{"id":3670,"date":"2016-03-18T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2016-03-15T09:28:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:28:39","slug":"what-to-look-for-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/what-to-look-for-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Look For In March"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Peltier-Station-Lodi-Petite-Sirah-2009\"<\/a>In March, The International Wine of the Month Club\u2019s<\/a> Premier Series offers four special wines. \u00a0The 2009 Peltier Station Lodi Petite Sirah<\/a><\/u>, a robust, mature red from California\u2019s once-again fashionable Lodi AVA, leads the way. \u00a0If you have never had a Peltier wine, now is the time to try Peltier\u2019s beautiful Petite Sirah.<\/p>\n

Paired with Peltier\u2019s scrumptious Petite Sirah is the 2014 Tenuta Le Calcinaie Vernaccia di San Gimignano<\/a><\/u>, a certified organically produced white wine of incomparable elegance and purity.\u00a0 Rare among Tuscan white wines for its flavor, freshness, and longevity, Vernaccia di San Gimignano owes its 800-year reign as the region\u2019s most lauded white wine to the predominance of the relatively rare Vernaccia clones that thrive in the environs of San Gimignano.<\/p>\n

Hailing from the golden hills of California\u2019s Calaveras County, the 2012 The Big Mouth Red<\/a> <\/u>is produced almost exclusively from Syrah.\u00a0 It offers a captivating aroma of black fruits, licorice, and violets, along with copious quantities of velvety-smooth berry flavors to provide great drinking pleasure.<\/p>\n

Rounding out this month\u2019s Premier Series wines is the 2014 Denis Dutron Macon-Fuiss\u00e9<\/a><\/u> from France\u2019s Maconnais region in southern Burgundy.\u00a0 With a brilliant, sun-kissed robe, an enticing bouquet of freshly picked mountain apples, acacia flowers, and freshly baked bread, and a wealth of soft, creamy flavors that meld beautifully with the wine\u2019s pure natural fruit and refreshing minerality, this enticing white wine offers everything classic white Burgundy from Maconnais has to offer.<\/p>\n

\"Domaine-du-Vieux-Lazaret-Chateauneuf-du-Pape-Rouge\"<\/a>The International Wine of the Month Club\u2019s Collectors Series<\/a> is proud to offer three special wines in March.\u00a0 Our first March feature is the outstanding 2012 Domaine du Vieux Lazaret Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape<\/a><\/u> from Jerome Quiot, a leader in Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape<\/a>.\u00a0 His 2012 Domaine du Vieux Lazaret Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape underscores the great quality of the 2012 vintage in Provence.\u00a0 His classic 2012 Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape offers exceptional aromatics in the form of deep black fruits, violets, Proven\u00e7al garrigue <\/em>and savory herbs, which serve to introduce a trove of ripe berry flavors infused with hints of Asian spices, rose petal, and black pepper. \u00a0Full-bodied, yet perfectly balanced, the 2012 Domaine du Vieux Lazaret Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape is the most beautiful young Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape we have tasted from this excellent estate.<\/p>\n

Benovia is one of California\u2019s finest producers of Chardonnay, as the 2013 Benovia Russian River Chardonnay<\/a><\/u>, this month\u2019s Collectors Series white wine feature, will attest.\u00a0 Presenting itself as sunshine in a glass, the 2013 Benovia Russian River Chardonnay sparkles with a glint of the sun\u2019s golden rays, possesses an enticing aroma of butter, oak, coconut, pear, spring flowers, and spice, and offers a palate-pleasing cornucopia of flavors in the form of orchard fruits, spice, and minerality. \u00a0Who can ask more of a Chardonnay?<\/p>\n

The 2011 Antucura Vista Flores Grand Vin<\/a><\/u> rounds out this month\u2019s Collectors Series offerings.\u00a0 Antucura is one of Argentina\u2019s great estates and Vista Flores Grand Vin is the winery\u2019s flagship wine.\u00a0 A Bordeaux blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Malbec that spent 16 months in French oak barrels, the 2011 Antucura Grand Vin offers copious quantities of rich, deep-down blackberry, plum, currant, and spice flavors that fill the mouth and satiate the palate.\u00a0 It weighs in at over 15% alcohol but never loses its elegance or panache.\u00a0 Most Bordeaux wines should offer so much and be so good.<\/p>\n

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Salud!
\nDon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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