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Butaud Tempranillo

C.L. Butaud Farmhouse Vineyards Tempranillo 2021. 
C.L. Butaud Farmhouse Vineyards Tempranillo 2021.   Click here for tasting notes.

C.L. Butaud Farmhouse Tempranillo 2021

Texas isn’t the first place that comes to mind when most people think about wine, especially “serious” high-quality wine. And yet, Texas is fifth in the nation in both wine production and consumption. The history of grape growing in the state goes back at least to the 1660s, when Franciscan monks planted Mission grapes adjacent to their missions.* Today, Texas is home to a number of American Viticultural Areas, or AVAs; the two most prominent are the Texas High Plains AVA around Lubbock in northwestern Texas, and the Texas Hill Country AVA in central Texas west of Austin.

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Butaud Cease & Desist

C.L. Butaud Cease & Desist Red Wine Blend 2021. 
C.L. Butaud Cease & Desist Red Wine Blend 2021.   Click here for tasting notes.

Butaud Cease & Desist Red Wine Blend 2021

Texas isn’t the first place that comes to mind when most people think about wine, especially “serious” high-quality wine. And yet, Texas is fifth in the nation in both wine production and consumption. The history of grape growing in the state goes back at least to the 1660s, when Franciscan monks planted Mission grapes adjacent to their missions.* Today, Texas is home to a number of American Viticultural Areas, or AVAs; the two most prominent are the Texas High Plains AVA around Lubbock in northwestern Texas, and the Texas Hill Country AVA in central Texas west of Austin.

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Butaud Blanc de Noir

C.L. Butaud Blanc de Noir.
C.L. Butaud Blanc de Noir. Click here for tasting notes.

C.L. Butaud Blanc de Noir 2023

Texas isn’t the first place that comes to mind when most people think about wine, especially “serious” high-quality wine. And yet, Texas is fifth in the nation in both wine production and consumption. The history of grape growing in the state goes back at least to the 1660s, when Franciscan monks planted Mission grapes adjacent to their missions.* Today, Texas is home to a number of American Viticultural Areas, or AVAs; the two most prominent are the Texas High Plains AVA around Lubbock in northwestern Texas, and the Texas Hill Country AVA in central Texas west of Austin.

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Lombardi Chardonnay Russian River Valley

Lombardi Russian River Valley Chardonnay 2022.
Lombardi Russian River Valley Chardonnay 2022. Click here for tasting notes.

Lombardi Russian River Valley Chardonnay 2022

Tony Lombardi was born into a family of small business owners, and grew up in Sonoma County. His first job in the wine business came in 1998 when he joined the hospitality team at Clos Du Bois Winery, located in Geyserville, California.

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HALL Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

HALL Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2019.
HALL Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2019. Click here for tasting notes.

HALL Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

Kathryn Walt Hall has a most impressive curriculum vitae. To touch on just a few of the high points, she is the proprietor of HALL Wines and WALT Wines [family businesses she has been involved with for over thirty years], was assistant city attorney in Berkeley, California, worked as an attorney and businesswoman in Dallas, Texas, and has served on numerous non-profit and institutional boards, with an emphasis on issues related to social care and mental health. From 1997 to July 2001, Ms. Hall served as the United States Ambassador to Austria. In the midst of this, together with her husband Craig she has raised four children.

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Hall Cabernet Sauvignon 2012

Kathryn Hall Cabernet Sauvignon 2012
Kathryn Hall Cabernet Sauvignon 2012. Click here for tasting notes.

 Kathryn Hall Cabernet Sauvignon  2012

Kathryn Walt Hall has a most impressive curriculum vitae. To touch on just a few of the high points, she is the proprietor of HALL Wines and WALT Wines [family businesses she has been involved with for over thirty years], was assistant city attorney in Berkeley, California, worked as an attorney and businesswoman in Dallas, Texas, and has served on numerous non-profit and institutional boards, with an emphasis on issues related to social care and mental health. From 1997 to July 2001, Ms. Hall served as the United States Ambassador to Austria. In the midst of this, together with her husband Craig she has raised four children.

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HALL Sauvignon Blanc

HALL T Bar T Ranch Sauvignon Blanc 2012.
HALL T Bar T Ranch Sauvignon Blanc 2012. Click here for tasting notes.

