiful coastline, and endless sea of olive groves, Puglia (the heel of Italy’s boot) is associated with many delicious southern Italian food products, but not necessarily white wine. One winery in the village of Gravina is slowly attempting to change the perception that this region only makes rustic reds for spicy pastas. This wine is soft, round, and at the same time quite lively, with ripe fruit notes and faint floral aromas. Serve Botromagno before dinner, or with rare tuna and green olives.
Retail $12.99
570-2372: Collovray & Terrier St. Veran
This Burgundian duo make a perennial favorite of mine, a wine that can recalibrate your expectations of the Chardonnay grape and also explode the myth that quality white Burgundy has to be expensive. The vineyards Christian Collovray and Jean-Luc Terrier use are exceptional, within view of the Macon region’s massive rocks of Vergisson and Solutre. The wine tastes of crisp green apple and ripe pear, and the texture of it makes me want a slice of pork loin and sweet potatoes to eat along with this bright, full-bodied white.
Retail $16.99
570-2374: Fattori & Graney Soave
Forget the bad old days of Soave. This is prime white wine growing country, a region whose name was sadly sullied in the last century by cheap industrial white that bears no similarity in method of production or flavor profile to the best Soave available today. I come back to Fattori’s vibrant white time and again as a reference point for how well-made Soave can be at once clean, aromatically complex, and wonderfully deep. Serve this with miso-glazed baked cod, or even tender pork with rosemary and sea salt.
Retail $10.99
570-2376: Guy Larmandier Grand Cru Champagne
If only it came in liter bottles! I’m left dreaming of another glass after every bottle of Larmandier Champagne. This is my house Champagne, the bubbly against which all others are judged when making personal wine-buying decisions. Guy Larmandier is a grower-producer, and a small one at that, so there isn’t much of this delicious wine to go around. Try this incredibly precise, for all intents and purposes perfect dry Champagne with sashimi, or other dishes that require a pure and refreshing companion.
Retail $44.99
570-2377: Le Coq Rouge
So you go to Provence, Languedoc, or whatever corner of France you most enjoy, you eat great rustic food, you carouse with loved ones into the wee hours, and the next week back in the confines of your local wine store you wonder where to find the unpretentious, gulpable, and reliable reds you so enjoyed on vacation. And here it is. Wine without fuss, wine that is comfortable playing a supporting role in your next round of festivities, wine that doesn’t demand hair-splitting over-examination. Fun red from the south of France, perfect for whatever good food you are serving.
Retail $9.99
570-2378: Raylen Category 5 Red
Steve Shepherd at Raylen is making some of the most consistently exciting wines in our home state. He’s one of the few people with decades of wine making experience in NC, and it shows in this hearty Bordeaux-influenced red. A touch of Syrah breaks Category Five out of the strict Bordeaux mold, and adds pleasant spice character that makes me want to serve this red with lamb, or western-style pork bbq.
Retail $19.99
570-2380: Rockhouse Cabernet Sauvignon
There are many good reds being made in North Carolina today, but few have the concentration of flavor and pleasantly round texture of Rockhouse. From Tryon, NC. This is steak wine, wine that will win converts among drinkers new to the idea of quality dry wine from our state.
Retail $18.99
570-2383: Vecchia Torre Primitivo
This is a great vintage for one of my perennial favorites from Puglia. The current release has a pleasant dried fruit aspect to it, part of its dusty old-world charm. Deep, dark, and ripe, but also the antithesis of the cloying jammy fruit-bomb style of red wine so commonly encountered at the low-end of the wine price spectrum. This red has poise, character, a distinct sense of place. I’d serve it with braised meat courses, or spicy tomato-based sauces over pasta.
Retail $9.50
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