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| If you’re going to have Robert Parker or Stephen Tanzer over for dinner, selecting a wine they’ve rated highly will be a nice choice. However, when you’re buying wines for yourself, we’d love to see you find wines that match up your unique palate and pocketbook. We have a large staff of friendly and knowledgeable wine professionals that taste hundreds of wines each week. They can put you in touch with bottles that you are likely to love, often at a much lower cost than the highly-rated gems that often see a run-up in price and frequent availability issues. Like any great group of opinionated professionals, our staff has varied tastes themselves. Often our customers will find a particular staff member with a style that corresponds to their own. That concept works extremely well in our retail stores, and this section is our effort to bring you the same online. Don’t get us wrong, we love the highly rated wines from the press and will continue to offer them, but we think you’re missing out if you’re not augmenting those selections with picks from our excellent staff. Here are their favorites. (Click on a name to see their other selections - or to drop them a line.) Cheers! |
Reviews
2019 Farella "Estate" Coombsville Napa Valley Malbec
By: Scott Beckerley | Review Date: 8/28/2025 | Send Email
By: Scott Beckerley | Review Date: 8/28/2025 | Send Email
If you associate Malbec with big "fruit bomb" style wines, think again. This Malbec from Farella Estate has more in common with a fine Cahors. Concentrated and dark, with black fruits, herbs, rustic earth and a nice top palate of clean tannin. Long finish of blackberries and dried herbs. Nicely complex and very drinkable. As a bonus, it should cellar very well for another 5 plus years.
Price:
$29.95
Wild Turkey 8 Year Old 101 Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/28/2025 | Send Email
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/28/2025 | Send Email
You know, can we have a little bit more respect for Wild Turkey? I've seen some of the bourbon bros roll their eyes a little bit when it's suggested, I get that you feel like you've had it before, that it's not as exciting as the quadruple cask finish cask strength bottling you managed to get from a buddy for just twice MSRP, but please let's take a closer look at this. This is 8 years old and comes it at just $5/year, which is pretty phenomenal when you look at the state of other age statement whiskies and the price direction they're going. The nose is super inviting, a little bit of brown sugar, peppery spice, something a little creamy, and then just a little hit of zest and dill. The palate is rich and super pretty, lil custard, a fair rich bit of barrel spice, more pepper, and then toast on the lingering finish. This is just delicious and impeccably done, a bounty of bourbon for your buck.
Price:
$39.99
2022 Léoville-Poyferré, St-Julien
By: Ryan Moses | Review Date: 8/28/2025 | Send Email
By: Ryan Moses | Review Date: 8/28/2025 | Send Email
An absolute stunner from Léoville-Poyferré, it’s no surprise this is once again a 100-point wine in 2022 and one of the champions of an extraordinary vintage. What they do so well here is craft a genuine, terroir-driven St-Julien with polish and finesse—concentrated enough to promise decades of aging, yet with an accessible profile that makes it endlessly delicious throughout its life.
The 2022 vintage perfectly complements their style: rich but never overblown, decadent yet fresh. Aromatically, a mélange of florals and black fruits leads the way, but it’s the palate that makes it undeniable—waves of cassis, blackberry, and plum carry remarkable weightless density, lifted by vibrant acidity and finishing long, with fruit, minerality, and ultra-fine tannins in seamless balance.
Whether compared to the famed 2009 and 2010 or to peers at the very top of the Left Bank, 2022 Léoville-Poyferré also delivers tremendous value as a long-term collectible. Congratulations to the Cuvelier family on another signature success—continuing a remarkable run of excellence over the past few decades.
Laurent-Perrier "Héritage" Brut Champagne
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/28/2025 | Send Email
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/28/2025 | Send Email
This release from Laurent-Perrier is absolutely stunning in every way I want it to be stunning. The nose is incredibly pretty but also very deep, with a breadth that is just really impressive. There are touches of jasmine, orange-blossom honey, lemon curd, and dried pineapple all accompanied by a combination of ripe green pear and crisp green apple and a really soft and pillowy brioche. This is the kind of wine that you just pause and soak in the aroma for a few minutes before even taking the first sip, the whole bouquet is just that enchanting. The palate is a touch robust, with a kaleidoscopic depth that pulls you down and almost tries to drown you, there's just so much going on. There's fresh and candied citrus, more crisp apple, and a saline sort of nuttiness like in a Manzanilla sherry. This is just absolutely divine and I want to do an exploratory sort of dinner where it's just a ton of different appetizers and finger foods while you drink a couple bottles of this. Bite after bite each compared with the last pairing, sipping in-between and over the food to try it every which way, chatting with each other about your favorite little mixes. That's the kind of experience this Champagne merits, and you'll be doing yourself the dirtiest of disservices if you don't at least give one a try, maybe two to be safe.
2009 K&L Discovery Series Bordeaux, St-Emilion
By: Keith Mabry | Review Date: 8/27/2025 | Send Email
By: Keith Mabry | Review Date: 8/27/2025 | Send Email
Prime evolution on this wine showing pretty notes of mulled blackberries, cherry compote and milk chocolate. A touch of fresh tilled earth and a hint of truffle are forming in the back lending savory notes to round out the wine. This is showing great balance and is one of the best buys in the category for drink now status. You cannot beat this price for the level of character this wine offers.
Price:
$14.99
2019 K&L Discovery Series Bordeaux, Pomerol
By: Keith Mabry | Review Date: 8/27/2025 | Send Email
By: Keith Mabry | Review Date: 8/27/2025 | Send Email
Classic notes of black cherry and chocolate spotlight the Merlot side and currants and sage highlight the depth Cabernet Franc can lend to the picture. Great texture with supple tannins. Terrific youthful drinking Pomerol that should evolve beautifully for another half dozen years or more.
Price:
$29.99
Laurent-Perrier "Héritage" Brut Champagne
By: Gary Westby | Review Date: 8/27/2025 | Send Email
By: Gary Westby | Review Date: 8/27/2025 | Send Email
This silky, complex, yet super easy to drink champagne is like a baby Grande Siècle. I love the Chassagne-Montrachet like nuttiness, and how well contrasted it is with the fresh citric component of this multi-faceted champagne. It took considerable patience to make, as the oldest part of this wine is now 11 years old and the youngest 6! If you love the tiny streamers and hidden complexity of tete de cuvée bottlings, this is a must try, especially given the value!