HALL T Bar T Ranch Sauvignon Blanc 2012

Kathryn Walt Hall has a most impressive curriculum vitae. To touch on just a few of the high points, she is the proprietor of HALL Wines and WALT Wines [family businesses she has been involved with for over thirty years], was assistant city attorney in Berkeley, California, worked as an attorney and businesswoman in Dallas, Texas, and has served on numerous non-profit and institutional boards, with an emphasis on issues related to social care and mental health. From 1997 to July 2001, Ms. Hall served as the United States Ambassador to Austria. In the midst of this, together with her husband Craig she has raised four children.

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Charpentier Champagne

Charpentier Champagne Tradition Brut.
Charpentier Champagne Tradition Brut. Click here for tasting notes.

Charpentier Tradition Brut Champagne

For one hundred and fifty years, the Charpentiers have been cultivating their vineyards in the Champagne region on the south hillsides of the Marne valley.  Léonidas Charpentier ran a farm at Saulchery, a village near to Charly sur Marne. His business flourished very well, because his most important customers were the coach drivers who pulled their boats with the help of horses along the river La Marne to bring their goods to Paris. This is the reason why the carriage became the house logo. The coach is driving through the gate of Time, from the past into the future, from tradition to modernity.

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Padis Cabernet Sauvignon

Padis Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 2016.
Padis Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 2016. Click here for tasting notes.

Padis Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

Padis Vineyards is located in the picturesque hillsides of the Oak Knoll District in the heart of Napa Valley. It was founded by jewelers Steve and Judy Padis with a single barrel in 2007 that was bottled in large format and donated to charity auctions. A year later, their first commercial vintage was released.

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Lombardi Pinot Noir Russian River

Lombardi Pinot Noir Russian River Valley Sonoma County 2021.
Lombardi Pinot Noir Russian River Valley Sonoma County 2021.
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Lombardi Pinot Noir Russian River Valley 2021

Tony Lombardi was born into a family of small business owners, and grew up in Sonoma County. His first job in the wine business came in 1998 when he joined the hospitality team at Clos Du Bois Winery, located in Geyserville, California.

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Inglenook Cabernet Sauvignon

Inglenook Cabernet Sauvignon 2018. <a href="#taste">Click here for tasting notes.</a>
Inglenook Cabernet Sauvignon 2018. Click here for tasting notes.

Inglenook Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

Inglenook was founded in 1879 by Finnish sea captain Gustave Niebaum. By 1887, he had amassed a total of 1100 contiguous acres, marking the inception of the Inglenook legacy. After his death and during the scourge of Prohibition the winery was shuttered. After repeal, Niebaum’s widow, Suzanne, reopened Inglenook and brought in viticulturist and enologist John Daniel Jr., Niebaum’s great-nephew, to upgrade the winemaking system.

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Zinio Rioja

Terroir de Zinio Tempranillo Reserva Rioja 2018.
Terroir de Zinio Tempranillo Reserva Rioja 2018. Click here for tasting notes.

Terroir de Zinio Tempranillo Reserva Rioja 2018

Located in the heart of the renowned Rioja Alta region, Bodegas Patrocinio is a cooperative winery that has been a vital part of the Spanish wine landscape since 1985. Bodegas Patrocinio crafts wines using traditional Rioja grapes like Tempranillo, Garnacha, Mazuelo, and Graciano, which are available under various brands: Señorío de Uñuela, Zinio, Sancho Garcés, and Lágrimas de María.

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Anchored Roots Cabernet Sauvignon

Anchored Roots Cabernet Sauvignon 2020.
Anchored Roots Cabernet Sauvignon. Click here for tasting notes.

Anchored Roots Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

Eric and Amy Gale are the owners and sole full-time employees of Anchored Roots, Door County, Wisconsin’s newest winery, founded in 2020.

The couple make an ideal front-of-house/back-of-house duo. Amy grew up in Milwaukee, with hospitality at the forefront of her career path. Her initial focus was event planning, from non-profit fundraisers and catering, to corporate events and weddings. This was followed by experience in tasting room management at Airfield Estates in Prosser, Washington.

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Anchored Roots Ledge Blanc 2023

Anchored Roots Ledge Blanc 2023.
Anchored Roots Ledge Blanc. Click here for tasting notes.

Anchored Roots Ledge Blanc 2023

Eric and Amy Gale are the owners and sole full-time employees of Anchored Roots, in Door County, Wisconsin, founded in 2020.

The couple make an ideal front-of-house/back-of-house duo. Amy grew up in Milwaukee, with hospitality at the forefront of her career path. Her initial focus was event planning, from non-profit fundraisers and catering, to corporate events and weddings. This was followed by experience in tasting room management at Airfield Estates in Prosser, Washington.

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