Wines of the Week: 
2016 Denis Durantou Saintayme Saint Emilion Grand Cru Merlot Normally $34.99–$29.74 15% Off This Week ONLY! 2016 Coho Wines Stanly Ranch Los Carneros Pinot Noir Normally $54.99–$46.74 15% Off This Week ONLY! * * * About the Wines of the Week: 2016 Denis Durantou Saintayme Saint Emilion Grand Cru Merlot Normally $34.99–$29.74 15% Off This Week ONLY! 
About the Winery Since taking over the family vineyards in 1985, Deis Durantou has built reputation as one of the Bordeaux’s greatest winemakers. His flagship property, Eglise Clinet, has become one of the appellation’s benchmark estates, regularly compared to greats such as Petrus, Le Pin, Lafleur. Durantou is known as the “genius of Pomerol”, both for the tremendous quality of his wines as well as for his extraordinary precision in both the vineyard and the cellar. 
About the Wine Saintayme is 100% merlot made from a nine hectare parcel of 35-year old vines in Saint Etienne de Lisse, immediately to the east of the village of St Emilion. St. Etienne is a slightly cooler part of the St Emilion appellation but has the same limestone, clay, and gravel soils that underlie many of the appellation’s top chateaux. Indeed, the area hosts famed chateaux including Valandraud and La Fleur Cardinale. Saintayme is vinified in small, temperature-controlled stainless steel vats and then undergoes malolactic fermentation in those same vats in order to allow for greater control of the yeast. The wine is subsequently aged in 30% new French oak for 14 months, with approximately 3,000 cases made total. One of St Emilion’s greatest bargains, the vin de garde has the ability to age and improve for at least a decade. Critical Acclaim “This is very dense and beautiful yet its agile and exciting. Blueberries, chocolate, and walnuts. Full to medium body and beautiful length. Juicy center palate of fruit.”–92-93 Points, James Suckling
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2016 Coho Wines Stanly Ranch Los Carneros Pinot Noir Normally $54.99–$46.74 15% Off This Week ONLY! 
About the Winery The vineyard sits just above the tidal marshes that flow into San Pablo Bay (which sits above the San Francisco Bay). Most afternoons during the growing season the warm to hot temperatures farther north in the Napa Valley act like a magnet drawing the cool breezes and fog from the bay. These cooling temperatures will began to bring relief to the vines in the afternoon and often not roll out until mid-morning the next day. This cooling blanket creates an ideal environment for the Stanly Ranch Pinot Noir to develop the spicy aromatics and complex black cherry. 
About the Wine Originally planted in the 1870’s, Stanly Ranch is the eastern most vineyard on the Napa side of the Las Carneros appellation. The original vineyard of 300 acres was the first to achieve critical acclaim for Carneros wines when it garnered medals from viticultural fairs sponsored in 1888. Louis M. Martini first purchased Carneros grapes in the 1930s from the Stanly Ranch, a part of which had miraculously survived the phylloxera infestation of the 1880s. In 1942, Martini purchased 200 acres of the Stanly Ranch and six years later he began Pinot Noir & Chardonnay clonal experimentation.
COHO has been making a Stanly Ranch Pinot Noir since our first vintage in 2002. We have been fortunate to purchase the oldest existing section of the vineyard that was planted around 1970. The Pinot Noir clone of this section, originally from Pommard in Burgundy, is named for Louis Martini who identified it during his years of field work as most suitable for the Carneros soils. As this portion of vineyard is going into decline because of age, we began in 2008 incorporating other sections that are planted with Dijon clones.
* * * Cocktail Recipe of the Week: 
Jack the Ripper Ingredients: 4 oz Bulleit Barrel Strength Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey 1/2 fresh squeezed orange 2 oz cinnamon simple syrup caramel salt Ingredients for cinnamon simple syrup: one cup water one cup sugar 5 cinnamon sticks Directions for cinnamon simple syrup: Bring sugar and water to boil in a medium saucepan. When sugar has dissolved add cinnamon sticks and remove from heat. Allow to steep until mixture is cool. Remove cinnamon sticks and store in the fridge until ready to use. Directions for Drink: Rim a martini glass with caramel and dip into salt. Set aside. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake, and strain into pre-rimmed glass. Cheers and Enjoy! * * * Snack of the Week: 
Biellese Chorizo Secco
A Spanish-style Chorizo, so tasty you will think you are hangin' in Barcelona! This fine ground Berkshire pork is spiced with hot pepper and paprika, and then it is cured/aged until firm.
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