2019 K&L Discovery Series Bordeaux, Pomerol
By: Craig Morris | Review Date: 8/27/2025 | Send Email
By: Craig Morris | Review Date: 8/27/2025 | Send Email
The next entry in our Discovery Series is this 2019 Pomerol. Now, I do not know who made it, but the thing is Pomerol is a small area, and no matter where this comes from it is in great company. Given that production levels in Pomerol are limited across the board, the fact that we were able to secure any juice is impressive, let alone that we're selling for at this price. Pomerol is on the Right Bank of Bordeaux, and home to some of the finest Merlot in the world, so the expectations here are very high. This wine is rich and full of luscious red fruit, yet still an elegant wine. There's earthiness and minerality, cocoa, violets, and mushroom. It is complex and with some tannins on the back-end, so definitely one with aging potential if you are so inclined. This is just a great introduction to Pomerol and at a price you never see for wines from there. And no matter how nicely I ask, they just won't tell me who the actual producer is, so your guess is as good as mine.
Price:
$29.99
Paladar Estate Grown K&L Exclusive Cask Strength Single Barrel #A22 Añejo Tequila (750ml)
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/27/2025 | Send Email
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/27/2025 | Send Email
This Tequila was cut before being barreled, so the water that would have been added anyhow was put in and aged with the spirit instead of being added just before bottling, this is a fairly unique process in part due to the fact that it requires more barrels and more space to hold the same amount of overall proof, and ultimately most businesses are into being more economical especially with things as expensive as barrels. The result here, whatever the process, is absolutely stunning and I have found myself in a situation where I think I'm going to end up buying my dad, Dave, two bottles of Tequila for his birthday this year. I'm sure he won't be upset by that. The nose feels a little round, with really pretty coconut and tropical fruit showing through, accompanied by a little spiced vanilla and some cooked agave. The palate is really really tasty, a good amount of sweet agave, some dried pineapple, kind of a spiced rice pudding kind of flavor and a touch of minerality on the finish. This is really tasty, kind of makes me regret I never picked up one of their regular bottlings before, but I definitely certify this also as the kind of Tequila you buy your Dad for his birthday.
Price:
$84.99
Engine Italian Gin (750ml)
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/26/2025 | Send Email
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/26/2025 | Send Email
You said you're looking for high quality Italian gin... in an old timey oil can? Sure we can do that. Let me introduce you to Engine Italian Gin, the only gin we currently carry that's in an old timey oil can. It's got these incredibly layers of citrus on the nose that are all being buoyed by this really lovely sage note and then at the very edges is the rose coming through powdery and pretty. This dances a bit of a line, because while there's a lot of citrus here, there's also a good amount of floral notes so it's a little bit of a switch hitter. This definitely feels like a more modern style of London Dry gin, where Juniper is less the star of the show and the secondary aromatics come out, but I'm here for it. The palate is very citrus forward, the sage and rose laying back a bit on the palate until the very end of the finish. This is delicious and I want to have this in a G&T with a slice of cucumber and a healthy squeeze of lime or maybe even lemon to go with all the Sicilian citrus already steeped into this bad boy.
Price:
$29.99
Isle of Harris Sugar Kelp Infused Gin (750ml)
By: Will Blakely | Review Date: 8/26/2025 | Send Email
By: Will Blakely | Review Date: 8/26/2025 | Send Email
A product so instantly appealing that it became an overnight sensation, Isle of Harris Gin exceeds expectations in every metric. The remote distillery quietly distills some of the finest spirit in the Scottish Isles, and while their whisky only recently came on the scene, their gin has been a longtime favorite of everyone lucky enough to taste it. Classic hallmarks of good quality gin like fresh citrus, juniper and roots are held aloft by the exquisite distillate. The mouthwatering texture and salinity amplify other flavors beautifully, resulting in the best version of whatever cocktail in which you use this. Of course, it fares well in a martini, or with soda or tonic and a twist of your favorite citrus, but rarely have I so enjoyed sipping gin neat or with a slight chill. And with gorgeous packaging to boot, Harris Gin should be on everyone's home bar. Considering this originally cost $60, you can't afford not to buy it.
Price:
$44.99
2014 Farella "Estate" Coombsville Merlot (Winery Direct Library Release)
By: Scott Beckerley | Review Date: 8/26/2025 | Send Email
By: Scott Beckerley | Review Date: 8/26/2025 | Send Email
If you think of Merlot as being either a fruit bomb or green bell pepper bomb, look elsewhere. Farella Estate makes some of the best Merlot and Melor blends outside of Pomerol. The nose of full of bittersweet chocolate, earth, herbs, and dry red plums. On the palate, dark red fruits with dried herbs, cedar wood and savory spice. This is from an era before the whole "fruit bomb" style took over and Combsville is the perfect area for Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot!
2019 Phélan Ségur, St-Estèphe
By: Ryan Moses | Review Date: 8/26/2025 | Send Email
By: Ryan Moses | Review Date: 8/26/2025 | Send Email
This is easily one of my favorite wines on the shelf. The critical acclaim and remarkable pricing are just bonuses—the real story lies in the bottle and the people behind it.
Over the past decade, Phélan-Ségur has evolved from a charming, under-the-radar estate into one of the region’s great collectible values. While other vintages may eventually rival it, the 2019 stands as the benchmark for me at the estate—a simply brilliant wine crafted by Véronique Dausse.
Aromatically, it offers black fruit layered with floral notes and a touch of earthiness. On the palate, it is undeniable: a stunning, finely pixelated texture that reveals nuance after nuance. Black and red fruits intermingle with persistent minerality, refreshing acidity, and a concentration that promises a long, exciting evolution. Like all great wines, it effortlessly invites another sip.
This is a superb Saint-Estèphe and one of the great success stories of 2019. I’d confidently put it up against the big names of the Northern Médoc, and it would have no trouble holding its own.
As I’ve mentioned before, this vintage from Phélan-Ségur is one we’re always searching for, but it’s rarely found. We’ll continue to pursue bottles with perfect provenance, though pricing like this will be difficult to match in the future—if more even surfaces. Grab it while it’s available, and you’ll secure one of the region’s triumphant wines for years to come, at a price that makes opening bottle after bottle an easy decision.
