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Shanken News Daily: Schramsberg Stakes Out Ground at Domestic Sparkling Wine’s High End
Shanken News Daily: Schramsberg Stakes Out Ground at Domestic Sparkling Wine’s High End
Schramsberg Stakes Out Ground At Domestic Sparkling Wine’s High End July 19, 2019 In value terms, the upscale sparkling wine market in the U.S. continues to be led by Champagne brands like Veuve Clicquot and Moët & Chandon, but higher-end domestic bubblies have also been gaining ground, with Napa Valley-based Schramsberg at the forefront. Schramsberg’s depletions are nearing the 90,000-case mark, according to second-generation family member Hugh Davies. While the brand’s flagship Blanc de Blancs ($35) leads the portfolio in volume terms, with depletions of approximately 35,000 cases last year, Davies sees room for experimentation and growth at the higher...
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Forbes: Wines of the Week: Two Great Bottles of Brunello di Montalcino Riserva (Biondi-Santi)
Forbes: Wines of the Week: Two Great Bottles of Brunello di Montalcino Riserva (Biondi-Santi)
Brian Freedman July 15, 2019 Any discussion about Brunello di Montalcino by definition begins with Biondi-Santi, since they were the first producer to craft the wine under that name: In one of their cellars hangs a copy of a document from the agricultural exposition of 1869 on which the supposed first reference in writing on an official form appears the name “brunello” (it’s in lower-case on the document, I was told, because the powers-that-be didn’t recognize the word as anything but a marketing ploy by the producer). How things have changed in the 150 years since then! Fast-forward to today,...
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Cool Hunting: The Pink Experience From Provence’s Chateau Gassier
Cool Hunting: The Pink Experience From Provence’s Chateau Gassier
"Radiating from the base of France‘s Mount Sainte-Victoire, the estate vineyards and winery for Château Gassier produces some of the most exemplary rosé wines in the Provence region—from fresh and fun to round and complementary. In fact, their unique microclimate and position within the Arc Valley affords all of these wines the specific designation as a Côtes de Provence Sainte-Victoire—a sub-appellation recognized since ’05. And here, Château Gassier welcomes guests into their home, granting lovers of rosé a detailed, dynamic and quite pink peek into their produce and products. Across their 40-hectare estate vineyard—planted with Grenache, Cinsault, Rolle and Syrah—a terroir of clay and limestone gives way...
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Forbes: The Best Wine for Celebrating Your 21st Birthday, Or Any Milestone – featuring Biondi-Santi
Forbes: The Best Wine for Celebrating Your 21st Birthday, Or Any Milestone – featuring Biondi-Santi
"When my firstborn celebrated his 21st birthday last year we honored the milestone with a gift I purchased over a decade ago—-a 21 year-old wine. Let’s be clear, not all wines are meant to be consumed 21 years past their vintage date, but some are made precisely for that reason. Finding a wine that improves with 20 or more years of age is not impossible, but why not purchase one that defined winemaking history as well? Biondi-Santi Riserva Brunello di Montalcino is that wine. Montalcino is a walled medieval village that sits high on a hilltop overlooking Tuscany and Brunello di...
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North Bay Voyager: The 24 Best Rosés to Drink This Summer (and Beyond) – featuring Schramsberg
North Bay Voyager: The 24 Best Rosés to Drink This Summer (and Beyond) – featuring Schramsberg
SCHRAMSBERG 2016 BRUT ROSÉ - $47 Napa Valley's Schramsberg remains one of the best sparkling wine producers in the world. Their wines are hard to resist: perfectly balanced and traditionally made. Their 2016 Brut Rosé is no exception. A blend of pinot noir and chardonnay, this salmon colored sparkler is juicy, acidic and is a perfect match for an iconic sparkling pairing: fried chicken.
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Jancis Robinson: California is Fizzing Again featuring Schramsberg
Jancis Robinson: California is Fizzing Again featuring Schramsberg
"There'a a renaissance of sparkling wine production in the golden state." "But then in 1965, Jack and Jamie Davies purchased the historic Schramsberg property on Napa's Diamond Mountain with the goal of producing world-class California sparkling wine, producing the country's first vintage-dated blanc de noirs in 1967. Schramsberg's success with high-quality sparkling wine was undeniable, and no doubt helped to fuel the expansion of the category that would take place over the next 20 years." "'I think they've really made it more practical for some of these new producers to exist and to do the work', says Schramsberg CEO Hugh...
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Cool Hunting: Chateau Clarke’s “Le Merle Blanc” Bordeaux White Wine
Cool Hunting: Chateau Clarke’s “Le Merle Blanc” Bordeaux White Wine
To read David Graver's full article at Cool Hunting, click here A DELICACY FROM ONE OF A HANDFUL OF ESTATES TO PRODUCE WHITE VARIETALS IN THE MÉDOC The word Bordeaux tickles sense memory, conjuring the deep colors and lavish aromas of medium- and full-bodied red wines with tannic gravitas. Château Clarke, which sits on roughly 150 hectares in Bordeaux’s Listrac-Médoc appellation, produces such wines—and yet their white, Le Merle Blanc, represents something of greater rarity. Few estates in the Médoc nurture white wine varietals; even fewer offer a white wine as elegant as the one here. La Merle Blanc straddles the interests of lovers...
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A Tuscan Wine Dynasty Forges A New Path
A Tuscan Wine Dynasty Forges A New Path
Click here to read the entire article at Forbes The Biondi Santi name is inextricably linked with Brunello di Montalcino; however, future generations of this storied family may be more closely linked with Castello di Montepò in DOCG Morellino di Scansano than with their ancestral Tenute Greppo estate. The Santi history of making wine in Montalcino stretches back to the middle ages, when the family was known for their Moscadello di Montalcino, a white wine made from Muscatel grapes. In 1865 Clemente Santi was the first in the region to make high quality wine from 100 percent Sangiovese grapes,...
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Opening a Bottle: Elvio Cogno’s Own-Rooted Barbera d’Alba
Opening a Bottle: Elvio Cogno’s Own-Rooted Barbera d’Alba
Click here to read Kevin Day's outstanding article in its entirety on Opening a Bottle "...Among the winemakers I interviewed was Valter Fissore of the esteemed Barolo winery, Azienda Agricola Cogno, or Elvio Cogno as it is known less formally. Fissore produces a Barbera d’Alba that is most unusual for Piedmont. That’s because the old vines are own-rooted, meaning they were never grafted onto American rootstock." "Tasting notes: Visually speaking, there appears to be a little more opacity to this Barbera than others, but not enough for the casual drinker to care. The aromas are impactful and tightly wound, registering...
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Vinepair: Why do Italians Insist on Making Wines in the Most Difficult Places – Featuring Venissa
Vinepair: Why do Italians Insist on Making Wines in the Most Difficult Places – Featuring Venissa
To some extent, growing grapes and making wine anywhere is an act of faith: that nature will smile upon you, and so too will the wine-drinking public, which each year has a wider and wider variety of wines to choose from. Perhaps no wine required a bigger leap of faith than the wine of Venissa: vines planted by the Bisol family on the tiny island of Mazzorbo in the Venetian lagoon based on a combination of cultural memory, passion, and a willingness to ignore almost everyone’s advice, and we mean everyone’s. On this week’s VinePair podcast, Adam interviews Matteo Bisol...
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