Highly Allocated Gems

  • Yves Boyer-Martenot 2020 Meursault Les Tillets

    Yves Boyer-Martenot 2020 Meursault Les Tillets

    $99.99

    Burgundy France
    Wine Advocate 90 Rating
    The 2020 Meursault Les Tillets opens with notes of crisp green apple, freshly baked bread, white flowers and crushed mint. Medium-bodied, satiny and elegant, it’s lively and precise, with a pretty core of fruit and a mouthwatering finish. R2-1

  • Zorzal Wines 2016 Eggo Tinto de Tiza

    Zorzal Wines 2016 Eggo Tinto de Tiza

    $19.99

    Tupungato Mendoza Argentina
    Wine Advocate 95 Rating
    The incredible 2016 Eggo Tinto de Tiza was cropped from one of the coolest years in recent times, which provided a slow ripening of the grapes and resulted in wines with higher natural acidity. This wine is now exclusively Malbec from Gualtallary. It fermented with 10% full clusters and indigenous yeasts in egg-shaped concrete vats, where the wine matured for ten months. It’s super aromatic, with notes of thyme, oregano, spices and something earthy, like the countryside after the rain. It’s young and has an explosive, vibrant palate with electric acidity and chalky tannins. 2016 could very well be the finest vintage to date, one of those vintages that will be legendary. This is just unbelievable for the price.

  • Zuccardi 2014 Malbec Concreto 

    Zuccardi 2014 Malbec Concreto 

    $39.99

    Mendoza Argentina
    Wine Advocate 95 Rating
    The wild nose of the new 2014 Concreto Malbec transported me to the Northern Rhône (Côte-Rôtie), or even better the Valais mountains in Switzerland. It is fermented and matured in concrete vats, hence its name. The grapes come from a very calcareous soil in Altamira in the Uco Valley. The nose mixes the violet aromas and those wild herbs, rockrose and spices, but also a saline side, and a mix of black olives and smoke. Raspberry leaf perhaps? There is a different character, they have taken away all that gives sweetness to the wine, searched for chalky soils, used part of full clusters and only cement was used for the fermentation and élevage. The wine is dry, but the tannins are sweet. There is very good length and persistence here. A naked Malbec. I believe this wine might have a beautiful evolution in bottle and it would be even better in a fresh vintage. Groundbreaking Malbec! An awesome value for money too! 6,000 bottles produced. R8-1

  • Zuccardi 2017 Malbec Concreto   

    Zuccardi 2017 Malbec Concreto   

    $34.99

    Mendoza Argentina
    James Suckling 96 Rating
    This is a unique wine for Mendoza with a cool-fruit and serious slate character. Undertones of dried herbs and bark. Full body, integrated fruit and tannins. Wet earth, too. Reminds me of the reds in Spain's Galicia, but so new in Argentina. Drink now but better in 2020. SP40-3