2009 K&L Discovery Series Bordeaux, St-Emilion
By: Philip Roufail | Review Date: 8/24/2025 | Send Email
By: Philip Roufail | Review Date: 8/24/2025 | Send Email
K&L's Discovery series continues with two offerings from Bordeaux's St-Emilion, a Right Bank area known for its lush, rich full-bodied Merlot based blends. The 2009 is 90% Merlot, with 5% dollops of Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon to add depth and structure. 2009 was a "legendary" vintage in Bordeaux, producing consistently excellent wines throughout the region. "Big, bold, and lavish," the 2009s are just now hitting their prime drinking window. The 2009 Discovery Series St-Emilion has all the hallmarks of the vintage, and its ripe sweet fruit, spice, and tertiary notes have reached a delectable old school equilibrium - black licorice, dark plums, mocha, chocolate, earth, dark berries, and crushed rocks. If you want to discover St-Emilion wines, 2009 is a great place to start.
Price:
$14.99
2015 Bodegas Casa Juan "Señor de Lesmos" Reserva Rioja
By: Rachael Ryan | Review Date: 8/22/2025 | Send Email
By: Rachael Ryan | Review Date: 8/22/2025 | Send Email
A longstanding K&L customer favorite, the 2015 Bodegas Casa Juan Señor de Lesmos Reserva Rioja is back in stock and tasting better than ever! Composed of the same blend as the Crianza Rioja (85% Tempranillo; 15% Mazuelo), this Reserva Rioja is a barrel selection by owner/winemaker Angel Escudero. He identifies barrels of the Crianza that he feels show more complexity and concentration and are able to withstand extended aging. These wines then spend a total of 27 months in barrel, before being racked to concrete tanks where they spend another year aging before being bottled and aged even further. Now with 10 years of age, the 2015 Reserva Rioja is shows a panoply of ripe, slightly desiccated red fruit (plum, strawberry) notes, backed up by wonderfully savory, earthy aromatics of mushroom, cedar, tobacco and subtle black licorice. This wine is so classically Rioja, herbaceous and woodsy on the palate, with a long and lingering finish. Considering this wine is almost a full decade old and still singing, this is an incredible value at under $20. Add in that the estate is family owned, and the vines are averaging forty-five years old, you’d be hard pressed to find many other comparable wines at this price point in Rioja.
Price:
$19.99
2015 Suduiraut, Sauternes (375ml)
By: Kerry Kennell | Review Date: 8/21/2025 | Send Email
By: Kerry Kennell | Review Date: 8/21/2025 | Send Email
The 2015 Suduiraut Sauternes is a blend of 94% Sémillon and 6% Sauvignon Blanc, aged 18 months in equal parts new and used oak barrels (3.8 g/L TA, 138 g/L residual sugar). It seamlessly delivers caramelized apricot, orange blossom honey, barley sugar candies, hints of green tea, fresh jasmine, and lightly toasted cashew—all lifted by a bright thread of tangerine zest. Perfectly poised between freshness and opulence, it finishes with waves of honeyed apricot. I picked up a bottle last week on the recommendation of our Bordeaux buyer; after tasting it just now, I immediately went back for another.
2020 Gloria, St-Julien
By: Kerry Kennell | Review Date: 8/21/2025 | Send Email
By: Kerry Kennell | Review Date: 8/21/2025 | Send Email
Composed of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot, 11% Petit Verdot, and 5% Cabernet Franc that aged 14 months in 40% new oak. Incredible pricing aside, the 2020 Gloria was a grin-inducing standout during a recent staff tasting with its soft, silky, and seductive mouthfeel. The flavors are fresh and vibrant—cassis, red-fleshed plum, black cherries, rose petals, with a hint of just-picked herbs bolstered by black tea tannins. A subtle sanguine note on its delightfully lengthy finish makes me glad to be alive—wines like this make my heart skip a beat—a glorious Gloria!
2019 K&L Discovery Series Bordeaux, Pauillac
By: Scott Beckerley | Review Date: 8/20/2025 | Send Email
By: Scott Beckerley | Review Date: 8/20/2025 | Send Email
It is very exciting to taste our very first Discovery series Bordeaux release from my favorite village, Pauillac. Home village to so many magnificent vineyards. It has a textbook Pauillac nose of pencil lead, dark red cassis, bitter cocoa and tobacco. On the palate, quite the mouthful! Rich and well-rounded fruit with additional dose of dark red cassis, black plum, hard black licorice candy and a creamy texture. This after being open (and tried) over two days. It is such a wonderful bargain which you can match with so many foods from a steak sauteed in butter to classic barbecue ribs or a roasted vegetable stew. Don't wait too long to try it and buy it. I'm looking forward to seeing what the other villages of this series offer up as they arrive!
Price:
$29.99
2009 K&L Discovery Series Bordeaux, St-Emilion
By: Scott Beckerley | Review Date: 8/20/2025 | Send Email
By: Scott Beckerley | Review Date: 8/20/2025 | Send Email
This new Discovery Series of Bordeaux (with Italian wines on the way, as well!) is a real treat for affordability and a look at terroir. In the case of this 2009, it's all about old school scents and flavors. There is a nose of deep and dark black cherries, with anise seed, earth, tobacco and a light touch of spearmint. In the mouth, quite rich and easy to drink with baked cherries, creamy oak, some tart tannins at the back of the throat. The finish lingers at the tip of the tongue with dried cranberry flavors. Quite a bit of wine for the price!
Price:
$14.99
2016 Larrivet Haut-Brion Rouge, Pessac-Léognan
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/19/2025 | Send Email
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/19/2025 | Send Email
Reviewing these wines back to back to back is so great, it gives me such a wonderful feel for those more subtle differences between otherwise similar wine and is such a real treat to be able to do. The fruit on this one is definitely higher tones, there's ripe raspberry, red cherry, and really intense sort of dusty cocoa+coffee earthen note in the very back but kind of shoving its way forward. Along with that, I get some rosehips and a little bit of sweet pomegranate in the very back, just bringing everything together and rounding it out. The palate is inky and chewy, but with just a little hint of that sweeter mashed raspberry red fruit in the very front and in the finish. The tannins are nice and already calming down and lining up, integrating themselves very politely. The acidity is really nice, helping to push the whole palate forward and giving it a little bit more fruit on the finish. This is really nice and with a touch more intensity than some of the others I've tried recently.
