Plus we have Clos Erasmus!
Saturday October 30th, 2010
11am - 8pm
International Wine Celebrity / Importer and Charlottean Eric Solomon is well known for bringing "the next big thing" to the United States - and his new import, La Peira, might very well be "the next big thing". We've been selling these wines whenever we can find them over the last year and the consensus from you all has been "How do we get more?!?!" So this weekend is the very first time we will be able to showcase the entire lineup of La Peira wines! Their flagship wine "La Peira" has an annual worldwide production of only 1,200 bottles (compare that to the 420,000 bottle production of Caymus Cabernet) and even their less expensive offerings are offered only in minuscule quantities. That is why we are more than excited to continue to be one of the only places in the country to showcase these wines for you.
Here is just a little of what the wine world has been saying:
I want to put forth a terrific wine recommendation to you all. It is a wine I had never heard of before, but one I surely won’t forget any time soon.
My friend Eric Solomon was kind enough to gift me a bottle of “La Peira”. I believe (although I am not 100% sure) it is a cuvée of Syrah, Grenache and Mourvedre and just an absolutely delicious and complex wine in every sense.
It has exactly what I cherish in a wine and what I strive for with my own wines – a sunny disposition, full, ripe flavors, but nothing at all over the top here, nothing two-square or clumsy, but rather just a delightful potpourri of dark berry fruit and maybe some dried flowers….if memory serves correctly. Beautifully nuanced and layered, thought provoking and detailed, but rich and mouth-coating at the same time. What a wine.
I have no idea what it costs, but just about whatever it is –buy it!
One of best new wine discoveries for me this year so far.
- Manfred Krankl (Winemaker and Owner of Cult Wine Legend Sine Qua Non)
"The flagship wine from this new venture is easily going to be the next great global cult wine. Think Clos Erasmus or Masseto; that’s the level of quality that this wine brings!"
- Gary Vaynerchuk
"This wine will ring changes on your palate for a decade. The deep alluvial fan that is the basis for this site is only barely tilted, as it might be in St. Helena or Rutherford, St.-Estephe or Pomerol ... and these comparisons will not seem inapt once you experience the quality of La Peira’s wines."
- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
"The most apt analogy, perhaps, is the publisher’s slush pile—that legendary stack of unsolicited manuscripts where, sandwiched between laborious first novels, eccentric diets, and the childhood reminiscences of the elderly, the house reader dreams of finding a golden text to wave at cynical seniors. So with the samples delivered to the homes of those who write about wine. All deserve a taste, most a note, but I’ve never come across one that rearranged my inner pantheon in the way that truly great wine can. Never, that is, until a few weeks ago. Then it was that a relatively ramshackle package of boxes arrived from the Languedoc containing 11 bottles and a text. The bottles (cask samples, in the main) had beautiful, austerely classical labels with puzzling, hard-to-pronounce names. No UK importer, let alone retailer. Just an apologetic e-mail, a few days earlier, from one of the wine’s creators, Rob Dougan, alluding to their presence a year before at a tasting in Bordeaux that I’d been unable to attend. Enough waffle. These are the best unsolicited samples anyone has ever sent me."
-Andrew Jefford
If that wasn't enough to get you excited, you can check out a great video by clicking here. Now...after all of that if you are not even the least intrigued to come be one of the first to experience these wines then I am not sure what else we can do!
Here are two of the wines we will be featuring:
2005 La Peira
Only 1,200 bottles produced
Regular Price: $110.00
Winestore Price: $75.00 (net)
Save 31%
Expensive...yes. A wine you might never forget...yes.
2005 Las Flors de La Peira
Only 4,400 bottles produced
Regular Price: $55.00
Winestore Price: $39.99 (net)
Save 27%
Hyperbole aside, this is one of the best wines we have tasted in 2010, regardless of price. Buy one to lay down in your wine cabinet, buy one for your loved one, buy one for your boss, or just buy one because this is just brilliant wine from a brilliant vintage at a great price.
2008 Les Obriers de la Peira
Regular Price: $26.00
Winestore Price: $19.99
Save 23% (Save an extra 5% on six bottles or an extra 10% on 12 bottles or more)
This stuff flat out rocks!
CLOS ERASMUS
If you made it this far into the newsletter you deserve to know we have some Clos Erasmus for Sale!
Made by Charlotte resident Daphne Glorian Solomon and coveted by wine lovers across the globe, we have the following vintages available:
2000 Clos Erasmus
2001 Clos Erasmus
2005 Clos Erasmus
Please call us at 704-442-4024 to order yours today!
