{"id":3227,"date":"2019-05-29T00:35:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T00:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2019-06-02T18:53:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T18:53:18","slug":"briefs-5-28-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/2019\/05\/29\/briefs-5-28-19\/","title":{"rendered":"BRIEFS 5-28-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

~~<\/strong>They grow Sauvignon Blanc in a lot of places world-wide, from the Loire to Australia, South Africa and the Americas.  But some of the most intriguing come from the high country of northeast Italy.  There\u2019s a distinctive take on the varietal with aromas of tomato leaf, grapefruit, wild herbs, and yellow stone fruits.  The flavors are hauntingly insistent but also delicate.  When it\u2019s on, it is a lovely and unique take on Sauvignon Blanc, pretty unlike anything else from this varietal.  Some of our favorites are Vie de Romans, Venica, and Venica, and Terlano\u2019s Quarz.   In that vein of elite level, captivating, almost haunting \u2018high country\u2019 Sauvignons, add the Tiare Sauvignon Collio 2017<\/a>, a beautiful example of exactly what we are talking about and a \u201ctre bicchierre\u201d<\/strong><\/em> selection from Gambero Rosso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~~<\/strong>Not all Pinot Grigios are created equal, and some of them are even pink. \u00a0As many of you know, Pinot Grigio grapes actually have a pinkish tint.\u00a0 Through a process called\u00a0ramato<\/em>, the Pinot Grigio grapes spend some extra time in contact with the skins which changes the phenolic feel of the wine in the mouth, adds a little punch to the mid palate and, depending on the length of the contact, imparts a pinkish hue to the wine itself.\u00a0 There aren\u2019t a lot of folks that do it this way and it takes a certain level of talent to pull it off.\u00a0 But done right, it is a delicious, distinctive take on the varietal that most folks haven\u2019t tried.\u00a0\u00a0 Definitely for adults, the\u00a0Specogna Pinot Grigio Ramato Friuli Colli Orientali 2017 ($22.99)<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is a marvelous example of this style.\u00a0 Who knew Pinot Grigio could be this interesting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~~<\/strong>Vintages play an important part in most of what we do.\u00a0 A new vintage of something is news in itself.\u00a0 Not so for sparkling and fortified wines that are non-vintage.\u00a0 So unless there is some sort of seasonal or event-related relevance,\u00a0things like the\u00a0Mikulski Cremant de Bourgogne<\/a><\/strong>, which we highlighted this year, the\u00a0Perez Barquero Gran Barquero Amontillado Sherry<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>that we highlighted last year, and the\u00a0Lustau Palo Cortado Peninsula<\/a>\u00a0(t<\/strong>hat we highlighted a long time ago)\u00a0<\/strong>or the\u00a0Drusian Prosecco Superiore Valdobbiadene Extra Dry<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>a house favorite that we have been selling for more than a decade,\u00a0will be forgotten.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to use things like the \u2018Briefs\u2019 section to mention products like these again because the whole way wine is being marketed has changed.\u00a0 In the past, there were conversations where walk-in consumers would ask about products and categories from people on the floor.\u00a0 Buying online with a mouse click is a completely different dynamic.\u00a0 Items like these were exciting enough for us to buy them initially, and still are.\u00a0 No reason not to remind people about them once in a while and possibly introduce a few new folks that missed it the first time in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

~~They grow Sauvignon Blanc in a lot of places world-wide, from the Loire to Australia, South Africa and the Americas.  But some of the most intriguing come from the high country of northeast Italy.  There\u2019s a distinctive take on the varietal with aromas of tomato leaf, grapefruit, wild herbs, and yellow stone fruits.  The flavors … Continue reading “BRIEFS 5-28-19”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3254,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions\/3254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}