2019 Latour-Martillac, Pessac-Léognan
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/19/2025 | Send Email
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/19/2025 | Send Email
This has that whole "serious" vibe going on in the nose, there's a lot of immediate depth and complexity and now that it's been open for a while and had time to develop there's a level of perfume and allure that's just second to probably some but not a lot. The nose is just a little kaleidoscopic, there's a shifting sort of perfume, fruit, barrel spice trifecta hitting on all cylinders. The fruit is red and black, ripe and ready with a little bit of something very slightly crunchy in the far background, like someone thought about a cranberry once. The perfume has this kind of pleasant potpourri quality, not at all Granny or cloying, but instead like fresh rose petals, a little touch of dried lavender, and a little bit of slightly wilted violets. The barrel spice is a constant background presence, lovely and dense and layered so expertly, never trying to be the star. The palate is the same and in the same order, rich dark fruit, a lovely dose of florals, and then more striking barrel spice, toast coming into the finish and mixing a bit with a little touch of dried tobacco and herbs, acidity making the whole palate absolutely sing. This is just such an absolute treat, a real gem of a wine that is so well balanced and really intensely deep, showing everything that you want in a regal and classy Bordeaux at a killer price.
2023 Kivelstadt "KC Labs - Never Oaked - Bazzano Vineyard" Russian River Valley Chardonnay
By: Lacie Schwarz | Review Date: 8/18/2025 | Send Email
By: Lacie Schwarz | Review Date: 8/18/2025 | Send Email
While this wine is hazy in the glass, it isn't accompanied by your typical "Natural wine" funkiness. Bright notes of white flowers, Meyer Lemon and green apple on the palate - but what you don't find is any oak - this wine was entirely fermented and aged in stainless steel. Organic practices, indigenous yeasts and limited intervention make this wine perfect for natural wine lovers; fresh fruit, a clean and pristine nose and no "funk" make this wine perfect for everyone else. This wine punches way above its $9.95 price point.
Price:
$9.95
2019 Smith Haut Lafitte, Pessac-Léognan
By: Ryan Moses | Review Date: 8/17/2025 | Send Email
By: Ryan Moses | Review Date: 8/17/2025 | Send Email
When measured against the gold standards of the estate—2009, 2010, 2015, 2020—this 2019 is a wine that must be in the conversation. We’ve adored it since En Primeur, and there’s no shortage of acclaim, including Jane Anson’s 99-point mark that places it shoulder to shoulder with names like La Mission, Latour, and Montrose. The fact that it can still be had at this pricing makes it one of the greatest upside buys from Pessac, and a Grand Vin that is destined for great things.
At the heart of it, the Cathiards and Fabien Teitgen continue to pursue excellence and excel at an incredible rate, and this 2019 is just one piece of evidence in a compelling case that describes the heights of Pessac-Léognan.
There’s a polish to the structure here—tannins are firm but fine, textured, deeply fruited, but refined. The wine moves with precision, gaining volume through the midpalate, and then narrows again into a finish that just won’t let go. It has clarity, depth, and the kind of length that feels both intentional and earned. This is Grand Vin in form and feel—substantial, composed, and just entering the long stretch of its evolution.
2021 Vine Mind Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon McLaren Vale South Australia
By: Rachael Ryan | Review Date: 8/15/2025 | Send Email
By: Rachael Ryan | Review Date: 8/15/2025 | Send Email
Vine Mind is a side project from winemakers Jen Gardner and Colin McBryde of Adelina winery and the Some Young Punks label. As they describe it, Vine Mind allows them to explore different blends and regions, all made in an approachable, ready-to-drink style. The pair met while students at the University of Adelaide, where both earned phDs in microbiology. After many combined years of working at various wineries in the region, they took over the reins at Adelina, where Jen’s parents are the longtime owners and where Jen grew up. Although Adelina is located in the Clare Valley, Jen and Colin also source old vine fruit for the Vine Mind wines from other nearby regions in South Australia, including McLaren Vale. The 2021 Vine Mind Shiraz Cabernet is a classic expression of the famed region. Located about 45 minutes south of Adelaide, McLaren Vale has a warm and dry Mediterranean climate but its proximity to the Gulf of St. Vincent lends a cooling effect to the region. McLaren Vale is also the oldest winemaking region in South Australia, and many of the vines here are decades-old, gnarled survivors. Medium-bodied, with densely packed red plum, currant and blackberry notes, this unoaked blend of Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon is ripe and plush on the palate, reflecting the warmth of the region, yet it has a refreshing lift on the palate.
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2019 K&L Discovery Series Bordeaux, Pauillac
By: Simon Li | Review Date: 8/15/2025 | Send Email
By: Simon Li | Review Date: 8/15/2025 | Send Email
This 2019 Pauillac from our discovery series is something else entirely. The first thing I got was this wave of ripe of black plum and black cherry, giving it a really rich and inviting feel right away. But underneath, that classic cassis and a cool, earthy vibe remind you that it's still a serious Pauillac. What really gets me is the texture; its got this great structure and firm tannins that give it powerful backbone, but it's not aggressive at all. It feels both plush and powerful at the same time. This is one of those bottles that's impressive enough to lay down for few years, but also really good to enjoy it as its young as well. And for this pricing is unbeatable!
Price:
$29.99
2019 K&L Discovery Series Bordeaux, Pauillac
By: Philip Roufail | Review Date: 8/14/2025 | Send Email
By: Philip Roufail | Review Date: 8/14/2025 | Send Email
Our first Discovery Series wine! We're starting with this Bordeaux, then, in the coming months, a Barolo, Cote-du-Rhone, and Champagne! This Bordeaux hails from the world renown left-bank Bordeaux subregion of Pauillac, known for its full-bodied, rich, mineral driven Cabernet Sauvignon dominant blends (this one is 51% Cab, 49% Merlot) , and is from the universally lauded 2019 vintage. The 2019s are cellar worthy and characterized by their power, elegance, and balance. This is a classified Chateau (we don't know which one!) and the pedigree of the vintage screams BIG TIME DEAL for a wine that will age and evolve for the next 20 + years. Old school Bordeaux notes of sweet tobacco, wet stone minerality (from Pauillac's famous gravel soils!), mint, graphite, cassis, dark plum, chocolate, dark cherry, vanilla, earth, and chewy tannins that will round out with a little more age!
