Château Latour 2006 Grand Vin Pauillac, Bordeaux A blend of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon and the balance mostly Merlot, with a splash of Cabernet Franc. 97 – Decanter 96 – Jeb Dunnuck 96 – Wine Enthusiast 95 – Wine Spectator 95 – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate   The Grand Vin de Château Latour comes only from the old vines, with an average age of around sixty years. Taste – Graphite, lead pencil and minerality all balanced by terrific cassis and blackcurrant fruit. With medium to full-bodied richness, present, yet silky tannin, impeccable balance and a great finish. Drink now – 2038   ..read more

Forget flowers – get your mom the kind of rose she really wants this year – rosé!  There is nothing better than drinking rosé on a warm spring day. With beautiful hues, floral aromas, and delicious red fruit flavours, these wines are sure to make mom smile.  Stock varies by location. Please check with your local store to verify availability.  VID-A SPRING ROSÉ Spain Monastrell and Syrah.  Intense redcurrant aromas with hints of lilacs and violets. Savoury on the palate with layers of ripe fruit and a soft fresh finish. ⠀     SUMMER WATER ROSÉ Centra ..read more

The Screaming Eagle Story: World-renowned as one of the rarest, most prestigious and expensive wines. Screaming Eagle is legendary. Jean Phillips, a former real estate agent, bought the 57 acres vineyard in 1986.  She planted a mix of varieties, most of which was sold to various Napa wineries. With all white varieties but for 1-acre and approximately 80 vines of Cabernet Sauvignon, Philips sought the opinions of wine industry friends on the commercial potential of her estate. She then before hired Richard Peterson as a consultant.  Subsequently she met Peterson’s daughter, Heidi Pete ..read more

Château Latour 2006 Grand Vin Pauillac, Bordeaux A blend of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon and the balance mostly Merlot, with a splash of Cabernet Franc. 97 – Decanter 96 – Jeb Dunnuck 96 – Wine Enthusiast 95 – Wine Spectator 95 – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate   The Grand Vin de Château Latour comes only from the old vines, with an average age of around sixty years. Taste – Graphite, lead pencil and minerality all balanced by terrific cassis and blackcurrant fruit. With medium to full-bodied richness, present, yet silky tannin, impeccable balance and a great finish. Drink now – 2038   ..read more

Forget flowers – get your mom the kind of rose she really wants this year – rosé!  There is nothing better than drinking rosé on a warm spring day. With beautiful hues, floral aromas, and delicious red fruit flavours, these wines are sure to make mom smile.  Stock varies by location. Please check with your local store to verify availability.  VID-A SPRING ROSÉ Spain Monastrell and Syrah.  Intense redcurrant aromas with hints of lilacs and violets. Savoury on the palate with layers of ripe fruit and a soft fresh finish. ⠀     SUMMER WATER ROSÉ Centra ..read more

The Screaming Eagle Story: World-renowned as one of the rarest, most prestigious and expensive wines, Screaming Eagle is legendary. Jean Phillips, a former real estate agent, bought the 57 acres vineyard in 1986 which was planted to produce a mix of varieties, most of which Phillips sold to various Napa wineries. With all white varieties but for 1-acre, approximately 80 vines of Cabernet Sauvignon, Philips sought the opinions of wine industry friends on the commercial potential of her estate before hiring Richard Peterson as a consultant and subsequently met Peterson’s daughter, Heidi Peterson ..read more

It’s a wine-preservation system that uses smart technology to access the wine in the bottle while also keeping the oxygen from hitting it. Drink any wine, any time, without ever pulling the cork. Hosting a party and everyone wants to drink something different? With your Coravin, you can give everyone a taste of what they want without actually opening all of the bottles. How to use it The Coravin uses a tiny needle to puncture through the cork to access the wine without causing any cork damage. While pouring, Argon gas (an inert gas that is already used in the winemaking process) is r ..read more

The Château d’Yquem Story A Superior First Growth wine produced in the Sauternes appellation of France. Chateau d’Yquem is the world’s most famous sweet wine and the best according to many. A must-have addition to any wine cellar. Château d’Yquem has a very long life span: twenty, fifty, a hundred years, or more and develops a host of deliciously subtle aromas and flavours. It’s colour changes over the years from shimmering straw yellow to golden-brown with amber and caramel highlights, and then to mahogany. Certain connoisseurs consider it outrageous to drink a young Yquem and believe that op ..read more

New in our Collector’s Library, two wines from Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars. Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, notably known for being the California winery that won the Cabernet Sauvignon competition in the 1976 Judgment of Paris, was founded in 1970, and is considered a Napa Valley first-growth estate.   Stag’s Leap Wine Cellar is not to be confused with the nearby producer, Stags’ Leap Winery. The two came to legal blows in the 1980s over the Stag’s Leap title, but an agreement was reached over the careful placement of the apostrophe.   Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars – 2014 – CASK 23 Cabernet Sauvi ..read more

Sassicaia – A Super Tuscan widely accepted as one of the world`s greatest Cabernet Sauvignon wines. Sassicaia is consistently given high ratings and holds the rare privilege of being one of the only single estates that has been granted its own DOC. 85 % Cabernet Sauvignon 15 % Cabernet Franc, D.O.C. Bolgheri Sassicaia. The wines are aged for 24 months in French oak barriques and a few more months in the bottle before being released. 2011 – 95 points – Wine Spectator 2012 – 99 points – Wine Enthusiast 2013 – 98 points – Wine Enthusiast 2014 – 95 points – Wine Enthusiast   Pictured here: 2 ..read more