Wines of the Week: 
2018 Merry Edwards Russian River Sauvignon Blanc Normally $49.99–$42.49 15% Off This Week ONLY! 2018 Lignier Michelot Morey-St-Denis Bourgogne Rouge Pinot Noir Normally $49.99–$42.49 15% Off This Week ONLY! * * * About the Wines of the Week: 2018 Merry Edwards Russian River Sauvignon Blanc Normally $49.99–$42.49 15% Off This Week ONLY!   About the Winery One of California’s first woman winemakers, Merry Edwards began her career at Mount Eden Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains in 1974. She went on to become the founding winemaker at Matanzas Creek in 1977 and remained there until 1984. For the next decade, Merry consulted for numerous wineries, large and small, in Oregon and many diverse appellations of California. In 1997, family and friends joined Merry to found Merry Edwards Winery, with a focus on producing Pinot Noirs with a sense of place from Russian River Valley and Sonoma Coast. Living her dream, she and her husband, Ken Coopersmith, now manage five estate vineyards: Coopersmith, Cresta d’Oro, Flax, Georganne and Meredith. In 2001, a barrel-fermented Sauvignon Blanc blend was added to the portfolio. In 2013, Merry’s 40th year as a winemaker, not only was she inducted into the Culinary Institute of America’s Vintners Hall of Fame, she also won the coveted James Beard Foundation Award for Best Wine, Spirits or Beer Professional in the United States, becoming just the fourth woman to win the honor. 
About the Wine As a young winemaker in the 1970s, Sauvignon Blanc was not Merry’s first choice among varietals. Therefore the challenge in making the first Sauvignon Blanc in 1979 was to create a wine Merry could personally enjoy. Fast forward to 2021 and the team at Merry Edwards still continues to produce the same style that took many years to refine. Barrel fermentation, lees-stirring regimes, inclusion of the Sauvignon Musqué clone in the blend, French oak selection and strains of special yeast were all areas of experimental focus. The aim has been to elevate the varietal to the stature it deserves, as one of the two great white wines of the world. The result has been lauded as a stunning wine–unique among its peers. The translucent, aurora-gold hue of this wine predicts what’s to come in the glass. Mouthwatering and luscious, its aroma overflows with tree-ripened fruit–nectarine, quince, peach and Fuji apple–as well as a hint of floral perfume and tropical notes of ripe, juicy pineapple, passion fruit, papaya and mango. Sophistication has come early for this wine with a strong impression of developing minerality. In the mouth, it’s round, lush and vibrantly balanced across the palate. Richness and weight counterbalance bright acidity supported by flavors of tangerine, lemon zest, candied orange peel and sweet pink grapefruit. The finish is luxurious, lingering on well beyond any rational expectation. * * * 2018 Lignier Michelot Morey-St-Denis Bourgogne Rouge Pinot Noir Normally $49.99–$42.49 15% Off This Week ONLY!  
About the Winery Domaine Lignier-Michelot has been part of the landscape of Morey St. Denis since early in the twentieth century, but like so many of its neighbors throughout the Côte d’Or, during most of that time the domaine was content to sell off its entire production to négociants. The current head of this fine eight hectare domaine, Virgile Lignier, who joined his father Maurice at the domaine in 1992, is the fourth generation to run the family property, and was instrumental in the family beginning to offer their wines for sale in bottles. Not coincidentally, 1992 was the first year that Domaine Lignier-Michelot began to estate bottle their wines and sell them directly. In the late 1990s Virgile succeeded his father as head of the domaine, with 2000 being the first vintage that he vinified completely on his own. Lignier-Michelot has holdings in Chambolle-Musigny and Gevrey-Chambertin at the villages level, a Morey St. Denis “Rue de Vergy” (also AC) and a bevy of top-notch Morey premier crus including parcels in the vineyards of Aux Charmes, Chenevery and Façonnières. Their fine lineup is rounded out by a parcel of vines in the grand cru of Clos de la Roche, bringing the domaine’s production to approximately one thousand cases per year. Virgile Lignier is meticulous in the vineyards, where he routinely prunes aggressively to limit yields, and seeks to be as natural as possible when confronting viticultural challenges in the vineyard. His goal is that which was often stated by Henri Jayer: to produce the finest fruit possible from which to work with so that the wine can make itself as much as possible. He completely de-stems the grapes and allows the cool must to macerate for five or six days prior to the onset of fermentation (again, à la Monsieur Jayer). The wines are then aged in varying percentages of new oak for a year to fifteen months (village wines see about twenty percent new wood, premier crus about one-third, and the Clos de la Roche is raised in anywhere from eighty to one hundred percent new oak, depending on the quality of the vintage), racked into tank for another three months to allow the wines to fall brilliant, and are bottled unfined and unfiltered. 
About the Wine A miniscule site of only 1.1 ha (2.72 acres), the vines for this wine were planted in the 1960s. Situated on deeper clay soils typical of the Chambolle-Musigny Village appellation, the vines are harvested with organic practices. After harvest, about 50% of the grapes remain whole-cluster; followed by a cold maceration and an indigenous yeast fermentation. Aged for 12 months in barrel (20-30% new), unfiltered.The style of the Lignier-Michelot wines is dramatic and opulent, with sappy cores of fruit, excellent expressions of terroir, and the balance and structure to allow graceful aging in the cellar. The relatively recent history of selling all their production in bottles has kept the domaine’s profile relatively low key at the present time, which translates into outstanding opportunities for good value. This wine offers dark fruits such as dark cherries and blackberry on the nose, with layers leading into crushed iris petals. The palate is sweet and candied on the entry, quite plush and forward, leading to a slightly saccharine finish.
* * * Cocktail Recipe of the Week: 
Green Tea Sangria Ingredients: 1 bottle Von Winning Sauvignon Blanc
4 cups water
6 bags green tea
1/3 cup honey
3 lemons , sliced
20-25 mint leaves Directions: In a large pot or kettle bring 4 cups of water to a boil.
After boiling, take off heat, and add in 6 green tea bags. Let steep for 5 minutes.
Remove tea bags, and stir in 1/3 cup of honey. (Let cool for 30 min-1 hour before mixing sangria.)
When the tea is slightly cooled add it to your pitcher along with 1 bottle of white wine, lemon slices, and fresh mint leaves. Refrigerate for 2-4 hours before serving! Cheers and Enjoy! * * * Snack of the Week: 
Lark Fine Foods Pistachio Cherry Sable
Lark’s Pistachio Cherry Sable' features a traditional French shortbread staring crunchy pistachios, dried tart cherries and rimmed with sparkling sugar. * * * A Note on the COVID Resurgence
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