Price:
$29.99
2019 K&L Discovery Series Bordeaux, Pauillac
By: Dulcinea Gonzalez | Review Date: 8/14/2025 | Send Email
By: Dulcinea Gonzalez | Review Date: 8/14/2025 | Send Email
This 2019 Pauillac is exactly what Bordeaux should be—classic, honest, and full of character. It hits you first with cassis, blackberry, and that unmistakable graphite note. The tannins are firm but refined, letting the fruit shine without getting bossy.
It’s drinking beautifully now, but has the backbone to go the distance.
Frankly, at this price, you’d be crazy not to stash a few bottles away.
Price:
$29.99
2019 K&L Discovery Series Bordeaux, Pauillac
By: Michael Benoit | Review Date: 8/14/2025 | Send Email
By: Michael Benoit | Review Date: 8/14/2025 | Send Email
This 2019 Pauillac is the first bottling in our new Discovery series, and does it ever deliver! The nose is classic Pauillac, with powerful aromas of blackberry and graphite and hints of cracked black peppercorn. On the palate this wine is still youthful, with rich black plum fruit, and grippy but fine-grained tannins. Hints of tobacco leaf and smoked meat give a preview of what's to come with continued aging. This wine is a great introduction to Pauillac for drinkers just getting into Bordeaux, and at this price, a perfect bottle for burgers on the grill tonight or to cellar and pair with a special steak dinner a few years from now.
Price:
$29.99
2019 K&L Discovery Series Bordeaux, Pauillac
By: Kirk Walker | Review Date: 8/14/2025 | Send Email
By: Kirk Walker | Review Date: 8/14/2025 | Send Email
I love the idea of our discovery series. This series presents an opportunity to learn/discover more about famous wine regions. I think it is appropriate that we start this series off with Pauillac. This is arguably the most important/prestigious subregion of Bordeaux. I cannot think of a better vintage to start with: 2019, which, among all the recent vintages, could be the most charming. This wine is TEXTBOOK Pauillac! That first sip hit my palate, and my first two thoughts were delicious! and Pauillac! The structure and mouthfeel of this wine is the platonic ideal of Pauillac. This is a roadmap to the great wines of the region. And it is at a great value. This is an incredible teaching opportunity; there is a QR code on the back that will deliver your lessons. However, this wine is just delicious, you might open this with the intention of doing some homework, but it is distractingly tasty, and I can see those plans being quickly abandoned. This is something to be enjoyed first and foremost, so I understand if it takes a bottle or two before you get to your lessons. I cannot wait to see what comes next in this series.
Price:
$29.99
2021 Halcon Estate Yorkville Highlands Syrah
By: Ryan Woodhouse | Review Date: 8/13/2025 | Send Email
By: Ryan Woodhouse | Review Date: 8/13/2025 | Send Email
Today we have an incredible offer on one of the most spectacular and singular Syrah's in California. We have long been fans of Halcon here at K&L and this incredible estate is now taking it to the next level under the ownership of Pax Mahle (Pax Wines) and Baron Ziegler (Marine Layer Wines). The estate is located high in the remote and rugged Yorkville Highlands close to Anderson Valley in Mendocino. The vines grow at 2,500 ft elevation in extremely rocky soils of fractured schist and quartz. The nutrient depleted soils and wind exposure means the vines produce tiny yields of thick skinned grapes packed with intense flavor and concentration. Vinification is very low tech and traditional following traditions of the Northen Rhône Valley. Fruit is hand-picked, block by block, fermented using 100% whole-clusters and native yeast. The must is foot-trodden for gentle extraction. The wine is then matured in a mixture of new and seasoned French oak. Right from the first sniff this is an intense wine. Big aromas of potpourri, forest berries, camphor, hints of leather and savory spice tones. Medium-plus bodied with inky concentration and a plush mid-palate of fine but mouth-coating tannins. Fragrant and perfumed, but dense and concentrated at the same time. Dark fruit, mountain chapparal, graphite, and red meat on hot cast iron. A powerful but nuanced wine really showing the special qualities of this world-class vineyard site. No one plants or buys a vineyard at 2,500 ft up a remote, rugged mountain because it's convenient, they do it because the have a conviction that the place can produce something truly special, and that something is plain to see here.
2015 Suduiraut, Sauternes (375ml)
By: Ryan Moses | Review Date: 8/13/2025 | Send Email
By: Ryan Moses | Review Date: 8/13/2025 | Send Email
With near-perfect, best-in-class press, an exceptional vintage, a touch of bottle age, and one of Bordeaux’s premier producers behind it, 2015 Château Suduiraut is easily one of the sharpest buys in collectible wine—and an absolute joy to taste.
Our recently landed parcel comes direct from the estate, and the 375ml format makes it an especially compelling addition to any cellar. I always recommend keeping Sauternes on hand, but if you're looking for an experience that shows the heights of the style—at a price that makes opening a bottle feel easy, and with impeccable provenance—this is it.
Aromatically, it’s a panoply of stone fruit, kiwi, orange blossom, and ever-evolving nuance as it opens in the glass. On the palate, the texture is refined, but the flavor is explosive: grilled pineapple, honeycomb, peach, and Meyer lemon, with a sweetness and acidity in perfect harmony. The balance of botrytis, sugar, and freshness is masterful—rich but never fatiguing, endlessly complex, and deeply layered.
This is a true rival to the greatest Sauternes of the past decade, and I think it might even give Yquem a run for its money in one of the region's great vintages, 2015.
Open it now or cellar it for decades. Either way, if you keep just one Sauternes on hand, make it this one—it punches far above its price and delivers a world-class experience every time.
2020 Gloria, St-Julien
By: Ryan Moses | Review Date: 8/13/2025 | Send Email
By: Ryan Moses | Review Date: 8/13/2025 | Send Email
I think Jane Anson put it best, calling Gloria “St-Julien’s secret weapon” in a 20-year vertical where this 2020 took top billing. If I had any bones to pick, it’s that it was our secret weapon first! Either way, it hardly matters—as long as Gloria keeps delivering incredible value like this.
