2020 Simpatico Cellars, Fanatic Albariño — As many of you know, Simpatico was founded by our wonderful former shop intern, Cassie Wistrom, along with two classmates from their time at the Wine Academy at South Seattle College. Continue reading
Category Archives: Collector’s Club
Collector’s Club – July 2022
2019 Cantina Tombacco, Pecorino Terre di Chieti — Cantina Tombacco dates back to 1919, when Giovanni Battista Tombacco began to focus on winegrowing on his farm in Italy’s northern Veneto region. Continue reading
Collector’s Club – June 2022
2020 Mylonas, Savatiano — Mylonas is a tiny, self-described “micro winery” in Attica, north of Athens in Central Greece. Continue reading
Collector’s Club – May 2022
2020 Tre Donne, Donna Chiara Arneis — Back in the 1980s, sisters Antonella, Rosanna, and Daniella Lequio had to work hard to convince their reluctant and skeptical father that they could take over the family winery (rather than “just marry a good winemaker”). Continue reading
Collector’s Club – April 2022
2017 Macchialupa, Campania Aglianico — This wine comes from Campania, in the boot heel of southern Italy. The winery is located at around 450 meters elevation in the mountainous, interior Beneventano subregion and their focus is on local indigenous grapes. Continue reading
Collector’s Club – March 2022
2020 J. Mourat, Collection Val de Loire Blanc — The Loire Valley stretches from Sancerre in the east to Muscadet, where the river meets the Atlantic. Continue reading
Collector’s Club – February 2022
2020 Nortico, Alvarinho — We usually associate Albariño with the fresh, seafood-friendly wines from northeast Spain’s Rías Baixas region. Continue reading
Collector’s Club – January 2022
2018 Finca Torremilanos, Los Cantos, Ribera del Duero — Created in 1903, Torremilanos is the second oldest winery in Ribera del Duero, in the Castilla y León region of northern Spain. Continue reading
Collector’s Club – December 2021
2017 Celler Cal Pla, Black Slate, Porrera — The Priorat zone is located in northeast Spain’s Catalonia region and is coveted for its unique decomposed slate soil known as llcorella which adds a singular minerality to the concentrated, powerful wines produced there. Continue reading
Collector’s Club – November 2021
2017 Mas des Volques, “Esus,” Duché d’Uzès — Nicolas Souchon was a young oenologist working at Clos Saint-Jean in Châteauneuf-du-Pape when he decided to start his own winery. Continue reading