To all of my friends, family and fans,
Have a great holiday season & a wonderful new year!
Top Ten Wines from Marquee in 2009
1. The 2004 SilverWings Old Vines Vincenzo - 91 Points from Wine Spectator, rich and multi layered this wine is unfiltered and deserves decanting to understand its nuances! Keith Brien, Winemaker for the Marquee Collection and Silver Wings calls this wine his 5th child and we are eager to taste the new vintage later this year! PS - This wine also won Best of Show at the 2009 Wine & Spirits Wholesalers Convention.
2. The 2007 Quattro Leoni Barbera D'Asti - What a delictious wine, it pairs well with everything and has a rich and robust flavor. Marquee is proud to have added this wine to our portfolio in 2009 and are excited to hear what the critics think of our inaugural vintage - thanks Castello Di Gabiano!
3. The 2008 Caligiore Reserve Malbec - WOW, WOW, WOW - Marquee's addition to the Top 100 Wines of 2009 in Wine & Spirits Magazine, this is what Old Vine Malbec can taste like when it is brought gracefully forward with minimal use of oak. Gustavo Caligiore has an upcoming feature in Sommelier's Journal - watch for it!
4. The 2008 Clemen Reserva Vinho Verde - Yes, Vinho Verde's can be graceful and deserve the title, Reserva. A winner in several contests this year for both the 2007 and 2008 vintages, this wine has just a tiny hint of spritz to tingle on your tongue!
5. The 2007 Marquee Classic GSM - Grenache, Shiraz, and Mourvedre blended together that is much more complex than you would ever imagine for a wine that retails for under $12.00. Marquee is proud to announce this is our Number 1 selling wine for all of 2009, taste it and you will understand why!
6. The 2008 Staccato Malbec / Cabernet Sauvignon - Only with a company like Marquee setting out to find the best bargains the wine world has to offer will you be able to find an 88 Pt. gem (Wine & Spirits) like Staccato that retails for under $10.00! Medium bodied and a delicious blend with the hints of Mocha and dark berry fruits.
7. The 2006 Old Hands Monastrell - Monastrell or Mourvedre as it is know in other parts of the world is king down in the Southern Spanish region of Yecla and Marquee is delighted with our 87 Pt. Best Buy from Wine Enthusiast that delighted them enough they sent out an email blast to over 250,000 readers showing praise of this wine. A great value at $10.99, Marquee is looking for good things from our friends at Bodegas La Purisima in 2010!
8. The 2008 Marquee Classic Chardonnay - Can I say delicious, too many times? Just landing in December this wine is outstanding for its vibrant and fresh tropical flavors with just a hint of oak aging. Well worth its $11.99 price tag, I foresee some great press on this wine in the coming months, kudos to our friends in Victoria on a smashing follow-up to the Best Buy, 89 Pt. 2006 Chardonnay!
9. The 2007 Caligiore Reserve Bonarda - Several times this year I have heard the call and explained the story of "What is Bonarda ?"This up-and-coming grape in the last five years has started to be be vinified on its own in Argentina. For the wine intellectuals this grape is said to be what in the USA is called "Charbono"; it is known for having a medium red body focused on raspberries with smooth tannins. Just our luck, the Caligiore family has vineyards of Bonarda that are over thirty years old, keep them coming Gustavo!
10. The 2006 Trapio Old Vine Monastrell - Fitting that this list should start and end with big old vines, our partners at Bodegas La Purisima found, in their vineyards, a set of vines that gave a distinguished flavor a bit different than the rest of their surrounding brethren... the difference, these vines never faced Phyloxera and are therefore on their original Monastrell rootstock! Taste the wines like they did 100 years ago by enjoying Trapio! Marquee has just sold out of our first vintage (2004) and we are hearing all of the gold medals and great scores coming in on this wine already. 90 Points in the Penin Guide to Spanish Wines, this is a blockbuster wine!
I must lament at this point that 2009 has been an outstanding year for Marquee and we are very thankful for all of our partners, fans and customers! We will keep bringing you the best wines we can in 2010 and have some outstanding vintages just on release from our wine-making teams across the world!
Have an great day!
Christopher J. Cribb, CSW
GM - General Manager
Marquee Artisan Wines - http://www.marquee.com/
Blog – marqueewines.blogspot.com
No comments:
Post a Comment