For an all-too-reasonable price, you get a serious, compelling, and delicious St-Julien with typicité, character, and the structure to age effortlessly for decades. The density of the 2020 vintage shows here in its concentrated texture, deep red-to-black fruits, and a finish lined with fine, mouth-coating tannins wrapped around a fresh core of acidity.
Yet for all that density, it’s immediately rewarding and delicious. I remember it being a star at our UGC tasting a few years ago—a standout even among a roomful of show-stealers. This is one I’ll be thrilled to have in my cellar for years to come, and at this price, it’s all too easy to recommend you do the same. For a top-notch Left Bank gem that hits every mark, 2020 Gloria is a can’t-miss buy.
2022 Nga Waka Pinot Noir Martinborough
By: Rachael Ryan | Review Date: 8/12/2025 | Send Email
By: Rachael Ryan | Review Date: 8/12/2025 | Send Email
Martinborough, located at the bottom of New Zealand’s North Island, has long been regarded as one of the best winegrowing regions in the New World for Pinot Noir and the 2022 Nga Waka is such a classic — and value-oriented — offering from this corner of the world. Balancing vibrant red and black fruit with a distinct savory component and subtle spiciness, this Pinot Noir has bright, refreshing acidity and a plush, easygoing mouthfeel. 2022 was the one of the last vintages produced by longtime Nga Waka winemaker Roger Parkinson, who managed over three decades of harvests at the estate. And while 2022 was a wetter than normal vintage in Martinborough, the free-draining gravel soils of the region, which itself is located on the bench of the Ruamahanga River, handled these conditions with ease. The result is a wine that is ready to drink now, with wide open fruit aromatics and flavors. This is a great choice to pop open on a movie night at home or a casual backyard dinner. Its friendly, approachable style and wide range of food pairing possibilities make this one a crowd pleaser.
Wild Turkey 8 Year Old 101 Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
By: Josh Gelfand | Review Date: 8/12/2025 | Send Email
By: Josh Gelfand | Review Date: 8/12/2025 | Send Email
Guess who’s back… back again… 8 year's back… tell a friend. Not seen in the U.S. since 1992, the 8 Year Old 101 proof has returned from our friends at Wild Turkey. Bruce Russell - the son of Eddie and grandson of Jimmy - is at the helm of this new permanent fixture in the lineup, and it’s a wonderful complement to the standard non-age-statement 101, which is said to be about 6–7 years old. The extra age and more selective barrel choices make this an elevated dram, even on par with some of the Russell’s Reserve releases.
The classic Wild Turkey sweetness and spice are here, but with added depth and richness. The nose offers kettle corn, graham cracker crust, black pepper, cloves, and a touch of orange oil. The first sip pushes that orange oil toward chocolate-covered oranges, joined by spicy pie crust, burnt caramel, and sweet oak in a rich, coating mouthfeel. The finish brings the signature charred oak, baking spices, and vanilla tobacco.
This is everything I love about Wild Turkey: robust without being rough, playful without being gimmicky, and a reminder of how special it is that this family is still doing it right after all these years.
Price:
$39.99
2024 Château Vitallis Mâcon-Fuissé
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/12/2025 | Send Email
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/12/2025 | Send Email
There's something kind of reassuring about sticking your nose in a glass of wine and getting back the exact notes you were expecting to get. There's a really pretty soft green apple, with a little touch of ripe pear, and then a little slice of lemon on top of the whole thing, with just soft and light spice note buried down deep. The palate is clean and delicious, exactly what you want it to be. There's a good level of acidity, and the fruit is all really nice. There's more apple and pear, with a really nice splash of lemon, and a very slightly spiced finish. The palate is mid-rich with a really nice mouthfeel and overall good weight. This is a crazy amount of wine for just $18, and for people who think that Burgundy doesn't have any good values, I point at this most expressively with both hands.
Price:
$19.99
Paladar Estate Grown K&L Exclusive Cask Strength Single Barrel #A22 Añejo Tequila (750ml)
By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 8/11/2025 | Send Email
By: David Othenin-Girard | Review Date: 8/11/2025 | Send Email
This exceptional brand is the brainchild of Edoardo "Lalo" Orendain. He's not resting on his family's legacy and created a new and exciting brand with the help of Rare Character founder Pete Nevenglosky. Together they're pushing the old distillery to new heights. It's particularly interesting to have a single barrel of the family brand on the shelf at the same time - the Arette barrel being selected from proof down samples, while the Paladar drawn straight from the cask having been proofed in advance of aging. Let's go. The color is a striking golden ripe corn (0.4). The nose is expressive and nearly tropical in its aromatic profile offering sweet ripe guava, hints of pineapple and exotic spices. With further aeration a sweet fresh vanilla bean character and a wild flower note poke through the pungent basket of tropical orchard fruits. The palate is surprisingly rich and spicy, with sweet oak, gorgeous velvety texture and a purity of character that's rarely matched in single cask tequila. Not to be overly effusive, but this is the closest we've gotten to the sweet supple single barrel Fortaleza's in modern bottlings. A super secret that absolutely delivers a hugely satisfying experience.
Price:
$84.99
Caves Messias Santola "Crab Wine" Vinho Verde
By: Rachael Ryan | Review Date: 8/8/2025 | Send Email
By: Rachael Ryan | Review Date: 8/8/2025 | Send Email
Fizzy, fresh and fun — what's not to like about the Crab Wine? Clocking in at only 9% alcohol, with the slightest touch of sweetness on the palate, there's a reason why we've kept this wine in stock for over a decade. Simply delicious and dangerously drinkable, this is a crisp, refreshing style of Vinho Verde bursting with zesty lemo, lime and juicy peach that is perfect for sipping by the pool in the sun.
Price:
$9.99
2022 Nga Waka Pinot Noir Martinborough
By: Cary Herrman | Review Date: 8/8/2025 | Send Email
By: Cary Herrman | Review Date: 8/8/2025 | Send Email
A playful rebel in Pinot's clothing - bright red fruit and earthy spice wrapped in an easy, almost careless charm. There's a subtle funk that keeps it interesting, and a surprising weight from it's generous alcohol content, adding warmth without sacrificing freshness. Effortless to drink, dangerously easy to finish, and just the right amount of wild.
