Your July Wine Club Selections Are Here!
Get ready to uncork something special! Your July Wine Club selections have arrived, and we’re thrilled to share another curated collection designed to elevate your summer sipping. This month, we’ve handpicked a diverse array of wines that are perfect for warm evenings, backyard BBQs, and all your sun-drenched adventures. Dive in to discover the stories behind these bottles and what makes them ideal for your glass this season.
Elephant Hill Sauvignon Blanc
The Elephant Hill Estate Sauvignon Blanc is planted at the coastal Te Awanga vineyard where the cooling sea breeze and free draining shingle soils provide fantastic quality grapes for making this wine. This is a sophisticated Sauvignon Blanc with aromas of citrus blossom, lemon verbena and wild herbs that are perfectly balanced with flavors of lime and gooseberry.
PRA ‘OTTO’ Soave Classico
For years Soave has had a dubious reputation thanks to the poor quality wines that were produced to meet growing demand in the 1960s and 70s. But starting in the 80s a small number of producers – Graziano and Sergio Pra among them – focused on producing wines of superior quality using fruit grown on the region’s hillside vineyards instead of the high-yielding plains. This bottling, which is made using 100% Garganega, features lively aromatics of white flowers, ripe kiwi and green apples along with a medium-bodied palate that adds minerality and crisp acidity to the mix.
Prelius Cabernet Sauvignon
The nose is expressive, displaying aromas of blackberry, blueberry, and a hint of cinnamon rounding out with seductive oak notes. Color is bright with an intense gem-like quality paired with dark violet highlights. It is a full-bodied wine that displays solid structure and complexity; exhibiting dark red fruit and a lingering finish.
Domaine Equis ‘Equinoxe’ Croes-Hermitage
Mineral-accented dark fruit and floral aromas are energized by a jolt of spicy black pepper. Fleshy, juicy and nicely concentrated, offering finely etched boysenberry, cherry and floral pastille flavors that tighten up on the back half. Densely packed yet energetic as well, finishing with sharp clarity, smooth tannins and strong persistence. Made from fruit grown on the granitic soils of Saint-Jean-du-Muzols
Edi Kante Terrano
Terrano is a variety with centuries of history on the Karst plateau in Italy and Slovenia, mentioned as far back as the fourteenth century, when vini terrani was offered to one Conte di Lozo, an ambassador of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Medium-bodied and intensely aromatic, this wine provides an abundance of red berries and lip-smacking acidity—hallmarks of table-ready reds from cooler climates.
DuMOL Syrah
This is a glorious expression of cool climate coastal Syrah, and certainly the sleeper/insider bottling of the entire vintage. The wine has a kaleidoscopic range of aromas and flavors that really elevates it, and it’s the qualitative equal of Eddie’s Patch to be released this fall. The wine combines hillside vineyards in opposing northeast and southwest corners of the appellation, and blends soils of volcanic- and marine-origin and heritage vine selections. It’s the perfect diverse combination. A run of three warm days with low humidity in late-September brought a flush of ripeness in these two vineyards, yet the nights remained cool, so the fruit was able to retain all its complex aromatic character. A thread of white and black pepper and floral violets constantly weaves through the wine both aromatically and as a flavoring component. That’s the heart of the wine and the secret to its complexity. The flavors are precise, not too heavy, not too fruity but brimming with nuance and detail.