Upcoming Beer & Wine Tastings December 7-8

Please join us at the i.m.Wine tasting bar every Friday and Saturday from 1-7pm; this week we are tasting:

Laurent-Perrier Brut LP (Champagne, France)
Founded in 1812, Laurent-Perrier has been avant-garde in creating unique and elegant champagnes for nearly two hundred years with Laurent-Perrier Brut L-P as the standard-bearer for the house style. Chardonnay is the dominant grape variety in Brut L-P. Its proportion is unusually high for a non-vintage Champagne blend, being double the average with wines from more than 55 Grand Cru vineyards make up the blend (10% to 20% of which consists of reserve wines, though this can be higher in some years). Brut L-P reflects the fundamental essence of their Champagnes.  The color is a pale golden hue, with fine and persistent bubbles. The nose is fresh and delicate, showing good complexity with hints of citrus and white fruit. Brut L-P's light style has led the way to making Champagne the ideal aperitif drink.
Price: $39.99   Special Price: $35.99   Case Price: $33.99 

Laurent-Perrier Brut Rose (Champagne, France)
This salmon-pink rosé Champagne is truly remarkable for its highly expressive bouquet, stemming from very careful preservation of fresh fruit aromas which occur during the winemaking. Using skin contact with 100% Pinot Noir grapes, also known as the saignée method, Laurent-Perrier's know-how and attention to quality produces a finely crafted rosé with both depth and freshness. It has become the benchmark for rosé Champagne around the world.  A wine is stunning deep orange-pink color, with a fine array of bubbles with an abundance of bright, fresh and intense notes of raspberries, strawberries and black cherries on the nose. The first impression on the palate is that of fresh fruit, followed by a full-bodied yet elegant mouth-feel.   If this isn’t one of your favourite wines, it soon will be.
Price: $69.99   Special Price: $62.99   Case Price: $59.49

2006 Chardonnay “Adams Road”, Vass Felix (Margaret River, Australia)
Vasse Felix was the first commercial vineyard and winery to be established in the Margaret River region of Western Australia. The vineyard took its unusual name from an early event in the district. Vasse was a French seaman who drowned last century when his longboat overturned near the site of Busselton while exploring the coastline on the ship "Geographe" under Captain Freycinet. Paradoxically, Felix is the Latin word for fortunate or luck. Thus the name refers to a favoured place in Australia discovered by the French. A crisp, elegant, Chablis-like white offering notes of green tea, apricots, crushed rocks, and white currants. It is a well-made, crisp, zingy Chardonnay with terrific fruit intensity, and no evidence of wood despite the fact that part of the cuvee spent time in French oak.
Price: $16.99   Special Price: $15.29   Case Price: $14.44 

2005 Langmeil Shiraz/Grenache/Mourvedre “Three Gardens” (Barossa Valley, Australia)
The Langmeil estate was originally founded in 1844. The first Shiraz vines, planted at that time, still produce premium Shiraz today, making Langmeil the site of the oldest producing vineyard in the Barossa Valley. Today, plantings at Langmeil total 14.5 hectares, including Cabernet Sauvignon and Grenache. Langmeil Winery's philosophy is to produce 100% Barossa premium quality wine made from varieties that excel here in one of the oldest wine producing regions in Australia. The 2005 Three Gardens is a combination of 46% Shiraz, 44% Grenache, and 10% Mourvedre from 15- to 130-year-old vineyards. This elegant blend exhibits notes of anise, wood smoke, blackberries, cherries, pepper, and earth. Surprisingly fruity and rich with wonderful intensity as well as layers of flavor.
Price: $14.99   Special Price: $13.49   Case Price: $12.74 

2005 Shiraz/Grenache “Wallace”, Glaetzer Vineyards (Barossa Valley, Australia)
The Glaetzer philosophy focuses simply on the production of small-volume, super premium wines. The company holds a firm belief that the wines are made in the vineyard – a combination of the French notion of terroir combined with Australian vineyard site knowledge. The 2005 Wallace is 80% Shiraz from 65-year-old vines and 20% Grenache from 90-year-old bush vines. It spent 14 months in seasoned French and American oak. It exhibits a lovely perfume of cedar, tobacco, damp earth, black cherry and blueberry. This leads to a concentrated, structured wine with ripe blue and black fruit flavors, well-concealed tannin, and a long finish.
Price: $22.99   Special Price: $20.69   Case Price: $19.54  

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