2025 TWR (Te Whare Ra) "SV5182" Gewürztraminer Marlborough
By: Cary Herrman | Review Date: 8/7/2025 | Send Email
By: Cary Herrman | Review Date: 8/7/2025 | Send Email
This Gewurztraminer feels like a floral daydream with a candy-coated edge. Think jawbreaker sweetness wrapped in lychee, rose, and spice - bold, bright, and a little eccentric in the best way. It's natural sweetness and intensity make it a perfect match for spicy dishes, where it cools the heat and brings the flavor to life. A wine that's playful, aromatic, and impossible to ignore.
2022 Tormaresca "Torcicoda" Primitivo Salento
By: Orazio Campoli | Review Date: 8/7/2025 | Send Email
By: Orazio Campoli | Review Date: 8/7/2025 | Send Email
From the sun-drenched Salento peninsula in Puglia, the "heel" of Italy's boot, comes this exceptional Primitivo from Tormaresca. This estate represents the Antinori family's passion project in southern Italy, blending their centuries of Tuscan winemaking expertise with the unique terroir of Puglia. "Torcicoda" is a modern, polished expression of Primitivo, sourced from the estate's best vineyards to create a wine with both power and grace.
In the glass, it pours a deep, opaque ruby. The nose is rich and inviting, bursting with aromas of ripe blackberry, plum jam, and black cherries, layered with sweet notes of vanilla, cocoa, and a hint of cinnamon from its time in oak.
On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, velvety, and smooth, with plush tannins that coat the mouth. The dark fruit flavors are concentrated and jammy but beautifully balanced by a subtle acidity that keeps the wine from feeling heavy. The finish is long and warm, with lingering notes of sweet spice and dark chocolate. This is a perfect companion for hearty dishes like barbecue ribs, braised lamb shanks, or aged, hard cheeses.
2018 Sportoletti "Villa Fidelia" Rosso
By: Orazio Campoli | Review Date: 8/7/2025 | Send Email
By: Orazio Campoli | Review Date: 8/7/2025 | Send Email
The 2018 Sportoletti "Villa Fidelia" Rosso highlights the refined and refined nature of Umbrian wines which represent the most excellent red wines of Central Italy. The Sportoletti family presents this wine by 70% merlot, 20% cabernet sauvignon, 10% cabernet franc while upholding their dedication to quality and local character. The vineyards of this blend are located in the Assisi area of Italy where the clay-limestone soils and temperate climate allow for slow and balanced ripening.
The wine presents itself in a deep ruby color when held against the light. Aromatic scents of black cherry along with blackberry and cassis meet with violet and graphite and vanilla and sweet spices. Forest floor scents and tobacco notes emerge subtly in the wine.
This full-bodied Villa Fidelia shows velvety texture together with ripe tannins and vibrant acidity that keeps the dark fruit flavors fresh. The plum and blackcurrant and dark chocolate flavors are balanced by cedar and clove notes before a long-structured finish.
This wine complements roasted lamb and aged Pecorino as well as hearty pasta meals and requires 5 to 7 years of age. A beautiful Umbrian red wine that harmoniously unites intense character with refined elegance.
Price:
$14.99
2018 Sportoletti "Villa Fidelia" Rosso
By: John Archuleta | Review Date: 8/5/2025 | Send Email
By: John Archuleta | Review Date: 8/5/2025 | Send Email
This one is for sure for my value driven crowd - this wine completely over-delivers for the price.
Rich with a tiny bit of rustic characteristics, this Bordeaux blend hits all the right notes for my new world wine lovers.
Dense but soft, this wine has aromatics of earth, touch of leather, and dried plums and blueberries - on the palate you get a little savory herbs, well integrated oak and baking spice, and grippy but approachable tannin. You want a wine to go with some steak, prime ribs, or fatty pork belly? This is the wine that'll take on all three no problem.
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$14.99
2018 Ink Grade "Andosol" Napa Valley Proprietary Red
By: Mariah Mier | Review Date: 8/5/2025 | Send Email
By: Mariah Mier | Review Date: 8/5/2025 | Send Email
"Ink" is an appropriate name for this wine—plush, full-bodied midnight black fruit from the zinfandel mingles with the silky yet robust tannins of the cabernet sauvignon. This is a lot of wine for the price!
Bresolin "Cabernet Sauvignon " DOC Montello Colli Asolani
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/5/2025 | Send Email
By: Aaron Hughes | Review Date: 8/5/2025 | Send Email
This is just absolutely great Cabernet Sauvignon for this price. The fruit on the nose is just a little creamy, the oak is super well integrated into wine. Ripe blackberry, black cherry, just a little bit of dried and fresh herbs. The palate has such a really nice uplifted fruit, black cherry and blackberry are the foremost, but there's also a little strawberry as well, a little bit of those dried and fresh herbs, and then a nice and lingering finish with just a little bit of barrel spice on there. This is such an approachable and easy to drink bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, and it's really delicious. It's definitely not a huge or explosive bottle, but it's got everything you really need, and it delivers it so pleasantly. As I'm sitting here writing, the finish is still going, and there's just this lovely little toast on the tip of my tongue. I might have to get a few of these.
2018 Ink Grade "Andosol" Napa Valley Proprietary Red
By: Ryan Woodhouse | Review Date: 8/5/2025 | Send Email
By: Ryan Woodhouse | Review Date: 8/5/2025 | Send Email
Back in 2018 when Gaylon Lawrence purchased the iconic Heitz Cellars the deal included some 425 acres of vineyards around Napa Valley. One such vineyard was Ink Grade. Originally planted in 1873 by Theron Ink, this mountainside has long been recognized as a special place to grow grapes. The site was so distinctive the team decided to create a new brand based entirely around this historic and dramatic vineyard. Situated on the eastern slopes of Howell Mountain (parts of the vineyard are just below the official AVA boundary and thus labelled as Napa valley). The vineyard has numerous blocks many carved into the hillside as steep terraces. It's a wild, remote, mountainous site that produces dramatic wines. Under Heitz family stewardship the site has been farmed using meticulous organic forming methods since the 1980s. This continues today with CCOF and Biodynamic certification. Since 2018 winemaker Matt Taylor has sought to define this unique terroir by capturing the raw, rugged land in refined elegant wines. The wines are fermented with native yeast, aged for 24 months primarily in large format oak casks and foudre with another portion going into top quality new French oak. The 2018 Andosol Red Blend combines mountain-grown Zinfandel and Cabernet Sauvignon. The Zin brings deep brambly fruit, blackberry and kirsch. The Cabernet adds big, bold structure, hints of cassis, Bay laurel, and graphite. The wine is a distinctive mineral core from the volcanic tufa soils, and some savory mountain chapparal elements add more intrigue. As with establishing any new brand, despite top pedigree and getting great scores from the critics, the winery was a little long on inventory and made us a sweet deal on this wine! We're offering it at more than 50% off the original price and at least $15 a bottle less than elsewhere!
