Sixpack #158
This inflation-fighting selection of 2 whites and 4 reds comes in our reusable, partitioned, eco-friendly six bottle bag that is still only $49.99. Use your bag to receive a club discount on future purchases of six bottles or more of any of our in-stock wines. Our sixpack club has no rules and no obligations, just a good value in specially selected wine.
Gerard Bertrand “Trouble” White Blend, Languedoc France
This cloudy, organic, vegan wine challenges norms and breaks with convention. It has an intriguing appearance, making you want to explore this new mystery and indulge in new pleasures. It is even more astonishing on the palate: its texture and feel, combined with the intensity of its aromas, create a whole new tasting experience. The wine has a naturally cloudy appearance. On the palate it offers a meaty, velvety texture, coating the palate in succulent softness. Exotic fruit aromas explode on the palate, with juicy mango, pineapple and fresh lychee notes. The wine has impressive aromatic intensity, enhanced by delicate floral touches. The tart, lingering finish ensures a subtle balance. Serve chilled with seafood linguine or poke bowl.
Mt. Beautiful Chardonnay, New Zealand
Mt. Beautiful Winery lies in the heart of North Canterbury on the South Island of New Zealand. Protected and enriched by mountains and rivers, it is lauded by many critics as New Zealand’s most underestimated wine region. It is an aromatic Chardonnay, displaying white peach and toasted brioche with a creamy texture that makes it easy to drink. It is a medium bodied wine with ripe nectarine-like fruit and underlying notes of roasted almonds and cinnamon. The wine boasts a clean and crisp finish, lovely persistent minerality and savory toastiness.
Benvolio Rosso, Triveneto Italy
Benvolio is one of Italy’s fastest growing wineries, and with the value they provide their customers, it’s not a surprise why they’re so successful. This Trevenezie Rosso is a vibrant blend of 70% Refosco and 30% Merlot – fruit-forward, light-bodied, smooth texture, long finish. Aromas of violet, cherry, and raspberry with earthy undertones. The palate shows bright red fruit with a touch of spice. It’s the kind of wine that disappears fast because it just works so well with everything: we’re talking anything from fall salads to pizza, pasta with red sauce or anything grilled.
Cacique Maravilla “Pipeno Pais” Red Blend, Chile
Pipeno is an endearing term for a local, unpretentious ‘peasant’ wine, typically made from Pais, an obscure, under-appreciated, forgotten grape of vague Spanish descent. It’s light-bodied, fresh and funky with bright red berry flavors, crisp acidity and lower in tannin with flinty, earthy notes. Not bad for a liter of ‘swill’! The volcanic vineyards of Cacique Maravilla have been dry farmed organically for 7 generations. Some of their vines are over 250 years old! Handpicked, this is dry farmed 100% Pais is destemmed manually using the zaranda (traditional bamboo screen) and fermented in open top fermenters made from raulí, a native pink oak of Chile. The free run juice is then transferred into pipas (or barrels) made of raulí for several months after harvest on the fine lees. Super light red that almost drinks like a crunchier Gamay.
Gil Family “La Atalaya Del Camino” Red, Almanasa Spain
Characterized by long rolling hills and tempered by a drastic continental climate, the region of Almansa is an excellent environment for producing wines of great extraction. This is a blend of 85% Garnacha Tintorera and 15% Monastrell from dry-farmed, head-pruned vines that are planted on limestone soils and average 45 years of age. It fermented in open-top stainless steel vats with neutral yeasts and matured in French oak barrels for one year. Deep purple red hues are good indication of the depth of flavor to follow. Essences of plums and black cherries accented by hints of white pepper, complemented by long well-balanced finish, highlight this wonderful wine.
Fresh Vine Cabernet Sauvignon, California
Fresh Vine Wine is a premium wine label by Nina Dobrev and Julianne Hough. Inspired by their active lifestyles and focus on holistic health, they wanted to create a wine that reflects who they are. Their claim is that their wine uses top-quality fruit to craft wines that are low-sugar, low-carb, low-calorie, and great tasting. Dark ruby in color with a ripe, expressive nose full of blackberry pie, dark cherry, spice box and a hint of mint. Secondary notes ripe plum and vanilla. Medium-bodied with concentrated flavors of boysenberry, blackberry, and baker’s chocolate. Finishes long with supple tannins and flavor of plum.