Kanosuke Single Malt Japanese Whisky (700ml)
By: Will Blakely | Review Date: 8/5/2025 | Send Email
By: Will Blakely | Review Date: 8/5/2025 | Send Email
One of the most exciting whisky releases of the last year, Kanosuke finally comes to an approachable price point, and I could not be happier. The quality on display here is unrivaled in Japanese whisky at this cost. It even gives single malt Scotch a run for its money. The nose starts strong with big oak and vanilla, but there's more nuance than apparent at first whiff. White flowers, tropical fruit, candied citrus and confectioners sugar lie just beneath the heavy base notes. The palate is soft but structured, offering far more complexity than you could expect from relatively young whisky. Peaches drizzled with condensed milk, sweet grain, toasted oak and a kick of spice make the first impression. But a thread of saline and earthy umami from the coastal aging and the recharred shochu casks counter the sweeter flavors and round out the whole package. What keeps me coming back though is the elegance and purity of it. This will strike some fans of Japanese whisky as odd or strong, but I believe it hits all the hallmarks that separate Japanese malt from Scottish. It's perfectly composed without a single note out of place. I dare say it will convert some Scotch drinkers who thought Japanese whisky too light or too expensive, because at the end of the day, it's just exceptional whisky.
Price:
$79.99
2022 Laroque, St-Emilion
By: Ryan Moses | Review Date: 8/1/2025 | Send Email
By: Ryan Moses | Review Date: 8/1/2025 | Send Email
Laroque has become one of the most exciting properties in St-Émilion in recent years, somehow flying under the radar despite its chart-topping scores and exceptional value. In 2022, they were awarded with three 97-point scores from major publications, spanning traditional and modern reviewers, rivaling cult-caliber releases from the Right Bank. The QPR here is simply astounding and certainly in rare air.
The estate's signature style is a pure, layered, and undeniably delicious expression of the Right Bank—at once weightless yet remarkably defined and deep. Aromatically, it bursts with florals, black fruit, and fresh earth, while the palate is coated in dark red tones, plum, and cherry. Bright acidity enlivens the remarkable texture, which carries both density and vibrancy. Everything is in perfect harmony, and it feels as though they've somehow raised the bar with their 2022. While this wine will benefit from another five years in bottle and evolve effortlessly over the following two decades, it's hard not to be immediately enchanted by the 2022 Laroque—even just after release.
Angel's Envy "K&L Exclusive" Cask #SB-241112 Private Select Port Finished Kentucky Straight Bourbon (750ml)
By: Josh Gelfand | Review Date: 7/31/2025 | Send Email
By: Josh Gelfand | Review Date: 7/31/2025 | Send Email
Lincoln Henderson started a revolution. The legendary distiller, who passed through the vaunted halls of Jack Daniel’s and created Woodford Reserve, launched one final product in his retirement. Had it come from anyone else, the bourbon world might have rejected it outright. But when he said that a bourbon (legally aged first in new charred oak) could still be called bourbon after finishing in another type of cask, the industry had to take note. And so, the finishing revolution in American whiskey was born.
(To be fair, this was old news in Scotland, but in the U.S., it was a bold move.)
Angel’s Envy became a sensation by layering a warm, fruity, yet elegant Port cask finish onto a classic, robust bourbon foundation. This particular K&L exclusive cask takes that foundation and turns up both the proof and the intensity.
The nose is nutty and jammy, swirling with fresh cacao nibs, plums, and burnt caramel. On the palate, it bursts open with roasted peanuts and deep red fruit, like biting into a PB&J crafted by a Michelin-starred chef. The finish lingers with earthy spice, dried dates, and espresso beans.
This is a stellar expression of an already exceptional whiskey, and an essential bottle for anyone who appreciates the beauty of wine-cask-finished bourbons.
Price:
$89.99
2021 Elena Fucci “Titolo” Aglianico del Vulture
By: Orazio Campoli | Review Date: 7/31/2025 | Send Email
By: Orazio Campoli | Review Date: 7/31/2025 | Send Email
The 2021 Elena Fucci “Titolo” is a benchmark for Aglianico del Vulture, a wine that captures the fiery soul of its volcanic terroir with incredible elegance and precision. This isn't just another powerful southern Italian red; it's one of the most consistently excellent and profound wines in the country, often called the "Barolo of the South" for its structure and age-worthiness.
The wine comes from a single, high-altitude vineyard of 70-year-old vines planted on the black, mineral-rich soils of Mount Vulture. This unique terroir gives “Titolo” its signature notes of dark cherry, blackberry, and licorice, intertwined with complex layers of volcanic ash, graphite, and savory herbs. The palate is dense and structured, with firm yet polished tannins and a vibrant acidity that brings energy and balance, leading to a long, mineral-driven finish.
Her approach is a masterful blend of tradition and modernity, using French oak to polish Aglianico’s powerful tannins without masking its pure, site-specific character.
This is a wine built for the cellar, a bottle that will reward patience for 15-20 years or more. If you open it now, give it a long decant and pair it with hearty fare like braised lamb, wild boar, or aged pecorino. A must-have for any serious collector of Italian wines.
2019 K&L Discovery Series Bordeaux, Pauillac
By: Kerry Kennell | Review Date: 7/30/2025 | Send Email
By: Kerry Kennell | Review Date: 7/30/2025 | Send Email
Our 2019 Discovery Series Pauillac captivates with dark notes of cassis, vanilla, rich tobacco, licorice, and graphite, culminating in a ferrous finish interwoven with plum and blackberries. Pair it with a sizzling, juicy bone-in ribeye, fresh from the grill, crowned with a pat of butter or crumbles of blue cheese.
Price:
$29.99